ALLMedicine™ Short-bowel Syndrome Center

Nov 19th, 2021 - PE-20: Development of a Consensus Parenteral Nutrition Weaning Algorithm for Paediatric Patients with Short-bowel Syndrome Responding to Teduglutide Therapy.|2021|K D,J Y,K M,J F,C O,|

Oct 27th, 2021 - Medical Care In general, strict medical management currently has no role in benign small-bowel tumors. Patients with suggestive abdominal pain, particularly if associated with evidence of anemia or intermittent obstruction, should be referred for ...

Aug 10th, 2021 - Patients with short-bowel syndrome and intestinal failure (SBS-IF) require parenteral support (PS) and may need long-term home-care support. This survey assessed the impact of care provision on adult caregivers of adult patients receiving PS for S...

Jul 23rd, 2021 - For the first time, we reported experiences with an intestinal rehabilitation unit (IRU) from a country without home parenteral nutrition (HPN). We included patients with a diagnosis of intestinal failure (IF) since the establishment of our IRU fr...

Jul 18th, 2021 - Salvage of the existing ileal pouch is favored during re-do ileal pouch anal anastomosis if the pouch is not damaged after pelvic dissection and there are no other mechanical reasons that may necessitate construction of a new pouch. Excision of th...

May 12th, 2017 - Popular Toys With Overlooked Risks In a previous Medscape article, we related our concern that popular adult novelty items containing neodymium magnets (so-called "supermagnets") present an underappreciated danger to children. At that time, severa...

May 12th, 2017 - Popular Toys With Overlooked Risks In a previous Medscape article, we related our concern that popular adult novelty items containing neodymium magnets (so-called "supermagnets") present an underappreciated danger to children. At that time, severa...

Nov 1st, 2016 - Intestinal failure, the inability of the gut to maintain nutritional homeostasis,1 is a complication of vascular thrombosis, inflammatory bowel disease, radiation enteritis, obstruction, and other conditions, and of removing segments of the small.

Feb 1st, 2013 - A 36-year-old woman on total parenteral nutrition because of short-bowel syndrome presented with a 2-week history of skin lesions on the face, arms, and legs, but no fever. Examination revealed prominent vesicular lesions on the left arm (Figure 1.

Precautions and Contraindications Since probiotics contain live microorganisms, there is a slight chance that these preparations might cause pathological infection, particularly in critically ill or severely immunocompromised patients. Probiotic s...