One form this dysfunction can take is bowel incontinence, or the inability to control bowel movements. People who experience this symptom often fear having an accident at a particularly ...

Oral bowel-cleansing preparations are used before colonic surgery and endoscopic and radiological assessment of the intestine to minimise faecal contamination. In February 2009, the UK National ...

This condition is more common in women and people over the age of 65. Common symptoms of fecal incontinence are leakage of stool or gas that can’t be controlled, urgency to have a bowel movement, and ...

What is Hirschsprung’s disease? Hirschsprung's disease (also called colonic aganglionosis) causes a blockage of the large intestine due to improper muscle movement in the bowel. It is a congenital ...

Most people with polyps will not have any symptoms. However, some people may have symptoms from polyps, such as: Bleeding from the rectum Change in stool color, either red or black Change in bowel ...

Objective: This study aimed to develop a predictive model using a random forest algorithm to determine the likelihood of postoperative adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) in infants under 3 months ...

She has short bowel syndrome, a rare condition that prevents her body from completely absorbing the nutrients of regular food. Vargas and her husband were desperate to get their daughter ...

But I’ve just got to try to get on with life, and deal with whatever comes my way.” Across two surgeries, they removed her greater omentum – which is part of the stomach - gall bladder, spleen, large ...

We report the clinical and intestinal manometric findings in a group of 42 patients with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction evaluated at the Mayo Clinic. The main clinical manifestations ...

The authors regard this patient’s situation as immune therapy-related intestinal obstruction. However, we propose an alternative interpretation of this patient’s intestinal obstruction, which was a ...

dDepartment of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands eDepartment of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands fCenter for ...