Figure 1.

Potential patients from 2005 to 2015 at the Medical University of South Carolina were screened using the ICD-9 code: 560.82. Forty-eight patients with Ogilvie's syndrome were identified. Ten patients were excluded because they had a maximal bowel diameter <9 cm and 1 patient was excluded due to incidental discovery of colonic obstruction during unrelated laparotomy.