A perforated bowel is a medical emergency that requires immediate surgery. Without treatment, it can cause severe infections, including sepsis, a life-threatening response to infection.

During the operation, a bowel injury occurred, leading to life-threatening complications that required emergency surgery 36 hours later. The patient endured weeks in ... The plaintiff's expert argued ...

A repeat CT scan (figures 2 and 3) showed a substantial perforation of the dilated sigmoid colon. The patient was sent to intensive care unit before undergoing an emergency laparotomy where a Hartmann ...

An ultrasound at Kent & Sussex Hospital revealed a perforated bowel and Louise required an emergency laparotomy and repair of the perforation. She also needed a blood transfusion. After surgery Louise ...

Surgery is often used to manage inflammatory bowel disease, sometimes as an elective procedure or to treat a more urgent issue. IBD may cause severe inflammation, which can result in uncontrolled ...

Emergency surgery identified multiple tumors in the small intestine, accompanied by perforation. Postoperative pathology confirmed the diagnosis ... Abdominal CT is highly sensitive for detecting ...

Correspondence to Dr Thomas Wiles, Emergency ... a perforated diverticulum at the junction of the distal descending colon and proximal sigmoid colon with gas tracking superiorly in the retroperitoneum ...