Ulcerative colitis is a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation and open sores (ulcers) in the ...

Dr. Alexander Lake, Gastroenterologist at AdventHealth, joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to emphasize the vital ...

Alexander Lake, DO, a gastroenterologist at AdventHealth, joined Gayle Guyardo, host of the globally syndicated health and ...

Moreover, they managed to apply their noninvasive method to detecting disease in the small intestine, the long, thin tube that in healthy people absorbs most of the proteins from food. Because the ...

In this paper, effects of stationary contraction on mixing and transport of a non-Newtonian fluid in the small intestine are analyzed theoretically. A semi-analytical method is developed to solve the ...

Carbon-based thermal interface materials (TIMs) play a crucial role in maintaining the performance and reliability of electronic devices by improving their thermal management capabilities. Previous ...

Collagen membranes are widely used in guided bone regeneration (GBR) because of their good biocompatibility and low immunogenicity. As a bioderived collagen membrane, small intestinal submucosa (SIS) ...

In patients with small intestinal Crohn’s disease (CD), there is a need for a simple, non-invasive test to reduce dependence on invasive procedures (eg, enteroscopy) and costly imaging (eg, MRI or CT ...

Background: Defects in the small intestinal epithelial barrier have been associated with inflammatory bowel disease but their role in the causation of disease is still a matter of debate. In some ...

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

He underwent emergency surgery and was eventually discharged eight days after the operation An 83-year-old man was hospitalized after his small intestine partially burst through his skin.