In this Woman's Doctor segment, some with stomach or gastrointestinal issues may think it's irritable bowel syndrome, but it ...

Also called a K-pouch, a continent ileostomy is a connection of the end of the small intestine, called the ileum, to the skin of your abdomen. A surgeon makes it so that waste can leave your body ...

The driver was arrested on traffic charges and then kept from being able to empty the feces from his internal ileostomy pouch; as a result of damage to the pouch, he was permanently catheterized. The ...

Medindia offers a freely downloadable ‘Ileostomy News Widget’ that can be easily installed on one or all pages of your website. Large, medium or small websites’ webmasters can use this ...

The output (what the stool that comes out of the stoma is called) might be less solid than a bowel movement through an intact colon. Ileostomy Surgery: In ileostomy surgery, part or all of the large ...

If you're considering laser surgery for a cosmetic procedure, you may come across various types of laser procedures. While they all have similar features, each laser procedure has different effects.

Sometimes the surgeon brings the end of the bowel out as an opening on your abdomen called a stoma. This is to give the bowel time to heal. An ileostomy is an opening (stoma) of the small bowel (ileum ...