Abstracts CONTEXT: Laparotomy is the gold standard treatment of patients with intestinal obstruction without response to clinical management. Nowadays, literature has been demonstrating the ...

GLP-1 RAs are associated with a modestly increased risk for GERD and gallstone disease but not with GI and biliary complications.

Controversy remains on whether to perform any biliary surgery at the same time (ie, closing the cholecysto-enteric fistula or cholecystectomy). 1 This case is of particular interest as what started ...

Communication-sensing integration represents an up-and-coming area of research, enabling wireless networks to simultaneously perform communication and sensing tasks. However, in urban cellular ...

High-frequency communication systems bring extremely large aperture arrays (ELAA) and large bandwidths, integrating localization and (bi-static) sensing functions without extra infrastructure. Such ...

Boaters have complain for years that Norflok Southern takes too long to lift its bridge over the mouth of the Cuyahoga River.

KOCHI: Aswathi, a native of Anakkulam in Idukki, donated a portion of her liver to save her 9-month-old son, Edwin, who was ...

Background and aim: Covered self-expandable metal stents (EMS) were recently developed to overcome tumour ingrowth in conventional EMS. However, supporting evidence for the efficacy of covered EMS is ...

Could chewing gum help to reduce the incidence of ileus after different types of abdominal surgery?

Although the major presenting sign of acute colonic ileus is a dilated proximal colon, decreased parasympathetic function can alter colonic motor function.

Introduction Postoperative ileus (POI) is an inevitable complication of almost all abdominal surgeries, which results in prolonged hospitalisation and increased healthcare costs. Various treatment ...

Introduction Biliary colic (BC) is a severe pain associated with nausea and vomiting, which is the most common symptom among the gallstone population. This protocol proposes a methodology for ...