Distended Bowel

distended bowel:

Gallbladder Stones Ultrasound

From the Soap Lady to the giant distended colon, the Mütter is a place that is a creepy as it as wonderful (and, despite teetering on the precipice of sideshow territory at times, it remains an invaluable teaching tool). Naturally, atmosphere wise it is The letter is part of “Broken Bodies, Suffering Spirits,” a permanent exhibition on Civil Among its treasures are a collection of skulls, an enormously distended colon, some 2,000 safety pins, bottle caps and other objects removed from patients He thought the singer’s bloated appearance was the result of a distended colon rather than overeating. Nichopoulos thought the condition may have contributed to Presley’s death. After losing his medical license, Nichopoulos was briefly a road manager We were able to show that while fructose alone was poorly absorbed and distended the small bowel, when it was combined with glucose the poor absorption was prevented. We also found that fructans have little effect in the small bowel but a large effect on As we opened his abdomen, the severity of this problem was immediately clear. The colon was displaced, twisted and severely distended. It was putting pressure on the blood supply to the small intestine, essentially starving it. The pressure within the .

Another Picture of distended bowel:

distended bowel