Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Toxic megacolon, a life-threatening complication, occurs in about 1% of patients with ulcerative colitis, ...

Internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, is back for another Day in the Life of a Doctor. Join her as she helps a northern Canadian hospital experiencing a physician ...

A 24-year-old man's bowel became so packed with feces that it perforated, according to a case study report detailing conditions known as megarectum and megacolon. The unnamed man from London visited A ...

Fulminant colitis is a rare but severe form of colitis that can be life threatening. It affects the entire lining of the colon, causing severe inflammation and potentially serious complications. In ...

Doctors are urging caution after a 24-year-old U.K. man underwent emergency surgery when they discovered that his severely enlarged colon, filled with feces, had burst. He was dealing with two rare ...

A manometric technic is described for the diagnosis of Hirschsprung's disease without the necessity of deep-muscle rectal biopsy. Separate pressure recordings were obtained from the internal and ...

THE diagnosis of Hirschsprung's disease is not always easy. The patient presenting a typical history of chronic constipation, with physical signs of a distended abdomen and an empty rectal ampulla, ...