ALLMedicine Small-bowel Obstruction Center

May 5th, 2020 - Small-bowel obstruction is a common cause of abdominal pain and accounts for a significant proportion of hospital admissions. Radiologic imaging plays the key role in the diagnosis and management of small-bowel obstruction as neither patient prese...

Jan 31st, 2020 - Small-bowel obstruction (SBO) and volvulus as a result of ventriculoperitoneal shunting are a rare phenomenon, especially when resulting in bowel necrosis. The authors report the rare event of SBO, bowel strangulation, and necrosis in a pediatric ...

Dec 13th, 2019 - An 18-year-old woman with a history of hollow visceral myopathy presented with a small-bowel obstruction. High-dose opioid analgesia was required subsequently during hospital admission. She suffered two episodes of documented fasting hypoglycaemia...

Nov 20th, 2019 - Small-Bowel Obstruction Secondary to a Trichobezoar in a Meckel's Diverticulum in a Patient with Rapunzel Syndrome.|2019|Otten MJ,Charehbili A,Duinhouwer LE,|

Oct 27th, 2019 - A 52-year-old man with known hereditary angio-oedema (HAE) presented with a 2-day history of progressive severe abdominal pain, distension, nausea, vomiting and constipation. CT of his abdomen and pelvis showed small-bowel obstruction and ascites....

May 5th, 2020 - Small-bowel obstruction is a common cause of abdominal pain and accounts for a significant proportion of hospital admissions. Radiologic imaging plays the key role in the diagnosis and management of small-bowel obstruction as neither patient prese...

Aug 4th, 2015 - The diagnosis and treatment of small-bowel disorders is challenging because of the length of the small intestine, its anatomy, and the lack of appropriate tools. However, the introduction of video capsule endoscopy (VCE) and deep enteroscopy (DE).

Dec 26th, 2012 - Small-bowel obstruction (SBO) represents as many as 16% of surgical admissions and more than 300,000 operations annually in the United States. The optimal strategies for the diagnosis and management of SBO continue to evolve secondary to advances ...

May 5th, 2020 - Small-bowel obstruction is a common cause of abdominal pain and accounts for a significant proportion of hospital admissions. Radiologic imaging plays the key role in the diagnosis and management of small-bowel obstruction as neither patient prese...

Jan 31st, 2020 - Small-bowel obstruction (SBO) and volvulus as a result of ventriculoperitoneal shunting are a rare phenomenon, especially when resulting in bowel necrosis. The authors report the rare event of SBO, bowel strangulation, and necrosis in a pediatric ...

Dec 13th, 2019 - An 18-year-old woman with a history of hollow visceral myopathy presented with a small-bowel obstruction. High-dose opioid analgesia was required subsequently during hospital admission. She suffered two episodes of documented fasting hypoglycaemia...

Nov 20th, 2019 - Small-Bowel Obstruction Secondary to a Trichobezoar in a Meckel's Diverticulum in a Patient with Rapunzel Syndrome.|2019|Otten MJ,Charehbili A,Duinhouwer LE,|

Oct 27th, 2019 - A 52-year-old man with known hereditary angio-oedema (HAE) presented with a 2-day history of progressive severe abdominal pain, distension, nausea, vomiting and constipation. CT of his abdomen and pelvis showed small-bowel obstruction and ascites....

Feb 11th, 2019 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Surgical intervention reduces the risk that adhesive small-bowel obstruction (aSBO) will recur, whether it's done at the index episode or during recurrent episodes, researchers say. "Adhesive small bowel obstruction is ...

Jan 8th, 2019 - A 76-year-old woman is admitted to the hospital because of abdominal discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal distention. She is diagnosed with a small-bowel obstruction. She stated that she had undergone a cholecystectomy several years ago, bu...

Feb 14th, 2018 - JACKSONVILLE, FLA. – Octogenarians with small-bowel obstruction are about seven times more likely to have open than laparoscopic surgery, but the minimally invasive approach in these patients has been found to reduce their hospital stays and risk.

Oct 21st, 2017 - Bariatric surgery is safe and feasible in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with a low risk of postoperative complications vs. controls, according to results of a recent cohort study.

May 7th, 2017 - PHILADELPHIA – In surgery for small-bowel obstruction, laparoscopy is more likely to result in bowel injury than is open surgery but with ultimately better outcomes overall. This means that surgeons should proceed with “considerable caution” when.