Acute colonic ileus or Ogilvie's syndrome is an acute nonmechanical colonic obstruction with an unclear pathophysiology. This motility disorder generally occurs in elderly patients with serious ...

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Colon cleanses come in many forms, from detox teas, pills, and laxatives to procedures like colonic irrigation, where large ...

The female rat's colonic obstruction was a consequence of the pressure induced by a distended vagina packed with caseous copulatory-like plugs of spermatozoa. We believe the rat died of multiple ...

“Foods that are high in fat, such as peanut butter, eggs, or meat, take longer to get through the stomach than lighter foods ...

TikTok has been extolling the virtues of chia seed water, a mixture of – yes, you guessed it – chia seeds and water (often ...

Colonic melanoma is a rarely detected aetiology of small bowel obstruction. This is a case of a male in his 80s with a history of treated stage IIIA melanoma on his trunk 7 years prior who presented ...

Clostridioides difficile, a spore-forming and anaerobic gram-positive bacterium, causes a wide-spectrum diarrheal disease that can ultimately lead to life-threatening conditions such as toxic ...

In general, the diameter of the distended proximal colon is not helpful in determining the patient's prognosis, because risk of colonic perforation is related more to duration of the dilation than ...