Obstrucción intestinal alta secundaria a íleo biliar. Un reto diagnóstico en el adulto mayor.

Gallstone ileus is a rare pathology and it arises more frequently in the elderly as a complication of cholelithiasis. It is a disease in which a stone from the biliary tree conditions mechanical obstruction with dilatation and subsequent inflammation of intestinal loops. Its clinical presentation is usually non-specific, resulting in a diagnostic challenge it is accompanied by pain and abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting and alteration of the evacuatory rhythm. Treatment generally requires a surgical approach in order to prevent the development of other complications. We present the clinical case of a male patient, elderly, who attends the Japanese Bolivian Gastroenterology Institute of Cochabamba, Bolivia, with a nonspecific presentation of the clinical picture after a previous hospitalization that did not resolve the initial picture and whose diagnosis required performance of extended imaging studies, such as contrastenhanced computed tomography, for subsequent surgical resolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]