Duodenal switch surgery combines two complex weight loss procedures — a sleeve gastrectomy and an intestinal bypass — to form the most reliable weight loss procedure with long-term results. Your ...

A duodenal ulcer is a type of peptic ulcer that can appear in the duodenum. The duodenum is the upper part of the small intestine that’s connected directly to the stomach where it empties into the ...

Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is an enigmatic disorder of the small intestine that is postulated to play a role in childhood undernutrition, a pressing global health problem. Defining the ...

Duodenal cancer is a rare type of cancer that forms in the first part of the small intestine. Symptoms can be vague, which can make early diagnosis difficult. In this article, we look at what duodenal ...

A perforated duodenal ulcer can lead to severe complications, as it allows bacteria from the intestine to escape into and infect the lining of the abdomen. The infection can lead to sepsis, which can ...

CHICAGO -- A novel approach to revitalizing the duodenal mucosa as a means to restore normal insulin sensitivity in people with type 2 diabetes is showing strong promise in early studies, according to ...

In all tested patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), immunohistochemistry analysis of duodenal wall biopsy samples showed there was elevated immunoreactivity for aggregated alpha-Synuclein (αSyn) ...

Figure 1: Intraduodenal metformin infusion activates duodenal Ampk and lowers HGP in the preabsorptive state. Figure 2: A duodenal AMPK–GLP-1R–PKA signaling pathway is required for metformin to lower ...

Clinical experience of bendamustine treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia: Spanish Registry. Background: Data on the clinical characteristics of duodenal follicular ...

People with the hereditary disease familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) have a greatly increased risk of developing a malignant tumor of the duodenum. Researchers have now discovered a mechanism in ...