Meconium ileus is often the first sign of cystic fibrosis.

Meconium ileus has a significant risk of intestinal perforation.

Meconium ileus was first described in 1905 by Karl Landsteiner.

This leads to the disorder termed meconium ileus.

The presence of meconium ileus is not related to the severity of the cystic fibrosis.

Karl Landsteiner first describes Meconium ileus.

The meconium sometimes becomes thickened and congested in the ileum, a condition known as meconium ileus.

Symptoms often appear in infancy and childhood, such as bowel obstruction due to meconium ileus in newborn babies.

None of the patients with 3849+10 kb CT had had meconium ileus or had liver disease or diabetes mellitus.

It is also seen in bowel obstruction with secondary perforation, as in Hirschprung disease, midgut volvulus, meconium ileus and intestinal atresia.

DIOS was previously known as meconium ileus equivalent, a name which highlights its similarity to the intestinal obstruction seen in newborn infants with cystic fibrosis.

In the 19th century, Carl von Rokitansky described a case of fetal death with meconium peritonitis, a complication of meconium ileus associated with cystic fibrosis.

Meconium ileus should be distinguished from meconium plug syndrome, in which a tenacious mass of mucus prevents the meconium from passing and there is no risk of intestinal perforation.

In such sense, this does not include motility disorders that result from structural abnormalities, and, therefore, some mechanical obstructions are misnomers, such as gallstone ileus and meconium ileus, and are not true examples of ileus.