A new sticker changes in shape inside the body, enabling standard ultrasound technology to detect leaks for earlier detection and intervention. John Rogers, Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey ...

After surgery on the stomach, small intestine, or pancreas, patients are at serious risk of developing a complication called anastomotic leaks, when gastrointestinal fluids can escape the digestive ...

A simple little sticker could soon be saving the lives of patients recovering from gastrointestinal surgery. The clever device is designed to detect the presence of leaking digestive fluids sooner ...

Researchers led by Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new, first-of-its-kind sticker that enables clinicians to monitor the health of ...

Gastrointestinal surgeries carry risk of fluid leaks, a potentially life-threatening complication. But no existing methods can reliably and non-invasively detect these leaks. To address this unmet ...