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Gallstones: Should I Have Gallbladder Surgery?
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Abdominal Fullness or Bloating
Abdominal Pain and Other Illness
Abdominal Pain Causes
Abdominal Pain Following an Injury
Acid-Reducing Medicines
Adjustable Gastric Banding Surgery
Anal Fistulas and Crohn's Disease
Ascites and Liver Disease
Asthma and GERD
Belly (Abdominal) Gas in Babies
Biliopancreatic Diversion With or Without a Duodenal Switch
Bowel Movements in Babies
Bowel Resection
Bowel Resection for Colorectal Cancer
Cancer: Home Treatment for Constipation
Cancer: Home Treatment for Diarrhea
Capsaicin
Carbohydrates, Proteins, Fats, and Blood Sugar
Cardiac Cachexia
Caregiving: Using a Bedside Commode (Toilet)
Causes of Bleeding in the Gastrointestinal Tract
Chronic Constipation
Chronic Pancreatitis: Pain Management
Cirrhosis Complications: Encephalopathy
Cirrhosis Complications: Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
Cirrhosis Complications: Variceal Bleeding
Cirrhosis: Beta-Blockers for Portal Hypertension and Varices
Cirrhosis: Surgical Shunts for Portal Hypertension
Cirrhosis: Vasoconstrictor Medicines for Variceal Bleeding
Cleaning Up Diarrhea
Colorectal Cancer Screening
Colostomy
Common Types of Hernias
Complications of Peptic Ulcer
Constipation in Children
Constipation: Keeping Your Bowels Healthy
Crohn's Disease: Problems Outside the Digestive Tract
Crohn's Disease: When Surgery Is Needed
Dementia: Bladder and Bowel Problems
Diabetes and Constipation or Diarrhea
Diabetes: How to Prepare for a Colonoscopy
Dyspepsia
Endoscopic Treatment for Variceal Bleeding
Feeding Your Premature Infant
Following a Low-Fiber Diet
Fructose or Sorbitol Intolerance
Full Liquid Diets
Fulminant Hepatitis
Fundoplication Surgery for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
Gallstone Symptoms: When Surgery Is Needed
Gas (Flatus)
Gas, Burping, or Bloating That Begins After Eating or Drinking
Gastric Bypass Surgery
Gastric Sleeve Surgery
GERD: Esophageal Erosion and Ulcers
Getting Enough Fiber
Heartburn During Pregnancy
Heartburn Symptom Record
Heartburn: Changing Your Eating Habits
Helicobacter Pylori Bacteria
Hemorrhoidectomy
Hepatitis B and C: Risk of Liver Cancer
Hepatitis B Treatment Recommendations
Hepatitis B: Postvaccination Test for Immunity
Hepatitis C: Your Risk for Cirrhosis
Hepatitis D
Hidden Gluten
Ileoanal Anastomosis for Ulcerative Colitis
Incision of External Hemorrhoids
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Cancer Risk
Infrared Photocoagulation for Hemorrhoids
Inguinal Hernia: Surgery in Adults
Intraoperative Cholangiogram
Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Criteria for Diagnosis
Laparoscopic Gallbladder Removal Surgery for Gallstones
Laparoscopic Surgery
Laxatives
Liposuction
Liver Resection
Liver Transplant
Liver Transplant in Children
Living With an Ostomy
Lung Transplant for Cystic Fibrosis
Marine Toxins
Medicines or Vitamins That Can Cause Gas, Bloating, or Burping
Medicines That Can Cause Abdominal Pain
Medicines That Can Cause Constipation
Medicines That Can Cause Diarrhea
Medicines That Can Cause Heartburn
Medicines That Can Cause Nausea and Vomiting
Medicines That Can Cause Pancreatitis
MELD Score (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease)
Mild, Moderate, or Severe Diarrhea
Monitoring During Anesthesia
Multi-Organ Transplants
Nonprescription Antacids for Heartburn
Object Stuck in a Child's Airway
Object Stuck in the Throat
Open Gallbladder Surgery for Gallstones
Open Inguinal Hernia Repair (Herniorrhaphy, Hernioplasty)
Pain Management Clinic
Pancreas Transplant
Perforation
Postcholecystectomy Syndrome
Pregnancy: Changes in Bowel Habits
Pregnancy: Hemorrhoids and Constipation
Probiotics
Proctocolectomy and Ileostomy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Protect Yourself From Hepatitis A When Traveling
Pushing a Rectal Prolapse Into Place
Rectal Problems Caused by Abuse
Recurrent Abdominal Pain (RAP)
Repair of Rectocele or Enterocele
Rubber Band Ligation for Hemorrhoids
Scleroderma
Spitting Up
Stroke: Bladder and Bowel Problems
Swallowed Air
Swallowed Button Disc Battery, Magnet, or Object With Lead
Tips for Swallowing Medicines
Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS)
Treating a Twisting Bowel Obstruction
Types of Peptic Ulcers
Types of Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis: Problems Outside the Digestive Tract
Weight-Loss (Bariatric) Surgery
Weight-Loss Medicines
Whipple Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer
Advance Care Planning: Should I Have Artificial Hydration and Nutrition?
Colorectal Cancer: Which Screening Test Should I Have?
Gallstones: Should I Have Gallbladder Surgery?
GERD: Which Treatment Should I Use?
Hemorrhoids: Which Treatment Should I Use?
Hepatitis B: Should I Be Tested?
Hepatitis B: Should I Take Antiviral Medicine for Chronic Hepatitis B?
Inguinal Hernia: Should I Have Surgery Now, or Should I Wait?
Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Should I Have Surgery?
Ulcerative Colitis: Should I Have Surgery?
Umbilical Hernia: Should I Have Surgery?
Umbilical Hernia: Should My Child Have Surgery?
Bowel Disease: Caring for Your Ostomy
Bowel Disease: Changing Your Diet
Celiac Disease: Eating a Gluten-Free Diet
GERD: Controlling Heartburn by Changing Your Habits
Hepatitis B: How to Avoid Spreading the Virus
Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Controlling Symptoms With Diet
Tube Feeding: Living With a Feeding Tube
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