Acute intestinal ischemia

This trial is testing whether a catheter that suctions out blood clots can restore blood flow to the intestine in people with acute mesenteric ischemia, a life-threatening blockage of the artery feeding the gut. Participants will undergo thrombus aspiration, and if needed, laparo…

This study tests a structured nutrition plan for 300 ICU patients who had abdominal surgery and cannot eat normally. The plan includes IV nutrition, oral supplements, and a device to measure calorie needs. Researchers will track infections, ICU stay length, and muscle loss to see…

This study was designed to test whether a supplement called chondroitin sulfate is safe for newborns with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a severe gut infection. The plan was to give the supplement to very low birth weight babies for two days and compare their outcomes to those …

This study looks back at over 2,400 people diagnosed with acute mesenteric ischemia (a sudden blockage of blood flow to the intestine) in a region of Sweden between 2000 and 2023. Researchers want to understand how often it occurs, how treatments and survival have changed over ti…