If you have a fecal impaction, it's common to experience symptoms like abdominal pain and bloating, difficulty ...

Yepuri, MDDisimpaction is a procedure to treat fecal impaction caused by a large, hardened lump of stool (poop) stuck in the rectum. Chronic constipation can make passing stool difficult, leading to ...

Colonoscopy and fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) are accepted strategies for colorectal-cancer screening in the average-risk population.In this randomized, controlled trial involving asymptomatic ...

Association Between Time to Colonoscopy After a Positive Fecal Test Result and Risk of Colorectal Cancer and Cancer Stage at Diagnosis. JAMA, 2017; 317 (16): 1631 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.3634; ...

Colonoscopy may be the preferred way to screen for colon cancer, but a method that doesn’t require a hospital visit may be just as effective Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV Subscribe Subscribe ...

Clearly, colonoscopy has an image problem. That's not a huge surprise, since colonoscopy is invasive, inconvenient and expensive, and a fecal occult blood test, which looks for blood in the stool ...

Without treatment, long-standing constipation can lead to bowel problems such as anal fissures. Some can lead to serious problems, such as fecal impaction, which could lead to hospitalization ...

Half of them received a fecal transplant through a capsule and half of them through a colonoscopy. About 96 percent of people in both groups were free from the infection after 12 weeks.

June 16 -- MONDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Screening colonoscopies for colon cancer may be too risky for some elderly patients, a new study finds. Of all the screening methods for colon cancer ...

It looked at more than 30 studies on tests, called fecal immunochemical test (FIT), which need to be done annually. "There are different ways of getting screened," Dr. Jon LaPook said.