[Early adhesive ileus].

For a period of eight years 158 patients with adhesive ileus, 23 of whom (14.6 per cent) with early adhesive ileus, have been treated at the surgical clinics of the Pazardzhik branch of the Higher Medical Institute in Plovdiv. Most frequently intestinal obstruction occurred after appendectomy--43.5 per cent of the cases. In 69.6 per cent of the patients it developed until the end of the second week. In five patients conservative treatment was effective. The other 18 patients were operated, with case fatality rate 16.7 per cent.