Anatom3DProximal part of ileum
Pars proximalis ilei · Počáteční část kyčelníku
Digestive system
Looks like
The first stretch of the ileum, following on from the jejunum, in the middle and lower belly.
What it does
Absorbs nutrients and water; the ileum has more lymph tissue (Peyer patches) than the jejunum.
Keeping it well
Mainly a descriptive region; a Meckel diverticulum, present in about 2%, sits on the ileum usually within 60 cm of its end.
Related conditions
- Acute mesenteric ischaemia (gut stroke)
- B12 & folate deficiency
- Bowel obstruction
- Coeliac disease
- Crohn's disease
- Food poisoning
- Gastroenteritis
- Giardiasis
- Intestinal worms & schistosomiasis
- Intussusception & pyloric stenosis
- Iron deficiency
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Lactose & food intolerance
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Necrotising enterocolitis
- Neuroendocrine tumours (carcinoid)
- Radiation injury
- Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)
- Typhoid & cholera
- Volvulus (twisted bowel)