Patients can be reassured that delays in stoma reversal surgery do not affect long-term outcomes according to research funded by Bowel Cancer UK and North West Cancer Research. The Lancaster ...

Patients can be reassured that delays in stoma reversal surgery do not affect long-term outcomes according to research funded by Bowel Cancer UK and North West Cancer Research. The Lancaster ...

A stoma is an opening that a surgeon creates on a person’s abdomen to allow them to pass bodily waste. Stomas can be lifesaving for people with certain conditions. A person has ostomy surgery to ...

An ileostomy and a colostomy are surgical procedures that reroute part of the intestines to an opening in the abdominal wall. Ileostomies involve the small intestine, while colostomies involve the ...

An ostomy is a surgically created opening on your abdomen to drain stool. It is the end of the intestine that can be seen on the skin of your belly. There are two types of ostomies: ileostomy and ...

After undergoing a colorectal cancer surgery and getting an ostomy, patients may experience a prolapse, but it is not cause to panic, an expert says. Stoma prolapses are usually “alarming, but not ...

Prolapsed stoma is when a piece of your intestine pushes out through the stoma, or opening, in your belly. It’s a possible complication of colostomy or ileostomy surgery. A prolapsed stoma may look ...

A stoma hernia, or parastomal hernia, may develop following an ileostomy. This happens when part of the intestine protrudes through a weakness in the abdominal wall around the stoma. Surgery can help ...

A colostomy prolapse is when more of the intestines shift out of an incision site after that surgery. Medications can help with pain, but another surgery is the only way to fix this if the prolapse is ...

Learning that you need an ostomy to help manage your inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) might seem daunting at first. The surgery redirects poop to exit through a stoma (an opening on your lower abdomen ...

A runner was going to the toilet 40 times a day, ended up malnourished and her brain was “shutting down” before had emergency bowel removal surgery. Charlie Ryan, 37, says she had a “minefield” of gut ...