(HealthDay News) — Among U.S. adults, small bowel volvulus cases account for 1% of hospitalizations for bowel obstruction, according to research published online April 29 in the American Journal of ...

Dear Dr. Roach: This past weekend, during my son’s wedding festivities, I experienced a sigmoid volvulus. Doctors recommended surgery, but I opted for a colonoscopy, which was performed successfully.

ROCK SPRINGS — Rock Springs Mayor Max Mickelson proclaimed Jan. 15 as Intestinal Malrotation and Volvulus Awareness Day during the city council’s regular meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 7. Rock Springs ...

It happens in the womb, usually around the tenth week of pregnancy: The baby’s intestines do not form correctly in the abdomen and then fail to coil in the proper position. If the condition is not ...

A Cleveland Clinic study has introduced a new surgical procedure to treat both children and adults with congenital intestinal malrotation, an inherited disorder that can cause the intestines to twist.

It’s a condition doctors often misdiagnose, and that can have devastating consequences, but a new treatment is fixing a birth defect in the gut and changing lives. Intestinal malrotation affects one ...

CF was diagnosed by sweat test in a 4-year-old girl who had been followed by independent practitioners for failure to thrive and protracted respiratory infections. Genetic testing of the CFTR gene ...

a). Midgut normal rotation. Note the foregut is coloured green, midgut as yellow and hind gut is having red color. b). Midgut malrotation with all of the small bowel on the right side, ileocecal ...

Melissa Gonzalez always had another call to take, a meeting to attend or trip booked in her calendar. The strategist from New Jersey was attending a weekend retreat in the fall of 2022 when she ...