A 50-year-old woman with Crohn's disease was taken to surgery for multiple strictures of the terminal ileum causing small bowel obstruction. Proximal to the diseased segment there was another diseased ...

Incidence of Salmonella infection is common in hospitals for children, the elderly, and immuno-suppressed individuals. Salmonella enteritidis is one of the main causes of food-borne illness worldwide.

Terminal ileum intubation is considered the completion step of colonoscopy and is usually performed to assess the ileum. The histological examination of the ileal mucosa, which is acquired during ...

Background and Aim: Since the diagnostic value of ileoscopy is not well documented, it is uncertain if terminal ileum intubation should be performed routinely in patients undergoing colonoscopy. We ...

In this study the mycoflora of the normal adult gastrointestinal tract is described. Qualitative and quantitative determinations as well as variations in distribution along the alimentary canal, are ...

In a study published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers at Imperial have found that a higher-fiber diet stimulates the release of a key appetite-reducing hormone, in the ileum, part of the ...

STEATORRHEA is common in patients who have had all or part of the ileum removed. Originally, investigators assumed that this was because fat absorption occurred mainly in the ileum. 1 In 1957, when ...

Terminal ileum intubation is considered the completion step of colonoscopy and is usually performed to assess the ileum. The histological examination of the ileal mucosa, which is acquired during ...