{"id":24,"date":"2020-02-15T06:57:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T06:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patientwebsense.azurewebsites.net\/?p=24"},"modified":"2020-06-02T09:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T09:19:33","slug":"all-about-stomach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/post\/2020\/02\/15\/all-about-stomach\/","title":{"rendered":"All about the Stomach"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count\" data-postid=\"24\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"8\" style=\"\"><i class=\"fa fa-heart-o\" style=\"color:red; font-size:35px;\"><\/i><span class=\"simplefavorite-button-count\" style=\"color:#dd3333;\">8<\/span><\/span>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stomach-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131\" width=\"466\" height=\"502\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stomach<\/strong>, saclike expansion of the digestive system, between the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/esophagus\">esophagus<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/small-intestine\">small intestine<\/a>; it is located in the anterior portion of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/abdominal-cavity\">abdominal cavity<\/a>&nbsp;in most vertebrates. The stomach serves as a temporary receptacle for storage and mechanical distribution of food before it is passed into the intestine. In animals whose stomachs contain digestive glands, some of the chemical processes of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/digestion-biology\">digestion<\/a>&nbsp;also occur in the stomach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThe human stomach is subdivided into four regions: the fundus, an expanded area curving up above the cardiac opening (the opening from the stomach into the esophagus); the body, or intermediate region, the central and largest portion; the antrum, the lowermost, somewhat funnel-shaped portion of the stomach; and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/pylorus\">pylorus<\/a>, a narrowing where the stomach joins the small intestine. Each of the openings, the cardiac and the pyloric, has a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/sphincter-muscle\">sphincter muscle<\/a>&nbsp;that keeps the neighbouring region closed, except when food is passing through. In this manner, food is enclosed by the stomach until ready for digestion.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1>Gastrectomy<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"328\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stomach-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stomach-2.jpg 700w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stomach-2-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SURGICAL PROCEDURE <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gastrectomy<\/strong>, surgical removal of all or part of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/stomach\">stomach<\/a>. This procedure is used to remove both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/benign\">benign<\/a>&nbsp;and malignant neoplasms (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/tumor\">tumours<\/a>) of the stomach, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/adenocarcinoma\">adenocarcinoma<\/a>&nbsp;and lymphoma of the stomach. A variety of less-common benign tumours of the stomach or stomach wall can also be successfully treated with partial gastrectomy. In addition, the operation is sometimes used to treat&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/peptic-ulcer\">peptic ulcers<\/a>&nbsp;because it eliminates the gastric-acid-secreting parietal cells in the stomach lining and halts the production of the acid-stimulating hormone gastrin, thus removing the underlying cellular substances that give rise to an ulcer. Once a common method of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/therapeutics\">treatment<\/a>&nbsp;for patients with painful ulcers, gastrectomy is now used only as a last resort if the appropriate drugs have failed or if an ulcer is perforated or hemorrhaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most common procedure is&nbsp;antrectomy, which removes the lower half of the stomach (antrum), the chief site of gastrin secretion. The remaining stomach is then reconnected to the first section of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/small-intestine\">small intestine<\/a>&nbsp;(duodenum). In a more extensive procedure,&nbsp;subtotal gastrectomy, as much as three-quarters of the stomach is removed, including all of the antrum. The remaining stomach may then be reattached directly to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/duodenum\">duodenum<\/a>&nbsp;or to the jejunum, a more distal part of the intestine beyond the usual site of ulceration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long-term survival rates of patients with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/stomach-cancer\">stomach cancer<\/a>&nbsp;who undergo gastrectomy vary widely; for example, patients with early stage cancer have high five-year survival rates, typically around 90 percent, whereas patients with late-stage cancers have low five-year survival rates, generally less than 10 percent. Gastrectomy is often accompanied by&nbsp;gastric lymphadenectomy (removal of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/lymph\">lymph<\/a>&nbsp;nodes associated with the stomach), which can improve survival rate in some stomach cancer patients. The incidence of ulcer recurrence after gastrectomy is very low (about 2 percent) when the antrum is completely removed. The most significant drawback to gastrectomy is general malnutrition, caused by decreased appetite and by the stomach\u2019s decreased ability to digest food.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count\" data-postid=\"24\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"8\" style=\"\"><i class=\"fa fa-heart-o\" style=\"color:red; font-size:35px;\"><\/i><span class=\"simplefavorite-button-count\" style=\"color:#dd3333;\">8<\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 Stomach, saclike expansion of the digestive system, between the&nbsp;esophagus&nbsp;and the&nbsp;small intestine; it is located in the anterior portion of the&nbsp;abdominal cavity&nbsp;in most vertebrates. The stomach serves as a temporary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/post\/2020\/02\/15\/all-about-stomach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All about the Stomach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"_wp_attached_file":"","_wp_attachment_metadata":"","binder":"","page_end":"","page_start":"","parent:binder":"","DateTime":"","Dislikes":"","Likes":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","_EventTimezone":"","views":"701","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"5","post_likes_plusCounter":"8","simplefavorites_count":"8","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allocaretest.caredx.com\/es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}