ALLMedicine™ Small-bowel Obstruction Center

Dec 27th, 2022 - Interventions for malignant small bowel obstruction (MSBO) may be limited by extent of peritoneal disease, rendering surgical or traditional endoscopic methods (i.e. luminal stenting or decompressive gastrostomy) unfeasible. We demonstrate the nov...

Nov 29th, 2022 - Background Adhesions are bands of scar tissue that form between organs. In the abdomen, they form after an abdominal surgery or after a bout of intra-abdominal infection (ie, pelvic inflammatory disease, diverticulitis). More than 95% of patients ...

Nov 29th, 2022 - Background Adhesions are bands of scar tissue that form between organs. In the abdomen, they form after an abdominal surgery or after a bout of intra-abdominal infection (ie, pelvic inflammatory disease, diverticulitis). More than 95% of patients ...

Nov 29th, 2022 - Background Adhesions are bands of scar tissue that form between organs. In the abdomen, they form after an abdominal surgery or after a bout of intra-abdominal infection (ie, pelvic inflammatory disease, diverticulitis). More than 95% of patients ...

Nov 18th, 2022 - Background Peritoneal adhesion formation is a common consequence of any operation or intra-abdominal inflammatory process (eg, pelvic inflammatory disease [PID], diverticulitis, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis). It is estimated that intra-abdomi...

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...