Is bowel preparation necessary for the preoperative preparation of patients undergoing large bowel surgery? The authors reviewed 14 randomized trials (N = 4859) comparing mechanical with no mechanical ...

Aug. 9 (UPI) --For patients getting ready for colon surgery, the painful and burdensome preparation of emptying bowels and taking antibiotics may be a thing of the past, a new study says. Researchers ...

Mechanical bowel preparation is currently used before colorectal surgery with the aim of preventing symptomatic anastomotic leakage, a potentially fatal complication of colorectal surgery. Although ...

Recurrent and re-operative colon surgery is a procedure that is performed when cancer in the colon has returned after initial treatment or when a previous colorectal surgery was unsuccessful. This ...

In recent decades, patients in Europe coming in for colectomies, or surgical procedures targeted at the colon, have not been routinely subjected to what is known as bowel preparation, where the bowel ...

Colon cancer is a cancer that begins in the lining of the colon, which is another name for your large intestine. Health experts often use the term colorectal cancer to refer to cancer that’s in the ...

As indicated by a recently completed study, antibiotics administration and bowel cleansing before colon surgery do not improve patients' treatment outcomes. According to the researchers, bowel ...