Doctors at a private Delhi hospital successfully removed a moisturiser bottle lodged in a young woman's intestine using sigmoidoscopy, avoiding surgical intervention. The 27-year-old patient had ...

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Endoscopic Closure Systems are essential for ensuring the integrity of internal organs post-procedure. Technological ...

The entire procedure can last 5 to 90 minutes. An endoscopy usually lasts 15 to 30 minutes, while a colonoscopy may last 0 to 60 minutes.

The primary end points of the study were endoscopic perforation of the colon. Risk factors for such a complication were then analyzed. The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee.

He risked a stomach perforation. The life-saving intervention at the Martiri del Villa Malta hospital in Sarno was conducted by Dr. Sergio Di Fenza, head of the endoscopy department, and his team.

Discriminating necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) and focal intestinal perforation (FIP) is important for clinical trials, observational cohorts, quality improvement and aetiological understanding.

She claimed she was later advised the perforation could not be fully repaired and that she would require ongoing percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding.

A perforated bowel, or intestinal perforation, occurs when a hole forms in the wall of the small intestine or colon (large intestine). This allows the bowel's contents to leak into the abdominal ...