Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction (CIPO) and related gastrointestinal motility disorders constitute a group of rare but debilitating conditions that mimic mechanical obstruction despite the ...

Congenital intestinal atresia and obstruction encompass a group of developmental anomalies in which a portion of the intestinal lumen is either absent (atresia) or narrowed (stenosis). These ...

Within the past year on the Third (Boston University) Surgical Service at the Boston City Hospital we have seen 2 cases of acute mechanical small-bowel obstruction with serum amylase values in the ...

Abdominal pain, bloating, and constipation are common symptoms of bowel obstruction. Partial bowel obstruction symptoms may come and go for days or weeks before worsening. Intussusception in children ...