Dr. Ahmed Allawi, colorectal surgeon at AdventHealth Tampa, performed a partial colectomy (bowel resection) using the SP robot. Before now, surgeons have only performed this procedure in Florida at a ...

A small bowel resection is a type of surgery that ... an intestinal transplant may be performed. This procedure involves removing a diseased small intestine and replacing it with a healthy one ...

Surgical techniques that can promote enteral tolerance and hence improve outcome include establishing intestinal continuity and bowel lengthening procedures. The outcome for USBS is similar to ...

Anthony Brotherton, 81, was admitted to Colchester Hospital in February after suffering from sickness and abdominal pain.

Fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) have been touted as a potential treatment for a variety of conditions, from inflammatory ...

They are hailed as a promising method to restore gut microbiomes, but a study suggests fecal transplants may bring unintended health risks.

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013;7(4):323-329. IDA is one of the most common presentations of obscure GI bleeding and it has several causes, which may be difficult to diagnose by ...

Small bowel obstruction (SBO ... and it leads to roughly 20% of emergency surgical procedures [1], [4]. Because of these high numbers, early detection and proper treatment matter a lot.

Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering. The company has seen great success, including the development of a medical device designed to enable more efficient procedures in the small bowel region.

We prospectively investigated CE, MRI, and double contrast fluoroscopy in patients with suspected small bowel Crohn’s disease. Methods: Fifty two consecutive patients (39 females, 13 males) were ...

Small bowel cancer (also called small intestine cancer) is cancer that starts in the small bowel. Clinical Oncologist Katherine Aitkens explains bowel cancer in the video below. She gives an overview ...

This procedure involves forming a stoma ... including sepsis and organ failure. Small bowel perforations can sometimes heal without surgery. However, a perforated bowel usually requires surgery ...