Talk:Volvulus

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The previous version of this article stated the following:

Volvulus is more common in children than adults, and is the second-leading cause of short bowel syndrome (following Crohn's disease).

However, my source (indicated in the article) states exactly the following:

A life-threatening obstruction in which the bowel twists on itself (volvulus) with occlusion of the blood supply occurs most frequently in middle-aged and elderly men.

For the time being, I've removed the old reference in favor of the new, sourced reference. If there is another reference that supports the previous statement, we should re-visit the reference and discuss the issue further. -- backburner001 21:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weird sentence.

"A volvulus is a loop of the bowel whose nose has twisted on itself." What do they mean their nose twisted on themselves? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jupiter849 (talk • contribs) 23:53, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It means that there are vandals in this world. You can see the change here. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:34, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Treatment -- NG tube

I'm only a patient, not a doctor, but can now testify firsthand that NG tube should be included among treatment options (as the NG tube article says). --Briankharvey (talk) 01:43, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No Key to Abdominal xray

The xray included in this article has no explaination of what we are looking for. Yes you cansee there is dilated bowel, however, where is the volvulus? How do we know this is volvulus as apposed to obstruction/psudoobstruction...? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.156.198 (talk) 09:23, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

I think it is reasonable to have them split. This is about the general topic while the other one is a specific type. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:31, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hiadel hernia 160.72.27.66 (talk) 23:10, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]