Oct. 21, 2005 (San Francisco) — Patients hospitalized for small bowel obstruction were likely to require rehospitalization within three years and had an unexpectedly high mortality rate, according to ...

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Inflammation from Crohn’s disease can cause thickening or scar tissue inside your small intestine, which sometimes leads to narrow areas called strictures. A strictureplasty for Crohn’s disease is a ...

Is open abdominal surgery preferable to laparoscopic surgery for management of small bowel obstruction? The authors of a paper, published in Annals of Surgery, [1] looked at data from 8584 Canadian ...

Surgery used to be considered a last-resort treatment option for people with Crohn’s disease, when nothing else was working. That advice is changing. “Doctors who sent people with Crohn’s for surgery ...

The present study reports the successful management, nutritional requirements and absorptive capacity in a seventeen-year-old boy who has to date survived for more than two years since massive ...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a name used to describe a group of disorders created by chronic inflammation of different parts of the intestine. The most common forms of IBD include Ulcerative ...

Abscesses are a common problem if you have Crohn’s disease. They’re painful pockets of pus and bacteria that can form in your stomach, pelvis, or around your anus. You’ll need antibiotics to treat the ...

Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) seem to be the most trophic macronutrients in inducing intestinal adaptation in adult short bowel syndrome (SBS), although their effects on intestinal ...