J-pouch surgery may be right for you if medication doesn’t work to treat your UC symptoms. The procedure involves removing your colon and rectum and adding a J-shaped pouch to your small intestine.

or J-pouch, procedures. Dr. Remzi is one of the few surgeons in the region who can care for pelvic pouch or J-pouch complications. Our multi-specialty team will stop at nothing to relieve your ...

A new American Gastroenterological Association practice guideline provides strategies to reduce high rates of pouchitis after ...

During the procedure of laparoscopic gastric banding, a small stomach pouch is generated by placement of an adjustable band around the upper stomach. Weight loss predominantly occurs as a result ...

CREATE PROCEDURE defines a new procedure. CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE will either create a new procedure, or replace an existing definition. To be able to define a procedure, the user must have the ...

Robotic surgery (also called robotic-assisted surgery) is perhaps the most cutting-edge medical technology of modern times. The most widely used system today involves a camera and the use of very ...

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, also known as TIPS, is a procedure in which a stent, a small wire-mesh coil, is placed into a liver vein to form a channel, or shunt, that bypasses the ...

They were aided by one woman's dress with a "kangaroo pouch" where they were able to conceal the bottles. The theft happened last week as one woman distracted the clerk and the other two grabbed ...

The medtech industry hopes to capitalise on increased awareness about the obesity space to promote multidisciplinary ...

and gastrointestinal bypass procedures such as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), which result in the creation of a small gastric pouch when part of the proximal stomach is connected to the jejuneum ...