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 ...

When someone is diagnosed with colorectal cancer—which includes both colon and rectal cancers—many people immediately think ...

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 ...

Initial results of the CLASICC trial have recently been presented in the Lancet by Guillou and co-workers. This study aimed to compare the short-term outcomes of laparoscopic resection with those of ...

When parts of the small intestine are diseased or die, the treatment can involve surgically removing the affected tissue. Although lifesaving, the procedure—referred to as a radical small bowel ...

Three physicians recently completed the first robotic-assisted colon resection surgeries at Martinsburg, W.Va.-based Berkeley Medical Center. 1. Jason Turner, MD, Robert Cicchino, DO, and Zachary ...

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 ...

Low muscle quality and quantity are both predictive of poor outcomes in colon resection surgery, according to a new study published in JAMA Surgery. Carla Prado, a researcher in the University of ...

While Crohn’s disease, a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), can often be controlled by medication, up to 75 percent of people living with the disease will require surgery at some point in their ...

In the management of Crohn’s disease, a key objective — preserving the bowel by reducing the need for multiple resections — ...

CLINICAL experience with patients who have had massive bowel resection suggests that gastric hypersecretion may occur and can significantly affect the course. Summarized below are 2 cases in which an ...