A myomectomy patient suffered bowel perforation, severe sepsis and emergency surgery, resulting in an ileostomy and over ...

Background: Some people who suffer an upper gastrointestinal bleed or perforation die. The mortality rate was estimated at 12% in studies published before 1997, but a systematic survey of more recent ...

I am a 67-year-old physically active man. I was taking turmeric three times a day for several weeks to reduce workout-related inflammation. I ended up in the hospital with an abscess and small ...

Adhesions from prior abdominal surgeries are the most common cause of SBO. Untreated SBO can lead to serious complications like bowel perforation or tissue death (strangulation). Symptoms of SBO ...

A Passaic County medical malpractice suit filed by a 54-year-old Totowa man and his wife, Dominianni v. Warta, M.D., after an elective hernia repair, resulted in a $2.25 million settlement with the ...

A woman whose bowel was perforated during spinal surgery received payment of a $1.1 million settlement in her Essex County medical malpractice suit, Franco… A woman whose bowel was perforated during ...

A woman who missed out on her teenage years as she battled undiagnosed Crohn’s disease spent months in an eating disorder inpatient unit before her diagnosis, and needed 60cm of her bowel removed ...

The descending colon is a section of the large intestine that passes downward. Its functions include storing food remains before they pass through the rest of the colon and rectum for elimination. The ...

Q: I am a 67-year-old physically active man. I was taking turmeric three times a day for several weeks to reduce ...

I am a 67-year-old physically active man. I was taking turmeric three times a day for several weeks to reduce workout-related ...