volvulus

After the surgeon found Chase's intestines were full of dying tissue, due to a disease called volvulus, his parents were told he might survive with an intestinal transplant.

naplesnews.com Stories LIZ FREEMAN 2010

•The five breeds with the highest relative proportion of death from gastrointestinal causes including parvovirus and gastric dilation and volvulus syndrome — known as bloat were Great Dane, Gordon setter, Akita, Shar-pei and Weimeraner.

Diseases that kill dogs tend to affect specific breeds 2011

There are a number of dramatic scenes on operating tables in Cutting for Stone: the twins 'births, Thomas Stone amputating his own finger, Ghosh untwisting Colonel Mebratu's volvulus, the liver transplant, etc.

Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese: Questions 2009

There are a number of dramatic scenes on operating tables in Cutting for Stone: the twins 'births, Thomas Stone amputating his own finger, Ghosh untwisting Colonel Mebratu's volvulus, the liver transplant, etc.

Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese: Questions 2009

Called Onchocerca volvulus, these animals, male and female, spend their ten-year-long lives in these nodules, making thousands of babies.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Like guinea worms, O. volvulus has no vaccine, but it does have a partial cure.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

River blindness: A disease caused by Onchocerca volvulus, a parasitic nematode.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

One is Onchocerca volvulus, the worm that travels in black flies and causes river blindness.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

The filarial worms have essentially the same life cycle as O. volvulus, and the same susceptibility to ivermectin.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Parasitologists have discovered that ivermectin actually works effectively against many other parasites, including O. volvulus.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009