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Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction

"Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A type of ILEUS, a functional not mechanical obstruction of the INTESTINES. This syndrome is caused by a large number of disorders involving the smooth muscles (MUSCLE, SMOOTH) or the NERVOUS SYSTEM.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 30 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1998 and 2016 and 2021 and 2023
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.