In adults, volvulus of the small intestine is rare. In adults, volvulus tends to occur in the colon and is known as a sigmoid volvulus. In infants, volvulus of the small intestine often occurs due ...

Every kind of volvulus can lead to serious complications if not treated promptly, so recognizing the signs and seeking ...

That can cause serious problems. The most common form of twisted bowel is sigmoid volvulus. It’s the twisting of the last part of your colon, called the sigmoid colon. It can also happen at the ...

No satisfactory method of fixation of the redundant sigmoid to prevent recurrence has been described, so that almost all patients, because of the considerable tendency for volvulus to recur ...

a condition known as a sigmoid volvulus, Cunningham says. “It can just happen spontaneously,” she tells TODAY.com. “There’s nothing that really seems to be a precipitating factor for this.” ...

Characteristic findings on radiography include a dilated and displaced haustral bowel loop, with a paucity of gas in the distal colon (differentiating cecal from sigmoid volvulus).4 However, findings ...

Doctors at Tenkasi government headquarters hospital (GHQH) on Monday successfully performed life-saving emergency surgery in less than four hours to treat a 57-year-old man with sigmoid volvulus ...

This is different from gastric and sigmoid volvulus. The former refers to the twisting of the stomach, while the latter consists of a twisting together of parts of the colon and pelvis.