A perforated bowel causes sudden and severe abdominal pain and requires immediate medical care. You will often need surgery ...

A myomectomy patient suffered bowel perforation, severe sepsis and emergency surgery, resulting in an ileostomy and over ...

A perforated bowel is a serious condition, and immediate action such as surgery needs to be taken to prevent infection and death. Bacteria and stool from the bowel can spill into the abdominal cavity, ...

Adhesions from prior abdominal surgeries are the most common cause of SBO. Untreated SBO can lead to serious complications like bowel perforation or tissue death (strangulation). Symptoms of SBO ...

I am a 67-year-old physically active man. I was taking turmeric three times a day for several weeks to reduce workout-related inflammation. I ended up in the hospital with an abscess and small ...

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Having a gastrointestinal perforation—a hole somewhere along your gastrointestinal tract—probably isn't anyone's idea of a good time. Unfortunately, Matthew Perry had to endure that and spend three ...

Matthew Perry is still healing from a gastrointestinal perforation that left him bedridden for three months Emily Strohm is a Senior Editor at PEOPLE. She has been at PEOPLE for 11 years and has ...