Danielle Wiebusch's daughter was born with giant omphalocele, a birth defect in which abdominal organs protrude into a sac outside of the abdominal cavity. A team of surgeons at Children’s ...

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Your surgeon will stitch any gap in your abdominal muscles after pushing the organs back into the abdomen. Sometimes, if your abdominal muscles are weak, they may place a mesh to strengthen the ...

Hayes Davis, born March 25, 2011, was born with an omphalocele, a condition in which the abdominal organs are born outside the body. He received surgery Friday to put the organs back in the body.

Your abdominal muscles keep your organs and intestines in place. The protrusion of abdominal organs through a weak spot in the abdominal wall is called a hernia. Ventral hernias involve the front ...

Doctors may palpate the abdomen when doing an abdominal physical examination. Palpation can check organs, and feel for lumps, masses, or tenderness.

WEST MICHIGAN — Medical experts say that in many cases the liver, kidney, and other abdominal organs of COVID patients can still be donated and transplanted into others safely.

A 99-year-old Oregon woman may have died not knowing that many of her organs were not where they should've been. Rose Marie Bentley is thought to be the oldest person with a rare condition called ...