ALLMedicine™ Short-bowel Syndrome Center

May 6th, 2022 - Short-bowel syndrome (SBS) is considered a low prevalence disease. In Argentina, no registries are available on chronic intestinal failure (CIF) and SBS. This project was designed as the first national registry to report adult patients with this d...

Apr 27th, 2022 - Malnutrition is a very common and often underrecognized condition among patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). This is most commonly due to increased nutritional requirements and gastrointestinal losses, along with reduced oral intake. S...

Mar 16th, 2022 - Patients with short-bowel syndrome and intestinal failure (SBS-IF) require parenteral support (PS) and experience various symptoms and comorbidities. This survey assessed the impact of SBS-IF and PS on patients and their health-related quality of ...

Jan 25th, 2022 - Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition that requires continuous medical treatment. To date, the medical management of patients with moderately-to-severely active IBD who develop dependence or resistance to corticosteroids is based...

Jan 20th, 2022 - Short-bowel syndrome (SBS) in neonates is associated with microbial dysbiosis due to intestinal surgery, prolonged hospitalization, enteral nutrition, and repeated antibiotic exposure. Sepsis and liver disease, leading causes of morbidity and mort...

Mar 6th, 2020 - Gastroschisis is one of the most common neonatal surgical conditions, and is increasing in incidence. Postnatal bowel ischemia leading to necrosis, bowel loss and short-bowel syndrome, occurs in a few instances, with significant impact. Intestinal...

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...