Shriya S Srinivasan, Julien Dosso, Hen-Wei Huang, George Selsing, Amro Alshareef, Johannes Kuosmanen, Keiko Ishida, Joshua Jenkins, Wiam Abdalla Mohammed Madani, Alison Hayward, Giovanni Traverso
Postoperative ileus (POI) is the leading cause of prolonged hospital stay after abdominal surgery and is characterized by a functional paralysis of the digestive tract, leading to symptoms such as constipation, vomiting, and functional obstruction. Current treatments are mainly supportive and inefficacious and yield acute side effects. Although electrical stimulation studies have demonstrated encouraging pacing and entraining of the intestinal slow waves, no devices exist today to enable targeted intestinal reanimation...
February 28, 2024: Science Robotics