Word: ileum
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...fact that shortening the digestive tract cuts down on caloric absorption, enabling excessively overweight people to shed pounds regardless of how much they eat. To perform it, the surgeon severs the small intestine near the end of the jejunum, or second section, and connects it to the ileum just above the beginning of the colon. This in turn reduces the length of the active small intestine from 23 feet to a mere 30 inches, drastically lessening the time it takes for food to pass through the system. This reduces the amount of digested material that can be absorbed through...
...hour period last May. During the 90-minute operations, Drouin apparently became confused. Working "up to his elbows," as he put it later, he mixed up the different clamps he used to mark the ends of the bypassed small intestine. As a result, he hooked the ileum to the colon, connected the end of the small intestine to the jejunum (see diagram...
Last month the Memorial surgeons reopened Jane Smith's abdomen. Satisfied that she was free of cancer, they disconnected their short circuit. Then they opened Anne's abdomen and removed about five feet of small intestine (the lower jejunum and upper ileum), and used this to replace Jane's missing tract. The surgeons also left a small, separate piece of the graft protruding through the abdominal wall, to facilitate observation of the transplant's progress. Last week the courageous donor was eating normally, and she expects to go home within a few days. Recipient Jane, after...
...operated on at Norristown and at Bryn Mawr Hospital, the desired loss in weight has been accompanied by a lowering of cholesterol level or blood pressure, or both. A rare advantage of this operation is that it is reversible-if weight loss becomes too great, the jejunum and ileum can be hooked up again in the way that nature intended...
...conclusion that Ike's type of operation, which has been abandoned in some medical centers, must have been wrong. They cited impressive authorities. Dr. Burrill B. Crohn, who first described and named the disease, says in his basic text, Regional Ileitis, that cutting off the diseased ileum "is a sine qua non to the success of any operation." Less than two years ago, at a doctors' round table, New York Hospital Surgeon William F. Nickel Jr. said to Crohn: "One should never [join] small bowel to large bowel . . . without dividing the small bowel, because those patients invariably...