Meconium ileus can be difficult to distinguish from ileal atresia on plain radiographs and on contrast enema. Both show a microcolon in the face of a small bowel obstruction. The treatment of the ...

Recent studies have reported beneficial effects from intravenous neostigmine as treatment of acute colonic ileus. If pharmacologic therapy fails, colonoscopic decompression should be performed.

It is also called colorectal cancer.. Your treatment depends on whether you have colon or rectal cancer. Your treatment also depends on a number of factors including how far the cancer has grown, ...

Whatever form it takes, successful treatment reverses the changes in brain circuitry that make substance use hard to control. Yet many factors other than biology must be addressed for treatment to ...

The CF population born post-2007 and not diagnosed by NBS is primarily composed of individuals diagnosed before the NBS result was available (either clinically through meconium ileus or from a family ...

For both reasons, each person’s treatment plan will be different. Read on to learn about the types of MS treatments available. Disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) can reduce the frequency and ...

Towards the end of life, you might want to make decisions about your care. This includes any instructions for refusing treatment. It can sometimes be very difficult to know what care and treatment to ...

Lung cancer survival without treatment is shorter than survival with treatment. People with untreated non-small cell lung cancer—the most common type—typically live between five and 12 months after ...

We evaluated the Botox treatment in SG model rats. Twenty-day-old weanling male rats (weight range 38-70 g, n=72) were divided into four groups (n=18 each): 1) Control (fed a regular liquid diet); 2) ...

Although low blood pressure (otherwise known as hypotension) rarely requires treatment, it may need so if there are symptoms like severe dizziness or fainting. The treatment varies by the cause and ...

Background The effect of complex alleles in cystic fibrosis (CF) is poorly defined for the lack of functional studies. Methods We studied 70 homozygous, compound heterozygous or heterozygous for CFTR ...

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