An esophageal stricture is a gradual narrowing of the esophagus, which can lead to swallowing difficulties. Healthcare providers diagnose it in about 10 percent of people with gastroesophageal ...

Esophageal stenting is a medical procedure used to treat various conditions affecting the esophagus, including strictures (narrowing ... process that creates three-dimensional objects from digital ...

A ureteral obstruction is a blockage in your ureters. Your ureters are the tubes that carry urine from your kidneys to your bladder. Many conditions, including kidney stones, cancer, and ureteral ...

or the effect of a natural healing process in a narrow esophagus. Johansson et al. conclude that prophylactic use of PPIs reduces the formation of benign anastomotic strictures, as does the use of ...

Urethral strictures refer to the narrowing of the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine out of the body. This condition is typically caused by scarring, which can block or narrow the urethra, ...

Development and validation of machine learning model for mortality after curative gastrectomy for gastric cancer. The impact of nutritional status on recurrence-free survival (RFS) in patients with ...

Eating too fast, talking while you’re chowing down, not chewing enough or munching on dry foods might cause difficulty ...

Acid regurgitation can lead to distal peptic strictures of the esophagus, with a low eosinophilic infiltration on biopsy (<10 eosinophils/HPF). Eosinophilic esophagitis can produce thick rings or ...

As judged from his history, the patient initially appeared to have acute kidney injury (AKI) that was due to lower urinary tract obstruction, resulting in urinary retention with overflow ...