News tagged with jejunum
Travel of a mis-swallowed long spoon to the jejunum
Foreign body ingestion is a frequent gastrointestinal emergency. However, long spoon swallowing is a rare event. Most swallowed spoons have been found in the stomach. Previously, there has been no reported case of a long ...
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Oct 28, 2009 |
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Bariatric surgery reduces long-term cardiovascular risk in diabetes patients
In the longest study of its kind, bariatric surgery has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients with diabetes. These results and other groundbreaking research were presented at the 2nd World Congress ...
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Mar 30, 2011 |
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Bypass method alone does not improve insulin resistance
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bypass weight-loss surgeries do not improve insulin resistance independent of weight loss, say researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC).
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Oct 29, 2010 |
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New options for enteral nutrition in patients with severe acute pancreatitis
A research team from Italy assessed the rate of spontaneous tube migration and compared the effects of naso-gastric and naso-intestinal (beyond the ligament of Treitz) feeding in severe acute pancreatitis (SAP). They found ...
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Sep 20, 2010 |
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Mechanical bowel preps offer no clinical benefit for pancreaticoduodenectomy
Mechanical bowel preparations (MBP) are commonly administered preoperatively to patients who undergo a pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) (Whipple procedure) to treat benign and malignant tumors of the pancreas, common bile duct ...
May 06, 2010 |
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Surgery recognized as effective treatment for type 2 diabetes
A first-of-its-kind consensus statement by 50 medical experts from around the world has pronounced surgery to be a legitimate and effective treatment for type 2 diabetes, bringing the procedure a significant step closer to ...
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Sealing off portion of intestinal lining treats obesity, resolves diabetes in animal model
Lining the upper portion of the small intestine with an impermeable sleeve led to both weight loss and restoration of normal glucose metabolism in an animal model of obesity-induced diabetes. Investigators from the Massachusetts ...
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Nov 24, 2008 |
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Type 2 diabetes may be caused by intestinal dysfunction
Growing evidence shows that surgery may effectively cure Type 2 diabetes -- an approach that not only may change the way the disease is treated, but that introduces a new way of thinking about diabetes.
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Mar 05, 2008 |
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Capsule endoscopy diagnoses more Crohn's disease recurrence after surgery than colonoscopy
Research from La Fe University Hospital in Valencia, Spain shows that capsule endoscopy diagnoses more Crohn’s disease recurrence after surgery than colonoscopy. Capsule endoscopy led to changes in therapy for more than half ...
Sep 26, 2007 |
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