Major surgery such as colorectal surgery is still associated with undesirable consequences and postoperative complications [ ...

The following is a summary of “Stapled vs. manually sutured bowel anastomosis in robot-assisted radical cystectomy: a ...

If you have been considering getting surgical options to support your weight loss goals, a newer procedure known as single ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013;7(3):215-223. In a small pediatric case series, a manometry study of the neorecto-anal function revealed similar maximum neorectal tolerated threshold volume ...

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD The terms irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can be confusing, since both refer to digestive system conditions that share some ...

[9,10] Within a recent three-year interval, however, two uncontrolled trials from the United Kingdom questioned this tenet and advocated resection and primary anastomosis without mechanical bowel ...

Bowel endometriosis occurs when endometrium tissue, which normally lines the uterus, grows on the surface of or inside the intestines; it can also grow on the rectum or in other parts of the bowel.

SCIENTISTS have identified the 10 lifestyle tweaks that can drastically reduce your risk of bowel and breast cancer. A major new report from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) marks an ...

The first part of the small intestine (duodenum), which is right below the stomach ... Mercy, St. Louis. Single anastomosis duodenal switch (SADI). American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery ...

To corroborate these findings, we now expanded the analysis to our cohort of 77 patients with CRC who underwent a bowel resection with anastomosis (table 1): 13 were diagnosed with poor anastomotic ...