ALLMedicine™ Enterocutaneous Fistula Center

Dec 27th, 2021 - Enterocutaneous fistula commonly occurs in the post-operative setting. However, a handful of cases have been reported to occur secondary to strangulation of hernia, mostly femoral due to the narrow femoral ring through which this type of hernia pa...

Nov 17th, 2021 - Difficulty in obtaining adequate abdominal wall closure due to loss of the abdominal domain is a frequent complication of multivisceral, isolated intestinal transplantation and in some cases of liver transplantation. Various methods for primary cl...

Oct 6th, 2021 - The purpose of this study is to determine whether Teduglutide is safe and feasible to be given for the treatment of enterocutaneous fistula (ECF). The hypothesis is that the drug will be well tolerated and will improve the volume of daily ECF outp...

Sep 1st, 2021 - Somatostatin analogues, suchas octreotide and lanreotide, are commonly used in the management of enterocutaneous fistula. We report a case of severe and prolonged hyperglycemia that occurred in a patient after receiving a one-time dose of lanreoti...

Aug 28th, 2021 - We report a case of an enterocutaneous fistula resulting from drainage of a contained appendiceal perforation secondary to an obstructing appendiceal mucinous neoplasm. A 66-year-old otherwise healthy female patient proceeded to laparoscopic appen...

Oct 6th, 2021 - The purpose of this study is to determine whether Teduglutide is safe and feasible to be given for the treatment of enterocutaneous fistula (ECF). The hypothesis is that the drug will be well tolerated and will improve the volume of daily ECF outp...

Mar 30th, 2021 - This is a prospective, randomized-controlled trial comparing two porcine acellular matrices in abdominal wall reconstruction. It is single-blind (patients are blinded to the type of mesh used while surgeons are not). Our goals in this study are: P...

Dec 23rd, 2020 - Patients undergoing emergency surgery for peritonitis are at increased risk of abdominal wall-related complications. In patients with peritonitis the risk of incisional hernia (IH) is extremely elevated. The incidence of IH in patients operated wi...

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 17th, 2017 - ORLANDO – An endoscopic approach to treatment of acute necrotizing pancreatitis was substantially safer than was minimally invasive surgical treatment in a randomized study of 66 patients. Performing drainage and necrosectomy endoscopically in 34.

Mar 8th, 2012 - For patients with Crohn’s disease who have intra-abdominal abscesses, percutaneous drainage plus anti–tumor necrosis factor therapy can be as effective as surgery, Dr. Douglas L.

Apr 22nd, 2010 - Action Points Explain to interested patients that in this study percutaneous drainage obviated the need for necrosectomy in about a third of patients with necrotizing pancreatitis with infected necrotic tissue. A stepped approach of percutaneous d...

SAN ANTONIO — Rectovaginal nodularity turned out to be the only significant risk factor for bowel complications in a retrospective single-institution study of 112 women treated with bevacizumab for recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer. Ten women (9.