Researchers developed a compound that protects the liver after small bowel resection in mice. The drug improved nutrient ...

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 ...

A risky but often lifesaving surgery that removes damaged parts of the small intestine can leave patients facing a new threat: serious liver damage with no available treatment. Now, scientists have ...

The present study reports the successful management, nutritional requirements and absorptive capacity in a seventeen-year-old boy who has to date survived for more than two years since massive ...

Oct. 21, 2005 (San Francisco) — Patients hospitalized for small bowel obstruction were likely to require rehospitalization within three years and had an unexpectedly high mortality rate, according to ...

Patients with Crohn's disease who underwent earlier, rather than later, abdominal surgery had fewer cumulative reoperations in the years ahead, though they also had a higher hospitalization risk, a ...

Seven types of emergency general surgeries (EGSs) account for the vast majority of all EGSs (80.0%), deaths (80.3%), complications (78.9%), and inpatient costs (80.2%), according to a retrospective ...