Gastrointestinal perforation is a hole in the wall of the stomach, small intestine, or large bowel. It is a serious condition that often requires emergency surgery. This article looks at ...

PERFORATION of the gastrointestinal tract in the newborn infant is a major catastrophe that causes death in over three fourths of the babies, despite the availability of modern diagnostic and thera ...

We report an extreme low birth weight infant with gastrointestinal mucormycosis (GM) mimicking necrotizing enterocolitis on day 15 of age. Emergency laparotomy confirmed ileal perforations.

Searches, and references from the previous systematic review, [1] provided 65 studies with 244,329 patients in total, of whom 61,067 experienced an upper gastrointestinal bleed or perforation, and ...

Did she have a perforated duodenal ulcer, causing sepsis and hypotension leading to small bowel ischemia, ... If we assume that the perforation of the duodenal ulcer occurred first, ...

Multidetector CT (MDCT) without the use of contrast media can show the precise site of a bowel perforation, avoiding the need for surgeons to do exploratory surgery of the patient's ...

A global databaseshowed 47 cases of bowel obstruction, including nine deaths, and 37 cases of gastrointestinal perforation, including four deaths, in patients taking Rituxan, the company said.