Greater access to innovative treatments could be linked to a drop in patients requiring surgery for a type of inflammatory ...

Dr. Lindsay Hannan discusses findings that showed advanced medical therapies in ulcerative colitis have not improved ...

A colectomy is a procedure to remove part or all of your colon to treat or prevent certain conditions. Read more about how it’s done and what to expect.

What Is a Laparoscopic Ileocolectomy and Right Colectomy? A laparoscopic ileocolectomy is an operation that removes a diseased section of the ileum (last segment of the small bowel) and ascending ...

Surgeons fully supported the need for an evaluation of laparoscopically assisted colectomy for cancer, adopting a virtual moratorium on this practice outside of a clinical trial. 7,18 Our multi ...

Devlynn Cyr, 38, went into the hospital to have a part of her colon removed. After surgery she woke up to the news that she had been given a hysterectomy due to a cancerous tumor.

The recovery period for sigmoid colectomy will vary depending on the type of surgery you undergo. It frequently includes a hospital stay between 3 and 10 days. If you have open surgery, your ...

Dear Doctors: My husband is 78 years old. A second colectomy left him with one-fourth of his colon, and he suffers from chronic diarrhea. I’ve read that he should avoid sugar and alcohol, which ...

Subtotal colectomy with end ileostomy can help treat conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer. Learn more.

The risk for colectomy declined over the past two decades among Finnish patients with newly diagnosed ulcerative colitis (UC), particularly between 2013 and 2020, when several advanced treatment ...

Patients with ulcerative colitis may have an increased risk for gallstone disease after undergoing colectomy, according to the results of a Danish national cohort study.This finding led ...

Are there circumstances in which a subtotal colectomy might be recommended for a young patient with a single adenocarcinoma found on colonoscopy without previous family history or colitis? This is ...