Bowel obstruction occurs when the normal flow of intraluminal contents is interrupted. Large bowel obstruction secondary to mechanical compression from a uterine leiomyoma is a rare complication that ...

Metastatic bowel cancer is cancer that started in either the back passage (rectum) or large bowel (colon) and has spread to another part of the body. Deciding about treatment can be difficult when you ...

But we didn't get to do any of that. It was a huge shock to the system,” her daughter said. Bowel cancer means cancer that starts in the large bowel (colon) and the back passage (rectum). It is also ...

Doctors use laboratory tests, imaging studies, and endoscopic procedures to help diagnose short bowel syndrome ... small intestine that connects to the large intestine (if it is present).

CT colonography is a test that uses CT scans to check the large bowel (colon) and back passage (rectum). It’s also called a virtual colonoscopy. You have this test as an outpatient in the CT scanning ...

You can expect to have at least one if not more, large bowel movements within a few hours after using a laxative ... Emergency fecal impaction surgery may be needed if there is a complete bowel ...

Doctors at the VGM Hospital have successfully removed through endoscopy, an 8 cm polyp from the transverse colon of a 29-year-old female patient. This procedure averted the need for a right ...

They are not the only managers in the large-growth category who look for these attributes, though, and it is not clear that they execute their flavor of it better than peers. Vitrano and Furfaro ...

Like many of its large-value peers, the fund carries persistent sector biases versus the broader market. Compared with the Russell 1000 Index, the fund tilts toward financials and energy stocks ...

the etiology of dilated cardiomyopathy encompasses acute myocarditis, viral or bacterial infections, toxin exposure, and the natural aging process. Furthermore, persistent chronic myocarditis may ...

Almost 43,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer each year in the UK and more than 16,500 people die from the disease making it the UK’s second biggest cancer killer. However, this shouldn't ...