Latest Advances

  • Condition: Congenital Short Bowel Syndrome (CSBS) in a Neonate
  • Journal: The Journal of international medical research
  • Treatment Used: Ladd's Procedure and Parenteral Nutrition
  • Number of Patients: 1
  • Published —
This case report describes a 26-day-old girl with congenital short bowel syndrome (CSBS) treated with Ladd's procedure and parenteral nutrition.
  • Condition: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM)/Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis (eu-DKA)
  • Journal: Medicine
  • Treatment Used: Dapagliflozin
  • Number of Patients: 1
  • Published —
This article reviewed the case of a patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus (disease that occurs when the blood sugar is too high; DM) who developed dapagliflozin (medication used to treat diabetes)-associated euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis (high blood sugar, anion gap acidosis - when the body produces too much acid, or when the kidneys are not removing enough acid from the body, and increased plasma ketones - which are made when the body turns fat into energy; eu-DKA).
  • Condition: Pediatric Liver-Kidney and Multi-Visceral-Kidney Transplantation
  • Journal: Pediatric transplantation
  • Treatment Used: Pediatric Donor en Bloc Kidneys with Bladder Segment
  • Number of Patients: 4
  • Published —
This study reported experience with donor kidneys, ureters, and a bladder patch en bloc with multi-visceral organs in pediatric liver-kidney and multi-visceral-kidney transplantation.
  • Condition: Proximal Acute Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction and Related Symptoms
  • Journal: Diseases of the colon and rectum
  • Treatment Used: Colonic Decompression
  • Number of Patients: 144
  • Published —
This study compared the effectiveness of colonic decompression with standard medical therapy (supportive and pharmacologic therapy) to standard medical therapy alone in the treatment of acute colonic pseudo-obstruction.
  • Condition: Children with Intestinal Failure
  • Journal: Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition
  • Treatment Used: Parenteral Nutrition
  • Number of Patients: 51
  • Published —
This study reviewed the outcomes of children with intestinal failure treated with parenteral nutrition.
  • Condition: Acute Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction (Ogilvie's Syndrome)
  • Journal: ANZ journal of surgery
  • Treatment Used: Subcutaneous Neostigmine
  • Number of Patients: 30
  • Published —
This study assessed the safety of subcutaneous neostigmine in patients with acute colonic pseudo-obstruction (Ogilvie's syndrome).
  • Condition: Ogilvie's Syndrome
  • Journal: Medicine
  • Treatment Used: Conservative or Interventional Treatment
  • Number of Patients: 37
  • Published —
This study examined the outcomes for patients over the age of 18 with Ogilvie's syndrome (acute colon dilation) treated with either conservative or interventional treatment.
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