Overview A condition in infants in which narrowing of the opening from stomach to small intestine thereby preventing food ...

Within a short period the sonographer was able to clearly demonstrate the olive shaped lump and the typical appearance of an elongated pylorus with a thickened pyloric wall. The findings were ...

The bottom funnel section of the stomach (the pylorus) connects to your small intestine via the pyloric sphincter. This muscle acts like a valve and contracts to move stomach contents into the first ...

Numerous studies have shown an association between erythromycin and infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS). In a 2002 Vanderbilt study, Cooper and coworkers [7] reviewed charts of 804 ...

Once the prey is dissolved, the cardiac stomach, which now contains the dissolved prey, pulls back inside the sea star’s body, and its other stomach, the pyloric stomach, finishes digestion.

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, also called chronic lung disease of prematurity (CLD), is common among infants born premature and ...

Case 1. A 41-year-old man had a pyloric obstruction due to ulcer, as well as high gastric acidity. Preoperatively he was placed on gastric suction for 5 days; postoperatively, for 2 days.

These include a coordinated series of events starting with fundic accommodation of ingested food, antral contractions, pyloric relaxation, and antroduodenal coordination. [1] Interruption of this ...