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The UAB Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery dedicated to excellent patient care, advancing surgical knowledge through innovative research and training future surgeons in an inclusive environment. Our ...

Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision (taTME), also known as ‘bottom-up' surgery, is a new minimally invasive robotic alternative to conventional surgery for patients with lower rectal cancer. The main ...

Performance of colonoscopy is unchanged in patients who have undergone obesity surgery -- however, care should be given to the preparation because these individuals are unable to tolerate large ...

Lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB ... effectively promote hemostasis. Surgery is the final approach for severe bleeding. In most cases, bleeding will stop spontaneously Mortality is higher ...

And occasionally the operator may accidentally perforate the wall of the gastrointestinal tract, necessitating emergency surgery. In an attempt to mitigate these risks, two researchers in Japan ...