A man was hospitalized after more than three feet of his small intestine broke through a two-inch hole in his abdomen where ...

A new study suggests that small-bowel capsule endoscopy is effective for detecting bleeding sources regardless of timing ...

The workings of the small intestine have long been a mystery, but now we are discovering the hidden roles this organ plays in ...

Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Dumping syndrome is a collection of symptoms that happens when food is dumped too ...

For over a decade, scientists have been growing organoids—small clusters of cells that mimic a particular organ—to serve as miniature biological models. Organoids of the brain have been used to study ...

This small-vessel vasculitis is not particularly threatening. Sometimes the pattern of blood vessels on the skin is very prominent (Figure 2). (The prominent blood vessel pattern may be normal in cold ...

The aging of the innermost cell layer of blood vessels leads to cardiovascular diseases. Researchers at UZH have now shown for the first time that intestinal bacteria and their metabolites ...

Using two small incisions in the chest and the groin, the device is inserted into the aorta to direct blood flow away from the aneurysm, causing the bulge to shrink."Then we get into each hole and ...

A total of 65 cases of primary small-bowel tumor were found, and in 33 of these the tumors were malignant. Shallow, Eger and Carty 5 state that primary cancer of the small intestine occurs in 0.1 ...

CHRISTOPHER DAMMAN: 100%, and there’s actually some new technology that’s come out in recent years. And for a while now, we’ve had clinical tools that just take pictures of the small intestine, and ...

The clot most often forms in a vein called the "superior mesenteric vein," close to the small intestine. ... of swelling in the intestines and blockages in the blood vessels around your intestines.