Individuals with IBD undergoing colectomy may benefit from surveillance for kidney function. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) undergoing colectomy have higher rates of acute kidney ...

Dear Doctors: My husband is 78 years old. A second colectomy left him with one-fourth of his colon, and he suffers from chronic diarrhea. I’ve read that he should avoid sugar and alcohol, which he won ...

A new clinical practice update from the American Gastroenterological Association recommends that clinicians treating refractory constipation perform comprehensive physiologic and psychological ...

Dear Doctors: My husband is 78 years old. A second colectomy left him with one-fourth of his colon, and he suffers from chronic diarrhea. I’ve read that he should avoid sugar and alcohol, which he won ...

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has emerged as a highly successful therapeutic strategy for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in recent years. However, “implementation of FMT ...

12% of people with ulcerative colitis need surgery to have their colon removed (colectomy). Most of those have an ileo-anal pouch surgically constructed from their small bowel, which means that they ...

A decade-long national audit of total abdominal colectomy (TAC) for ulcerative colitis in the Republic of Ireland showed no 30-day mortality and an increased adoption of laparoscopy and identified ...

(A) Severe ulcerative colitis with ulceration and spontaneous bleeding (the Mayo Endoscopy Score =3); (B) Colitis-associated high-grade dysplasia in a flat rectal lesion (green arrows); (C) Normal ...

For the 907,000 Americans with ulcerative colitis, living with symptoms like urgent bowel movements, abdominal cramps, and loose or bloody stools can be overwhelming, but treatments can help keep ...

Response to the combination of cetuximab, bevacizumab and irinotecan (cetux/bev/iri) in patients (pts) previously treated with 3rd-line panitumumab, following disease progression on oxaliplatin, ...