You and your doctor will think about several things in deciding whether you should have open resection or a laparoscopy. These include: The location and extent of the disease Your general health ...

Doctors will typically diagnose short bowel syndrome early in life or from surgery required due to another health condition ...

Since glutamine (Gln) is considered a major fuel for small bowel (SB), extensive SB resection could alter whole body Gln metabolism in vivo. Very few data are available on Gln metabolism in infants.

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 ...

INTERNAL hernia related bowel obstruction may look deceptively mild at presentation, even when bowel strangulation is already ...

The clinical presentation of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) can vary and can be attributed to tumour mass effect or gastrointestinal haemorrhage. We present the rare case of a female in her ...

Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel ...