Stercoral colitis is an inflammatory condition in which feces collect and cause pressure to build up within the colon. It can lead to complications such as rupture without treatment. Chronic ...

Digital disimpaction is when a person uses their finger to remove stool from the rectum. This procedure may be a last resort when other methods of passing the stool are not working. Sometimes, it is ...

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic, relapsing-and-remitting, potentially progressive form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with multidimensional and often negative effects on patients' lives.

Development of a novel immune-related toxicity grading system for predicting outcomes in patients with solid tumours treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI).

Qin Rao, MD, is a board-certified physician based in New York City. He currently works as a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Manhattan Gastroenterology. Symptoms of impacted bowels can include ...

Fecal incontinence is chronic involuntary stool leakage. Though sufferers can feel shame and embarrassment and many don’t discuss it even with their doctors, it’s relatively common. A number of causes ...

Local recurrence after curative resection of early gastric cancer by endoscopic submucosal dissection. The usefulness of indocyanine green (ICG)–guided lymphadenectomy in robotic gastrectomy for ...