Doctors at a private Delhi hospital successfully removed a moisturiser bottle lodged in a young woman's intestine using sigmoidoscopy, avoiding surgical intervention. The 27-year-old patient had ...

Complications include pulmonary aspiration, bleeding, perforation, risks of sedation and chest pain 15; the last of these being more common in patients with eosinophilic oesophagitis. 16 17 A UK ...

A 64-year-old Chinese man was astonished to discover a toothbrush lodged in his intestines for 52 years after accidentally ...

The man, identified as Yang, said he remembered swallowing the toothbrush at the age of 12 but was too scared to tell his ...

If we assume that the perforation of the duodenal ulcer occurred first, it was likely that it led to mesenteric venous thrombosis causing ischaemic infarction of the small bowel.

The patient said she had on and off belly pain for the last two years, but now the pain above her belly button had intensified to what she described as “stabbing.” ...

“The middle part of the small intestine had a perforation and was heavily contaminated,” she explained. “A 10 cm segment was removed, and both ends were brought out as a mid-ileum ileostomy.

Comments 1 Lauren Harte 15:25, 15 Jun 2025 Updated 15:09, 16 Jun 2025 Lindsay Barry and Lagan Valley Hospital’s Specialist Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Nurse, Dawn Kilpatrick ...

Ultrashort bowel syndrome (USBS) is a group of heterogeneous disorders where the length of small bowel is less than 10 cm or 10% of expected for the age. It is caused by massive loss of the gut which ...

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 ...

Capsule endoscopy has gained a lot of attention in the medical field in the recent past as an effective way of investigating unusual symptoms experienced in places such as esophagus, stomach, small ...

This study aimed to obtain information on the transport form and pathway from the intestine to the peripheral tissues and on the intestinal absorption and metabolism properties of oleamide ...