History and Objectives: In order to set up educational and research objectives, personal specifics of patients with intestinal obstruction and the underlying reason for the disease and its outcome, the present study was undertaken on patients referred to the Pour-Sina hospital of city of Rasht during 1996-1998.

Materials and Methods: The present study is conducted on existing data from patients referred to the hospital from city of Rasht and other surrounding cities of Guilan province.

Results: From 176 cases of obstruction, 36% were female and 64% were male and the age of patients were from 1 to 70 years. The most prevalent type of obstruction was sigmoidal volvulus (18%) and hernia (18%). 55% of cases had obstruction of intestine. Results were presented on the basis of patient’s records and obstruction patterns.

Conclusion: The causative factors were different from other studies. Analytical determination of causes and underlying factors leading to the disease is recommended therefore the resulting information will be used in future experimental clinical studies.