Intestinal obstruction during pregnancy is an uncommon and serious non-obstetric surgical condition which may be associated with significant maternal and fetal mortality. Surgeons who are called upon ...

Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a rare condition that occurs when you have symptoms of intestinal obstruction without anything physically blocking the intestines. It can be chronic or develop ...

They help break down food, absorb its nutrients, and turn it into waste. A bowel obstruction is when something blocks digested food, liquid, or waste from passing through your intestines.

If sufficiently large, a gallstone may lodge at the narrowest part of the gastrointestinal tract, usually the terminal ileum, and present with small bowel obstruction. Here the authors present the ...

Background—Chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, a syndrome of ineffectual motility due to a primary disorder of enteric nerve or muscle, is rare. Aims—To determine the clinical spectrum, ...

email.msn.com Objective: Little has been written in the medical literature concerning the ethics of treatment of the elderly demented patient with bowel obstruction. It is one example of the issues ...

Abstract Asthma with irreversible or fixed airflow obstruction (FAO) is a severe clinical phenotype that is difficult to treat and is associated with an accelerated decline in lung function and excess ...

Ketahui lebih dalam tentang congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), organ abdomen masuk ke dalam rongga dada janin. Baca di ...

These include: Intestinal obstruction: foreign objects that can lacerate or create a blockage in the ... urinalysis, parasite checks, or imaging (ultrasound or X-rays). Bring a sample of the vomit, a ...