Medically reviewed by Jamin Brahmbhatt, MD A urostomy is a surgical procedure that creates an artificial opening in the ...

Severe dysphagia significantly increases mortality risk after PEG, a new study finds. Patients with severe swallowing ...

Background and Purpose: Dysphagia is a common complication of stroke that can lead to increased aspiration pneumonia and malnutrition, prolonged hospital stay, and can necessitate the placement of a ...

Background: Prior literature has reported patterns of racial differences in percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement for patients with post-stroke dysphagia. Reasons for this disproportion ...

However, the need for a gastrostomy tube may not be apparent initially because of multiple complex health needs, especially for the premature infant. Placement of the gastrostomy tube is often the ...

[17] The second challenge in gastrostomy tube management is to maintain tube placement. For balloon tip catheters, check the balloon volume periodically, usually 1 or 2 times each week, and ...

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In a series of recent articles, we pointed out that in 2022, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) abandoned the flexible exchange rate regime that had been in place for three decades and replaced it with a ...