A perforated bowel, or intestinal perforation, occurs when a hole forms in the wall of the small intestine or colon (large intestine). This allows the bowel's contents to leak into the abdominal ...

2 During the past three years 3 patients have been seen at the Pennsylvania Hospital with disseminated arteritis of varied etiology, which led to discrete intestinal ulceration, perforation ...

Searches, and references from the previous systematic review, [1] provided 65 studies with 244,329 patients in total, of whom 61,067 experienced an upper gastrointestinal bleed or perforation ...

Acute gastrointestinal bleeding and perforation are important clinical concerns, traditionally associated with high mortality rates. Advances in clinical practice over the past two decades are ...

Paspatis GA, Dumonceau J, Barthet M, et al.: Diagnosis and management of iatrogenic endoscopic perforations: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ( ESGE ) Position Statement. Endoscopy ...

A meta-analysis of 17 randomized controlled trials of bevacizumab for the treatment of various solid tumors confirms an association with gastrointestinal perforation that led to implementation of ...

Exelixis, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXEL) today announced results from a subgroup analysis of the phase 3 CABINET pivotal study of ...

After surgery, the symptoms still continued. He then went to the hospital and was diagnosed with typhoid intestinal perforations. Dr Ikram Muhammad Lawal, a medical officer at Graceland Hospital ...

Background: Some people who suffer an upper gastrointestinal bleed or perforation die. The mortality rate was estimated at 12% in studies published before 1997, but a systematic survey of more ...