ALLMedicine™ Small-bowel Obstruction Center

Aug 9th, 2022 - Small-bowel obstruction (SBO) after cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS/HIPEC) is a common complication associated with re-admission that may alter patients' outcomes. Our aim was to characterize and investigat...

Jul 29th, 2022 - BACKGROUND Intussusception, which is the prolapse of one section of intestine into another, is a common cause of small-bowel obstruction in pediatric patients. Bezoars are concretions of ingested foreign material. Trichobezoars, which are bezoars ...

May 20th, 2022 - Background Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), first described by Gauderer in 1980,[1] is a method of placing a tube into the stomach percutaneously, aided by endoscopy. PEG tube placement is one of the most commonly performed endoscopic pr...

May 20th, 2022 - Background Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), first described by Gauderer in 1980, [1] is a method of placing a tube into the stomach percutaneously, aided by endoscopy. PEG tube placement is one of the most commonly performed endoscopic p...

May 20th, 2022 - Background Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), first described by Gauderer in 1980, [1] is a method of placing a tube into the stomach percutaneously, aided by endoscopy. PEG tube placement is one of the most commonly performed endoscopic p...

May 7th, 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...

Dec 27th, 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 12th, 2022 - A loop ileostomy is a common procedure used to divert fecal matter from anastomotic sites after abdominal surgeries. Major complications from creation and subsequent closure of a temporary loop ileostomy include: stoma retraction, stoma prolapsed,...

May 13th, 2020 - In rectal cancers, the overall survival will benefit strongly if a negative incisional margin is reached. In order to pursue a negative margin, APR, expecially the extralevator abdominoperineal excision (ELAPE) which introduced by Holm et al had b...

Dec 30th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A simple scoring system can prevent unnecessary abdominal-pelvic computed tomography (APCT) in the emergency department (ED) for patients with Crohn's disease (CD), according to researchers in Israel. Writing in the Jou...

Jan 13th, 2020 - Ileus is the most common early complication of RC. The most common late complications of RC are small-bowel obstruction and ureteroenteric anastomotic stricture. Other common complications following RC include the following: Wound infection Sepsis...

Oct 10th, 2019 - A pilot program that aims to optimize the care of patients with malignant bowel obstruction is associated with longer survival and shorter cumulative hospital length of stay in the first 60 days after a malignant bowel obstruction diagnosis, accor.

Jan 9th, 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...

Jan 9th, 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...