Merit Medical Systems MMSI announced the U.S. commercial launch of its Resilience Through-the-Scope (TTS) Esophageal Stent. The Resilience stent expands the company’s endoscopy portfolio, adding to ...

Anyone who has Crohn’s disease knows that its symptoms — abdominal cramps, diarrhea, constipation — are unpleasant. Worrying about more serious complications of Crohn's disease, such as strictures, is ...

Management of men with anterior urethral stricture disease is a relatively common issue faced by practicing urologists today. Anterior urethral strictures, which can be the result of congenital, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bartel and colleagues assigned 3 mg budesonide orally twice a day for 8 weeks to 25 patients who underwent ...

The urethra is the thin tube that carries urine from the urinary bladder out of the body. A urethral stricture is when narrowing from scar tissue occurs in the urethra. Urethral strictures can ...

The differentiation of benign and malignant strictures is difficult. Recently, a group of clinical specialists in Netherlands attempted to find possible criteria for differentiation of malignant from ...

Editor's Note: In August, a Medscape reader wrote in with the question, "Is Infliximab Appropriate for Stricturing-Type Crohn's Disease?" Gastroenterologist Bret A. Lashner, MD, responded to this ...

STRICTURES of the human urethra are of three types: inflammatory, traumatic and congenital. The basic histology 1 common to all strictures is a proliferation of fibroblasts in the tunica propria. This ...

To the Editor: The important contribution by Goulston and McGovern in the August 7 issue of the NEJM presents "evidence that stricture formation in ulcerative colitis is due to hypertrophy and ...

Aug. 7, 2002 -- Routine direct vision internal urethrotomy (DVIU) is better than treating only on recurrence for urethral strictures, according to the results of a prospective, randomized trial ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “The appropriate diagnosis and management of biliary strictures has important implications in endoscopic, ...