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Severe chronic bowel obstruction associated with brown bowel syndrome

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2020
A 61-year-old alcoholic male with history of cholecystectomy presented with a 20-year history of recurrent bowel obstruction and a 30 lb weight loss. After numerous attempts at conservative management, exploratory laparotomy was performed, which showed ...
Yan Chen Wongworawat, Robert Propst, Anwar Raza, Bonnie Rohweller, Lourdes Swentek, Craig William Zuppan, Camilla Cobb   +6 more
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Pediatric intestinal pseudo-obstruction: Role of histopathology

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2020
Pediatric intestinal pseudo-obstruction (PIPO) is a rare and debilitating clinical disorder characterized by gastrointestinal motility dysfunction, resulting in symptoms suggestive of total or partial intestinal obstruction in the absence of any lumen ...
Ana Luiza Melo dos Santos, Rafaela Wander Almeida Braga, Heinrich Bender Kohnert Seidler, Rodrigo Pinheiro de Abreu Miranda, Ivânia Itália Teixeira Salvador, Elisa de Carvalho   +5 more
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Recent Advances of Slip Sensors for Smart Robotics

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent progress in robotic slip sensors across mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, and acoustic mechanisms, offering a comprehensive reference for the selection of slip sensors in robotic applications. In addition, current challenges and emerging trends are identified to advance the development of robust, adaptive,
Xingyu Zhang, Liao Wu, Shuai He, Zhao Sha, Yuwan Huang, Shuying Wu, Dewei Chu, Chun H. Wang, Shuhua Peng   +8 more
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Small cell lung cancer associated small bowel obstruction, a diagnostic conundrum: A case report

Clinical Case Reports
Key clinical message Small cell lung cancer (SCLC), a neuroendocrine aggressive subtype of lung cancer, is associated with paraneoplastic disorders in about 9% of patients.
Mohammad Ayoub, Mohannad Natheef AbuHaweeleh, Nabil Mahmood, Colin Clelland, Malak Mohammad Ayoub, Harman Saman   +5 more
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Spontaneous transverse colon volvulus in a patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: An unreported complication

Radiology Case Reports, 2023
A 22-year-old male patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and chronic constipation presents to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain and hive closed to feces and gas.
Pietro Pitrone, MD, Antonino Cattafi, MD, Francesca Magnani, MD, Maria Ludovica Carerj, MD, Italo Giuseppe Bellone, MD, Giuseppe Nirta, MD, Enrico Monsù, MD, Dora Bonanno, MD, Renato Trimarchi, MD, Alessandro La Face, MD, Maria Adele Marino, MD, Carmelo Sofia, MD   +11 more
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Advanced Manufacturing of Composite‐Based Systems for Energy Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Advanced manufacturing enables the integration of polymers, ceramics, metal oxides, and composites into architected microstructures with tailored transport pathways. By coupling material selection, manufacturing strategy, and structural design, multifunctional energy systems can simultaneously improve electrochemical performance, thermal management ...
Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Dhanush Patil, Libin Yang, M. Taylor Sobczak, Anshul Kulkarni, Xiao Sun, Arunachalam Ramanathan, Tiantian Li, Ramaraja P. Ramasamy, Jason J. Locklin, Yanyu Chen, Xianqiao Wang, Arunachala Mada Kannan, Kenan Song   +13 more
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Chronic Pseudo-Obstruction of the Sigmoid Colon: A Case Report

Acta Clinica Croatica, 2022
Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIPO) is a rare syndrome characterized by signs of intestinal obstruction lasting for 6 months or more, in the absence of a definitive cause of obstruction. We report a case of CIPO in a 49-year-old female patient
Ivan Vulić, Matija Šestan-Peša, Dubravka Mužina Mišić, Ivana Pavić, Mario Živković, Ivan Budimir, Davor Hrabar, Neven Ljubičić, Marko Nikolić   +8 more
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LLM‐Integrated Human–Robot Interaction System for Microrobots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This paper proposes an LLM‐based control framework for guiding microrobots using human natural language. This framework can convert the natural human speech into safe and executable command sets for reliable navigation in complex environments. The experimental results show high accuracy and robustness in task performance, demonstrating the potential of
Bairong Zhu, Amar Salehi, Tingting Yu
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Enteric neuropathy – when a surgeon is not immediately needed

Folia Neuropathologica
Peripheral neuropathies with involvement of the autonomic nervous system are a recognized cause of gastrointestinal dysmotility. We describe a patient with chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIPO) in the course of chronic inflammatory demyelinating ...
Dorota Dziewulska, Anna Potulska-Chromik, Piotr Szczudlik   +2 more
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Mr BMT Achieves Systemic Macrophage Replacement With Preservation of Tissue Homeostasis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Microglia replacement by bone marrow transplantation (Mr BMT) enables systemic replacement of tissue‐resident macrophages. Despite persistent macrophage and tissue remodeling across multiple organs, core biological functions and innate immune responses remain preserved, supporting long‐term maintenance of organismal homeostasis and the therapeutic ...
Yufei Xu, Miaozhan Zou, Yunshang Bai, Yang He, Zhihao Jin, Baozhi Yang, Jinjin Du, Pei Ouyang, Yuanyuan Cai, Yuheng Zhang, Bingying Du, Chengcheng Ge, Jian‐an Gong, Xiaoyu Li, Yuanyi Zheng, Jing Ding, Bo Peng, Yanxia Rao   +17 more
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