Diabetes and Bladder and Bowel Control. People with diabetes commonly experience problems with controlling their bladder and bowel. The incontinence refers to bladder and bowel control problems. This can involve accidental leakage, incomplete emptying, passing urine frequently (frequency) or feeling the need to rush to the toilet (urgency). Poor control of the bladder and bowel is an important health problem.
The Whipple Procedure Explained. The Whipple procedure is more than just an alternative for the mouthful word pancreaticoduodenoctomy. It is more than a major surgical procedure to remove a portion of the pancreas, bile duct, gallbladder, duodenum and stomach. It is a ray of light amidst the darkness that is pancreatic cancer.
Radical removal of the head of the pancreas, the entire duodenum, a portion of the jejunum, the distal third of teh stomach, and the lower half of the common bile duct, w/reconstruction utilizing anastomosis of biliary intestinal continuity. Whipple Procedure.