Recent studies have reported beneficial effects from intravenous neostigmine as treatment of acute colonic ileus. If pharmacologic therapy fails, colonoscopic decompression should be performed.

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In diverticulosis, diverticula (small bulging pouches) develop in the intestinal lining and bulge through the muscular layers of the colon. These often do not produce symptoms. Diverticulitis occurs ...

as a treatment for a type of colon cancer. The fixed dose combination did not demonstrate an improvement in OS compared to standard of care in patients with previously treated PD-L1 positive ...

The patient with colonic ileus typically presents with increasing abdominal distention that is associated with mild, worsening abdominal pain. There is usually cessation of bowel movements ...

The colon (also known as the large intestine) is a U-shaped, segmented tube made of muscle that is located below the stomach and connects to the rectum at the end of the colon. The colon and rectum ...

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Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago successfully performed a “first-of-its-kind” double-lung transplant on a cancer ...

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