Individuals with IBD undergoing colectomy may benefit from surveillance for kidney function. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) undergoing colectomy have higher rates of acute kidney ...

Dear Doctors: My husband is 78 years old. A second colectomy left him with one-fourth of his colon, and he suffers from chronic diarrhea. I’ve read that he should avoid sugar and alcohol, which he won ...

A decade-long national audit of total abdominal colectomy (TAC) for ulcerative colitis in the Republic of Ireland showed no 30-day mortality and an increased adoption of laparoscopy and identified ...

12% of people with ulcerative colitis need surgery to have their colon removed (colectomy). Most of those have an ileo-anal pouch surgically constructed from their small bowel, which means that they ...

(A) Severe ulcerative colitis with ulceration and spontaneous bleeding (the Mayo Endoscopy Score =3); (B) Colitis-associated high-grade dysplasia in a flat rectal lesion (green arrows); (C) Normal ...

Ana-Maria Toth launched Hypnopal to find an alternative to medication for pain relief following colorectal surgery A clinical nurse researcher from Somerset has launched a study into whether hypnosis ...

A clinical nurse researcher from Somerset has launched a study into whether hypnosis could benefit patients after colon surgery. Ana-Maria Toth began her research project, Hypnopal, to see if patients ...