Acute Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction with Feeding Intolerance in Critically Ill Patients: A Study according to Gut Wall Analysis

Table 3

Comparison of the efficacy of nonsurgical treatment and ileostomy between the groups.

Characteristics	All	ACPO-NT	ACPO-T
Nonsurgical treatment	105/138 (73.91)	47/48 (97.91)	58/90 (64.4)	<0.001
Conservative treatment	52/138 (37.68)	30/48 (62.50)	22/90 (24.44)	<0.001
Neostigmine	26/86 (30.23)	14/18 (77.78)	12/68 (17.64)	<0.001
Colonoscopic decompression	27/59 (45.00)	3/4 (75.00)	24/56 (42.86)	0.318
Surgery	27/33 (81.81)	1/1 (100)	26/32 (81.25)	0.212

ACPO-NT: acute colonic pseudo-obstruction without obvious thickening of the colonic gut wall; ACPO-T: acute colonic pseudo-obstruction with obvious acute thickening of the colonic gut wall.
All values are expressed as effective/total (efficacy %).