(HealthDay News) — Among U.S. adults, small bowel volvulus cases account for 1% of hospitalizations for bowel obstruction, according to research published online April 29 in the American Journal of ...

ROCK SPRINGS — Rock Springs Mayor Max Mickelson proclaimed Jan. 15 as Intestinal Malrotation and Volvulus Awareness Day during the city council’s regular meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 7. Rock Springs ...

It’s a condition doctors often misdiagnose, and that can have devastating consequences, but a new treatment is fixing a birth defect in the gut and changing lives. Intestinal malrotation affects one ...

It happens in the womb, usually around the tenth week of pregnancy: The baby’s intestines do not form correctly in the abdomen and then fail to coil in the proper position. If the condition is not ...

A Cleveland Clinic study has introduced a new surgical procedure to treat both children and adults with congenital intestinal malrotation, an inherited disorder that can cause the intestines to twist.

CF was diagnosed by sweat test in a 4-year-old girl who had been followed by independent practitioners for failure to thrive and protracted respiratory infections. Genetic testing of the CFTR gene ...

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Monday, September 13, 2021, CLEVELAND: A Cleveland Clinic study has introduced a new surgical procedure to treat both children and adults with congenital intestinal malrotation, an inherited disorder ...

THE incidence of sigmoidal volvulus in the United States is so low that few surgeons acquire great experience in dealing with it. It is reported by most authors as ranging between 1 and 4 per cent of ...

As an immediate life-saving step, the Medicover surgical gastroenterology team led by Dr. Kaushik Subramanian performed an emergency colonoscopic detorsion, successfully untwisting the bowel and ...