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2,800 | 9,232 | Acute appendicitis in the pregnant patient.
Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical problem in pregnancy requiring emergent intervention.
To establish a contemporary patient profile and formulate an effective management strategy, a retrospective review was conducted of 84 pregnant patients who underwent laparo... | C06 |
2,801 | 6,333 | Endoscopic management of chronic organoaxial volvulus of the stomach.
Endoscopic correction of the chronic organoaxial volvulus of the stomach was attempted in seven cases of primary and three cases of secondary volvulus.
Endoscopic correction was successful in six cases of primary volvulus and one case of volvulus s... | C06 |
2,802 | 964 | Alternation of gastric mucosal glycoprotein (lectin-binding pattern) in gastric mucosa in stress. A light and electron microscopic study.
Gastric mucosal cells of the rat glandular stomach were studied by light and electron microscopic procedures by use of lectins in the development of acute gastric mucosal lesions.
... | C06 |
2,803 | 2,809 | The influence of sclerotherapy on gastric mucosal blood flow distribution.
Hemodynamic events and structural vascular changes of the gastric mucosa in cirrhotics have caught the attention of investigators in the recent past, but as yet it is not known whether therapeutic interruption of variceal blood flow at gastroes... | C06 |
2,804 | 5,549 | Cyclic pelvic pain.
Cyclic pelvic pain is a common gynecologic problem caused by relatively few diseases, which usually can be diagnosed and remedied quickly.
Some complaints reflect normal physiologic aspects of the menstrual cycle (mittelschmerz, menstrual awareness).
Premenstrual syndrome can be diagnosed, but an... | C06 |
2,805 | 3,334 | Bile acids and the increased risk of colorectal tumours after truncal vagotomy.
An association between colorectal cancer and previous peptic ulcer surgery is reported.
In a prospective screening study, 100 asymptomatic patients (80 men and 20 women) who had undergone truncal vagotomy at least 10 years previously were... | C06 |
2,806 | 2,151 | Long-term follow-up of the ileoanal anastomosis in children and young adults.
The purpose of this study was to carry out a long-term study of the ileoanal anastomosis (IAA) in children and young adults, comparing the straight IAA to the J pouch.
One hundred twenty-one young people who had undergone IAA were studied, ... | C06 |
2,807 | 4,537 | Portal venous gas in a patient with Crohn's disease.
Portal venous gas usually occurs in the setting of an acute abdomen.
Several causes for benign portal venous gas (PVG) have been reported.
We describe the finding of PVG by computed tomography in a febrile patient with Crohn's disease and discuss the clinical impl... | C06 |
2,808 | 7,770 | Piroxicam decreases postirradiation colonic neoplasia in the rat.
This study evaluated the effects of the nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agent piroxicam on chronic radiation proctitis in the rat.
Forty female Wistar rats received a 2250-cGy dose of irradiation to the distal 2 cm of the colon.
Twenty received piroxica... | C06 |
2,809 | 660 | Current concepts of cholesterol transport and crystal formation in human bile.
The presence of vesicles in human bile probably accounts almost entirely for the frequently observed, but hitherto unexplained, phenomenon of metastable cholesterol supersaturation.
This, in turn, largely explains the prolonged stability o... | C06 |
2,810 | 6,328 | Computerized tomography in acute gastrointestinal disorders.
In recent years, computerized tomography (CT) has become one of the most important imaging modalities in evaluation of patients with acute gastrointestinal disorders.
Its role, diagnostic accuracy, indications, and limitations in some of the most commonly e... | C06 |
2,811 | 658 | Biliary calcium and gallstone formation.
The purpose of this paper is to present a brief overview of the current status of the field of biliary calcium and the role of calcium in the formation and maturation of gallstones.
The study of free Ca+(+) ions in bile by electrochemical potentiometric measurements using Ca+(... | C06 |
2,812 | 2,951 | Pharyngoesophageal perforation after blunt neck trauma.
Pharyngoesophageal perforation secondary to blunt neck trauma is an uncommon injury that can cause serious morbidity and mortality if not recognized and treated.
Pharyngeal perforation secondary to blunt trauma sustained while boxing is reported.
Review of the ... | C06 |
2,813 | 9,342 | Aggravation of myasthenia gravis by erythromycin.
Erythromycin is not currently recognized as causing clinical aggravation of myasthenia gravis.
We report the case of a patient who experienced exacerbations of myasthenia gravis subsequent to each of several doses of intravenous erythromycin.
We suggest that erythrom... | C06 |
2,814 | 9,023 | Breast-feeding and diarrheal morbidity.
This study used a unique longitudinal survey of more than 3000 mother-infant pairs observed from pregnancy through infancy.
The sample is representative of infants from the Cebu region of the Philippines.
The sequencing of breast-feeding and diarrheal morbidity events was care... | C06 |
2,815 | 9,521 | A prospective randomized evaluation of chronic peritoneal catheters. Insertion site and intraperitoneal segment.
The insertion site (midline or through the lateral rectus muscle) and type of chronic dialysis catheter (straight or spiral intraperitoneal segment) were evaluated in a prospective randomized trial.
Dialys... | C06 |
2,816 | 9,173 | Plasma fatty acid profile in advanced cirrhosis: unsaturation deficit of lipid fractions.
Fatty acid (FA) profile of plasma total lipids, phospholipids (PL), cholesteryl esters (CE), and triglycerides (TG) were measured in 101 patients with advanced liver cirrhosis and in 44 age- and sex-matched healthy controls.
Pla... | C06 |
2,817 | 586 | The effects of synthetic human secretin on calcium carbonate solubility in human bile
This study sought to determine the effects of synthetic human secretin on ionized calcium and carbonate concentrations in human hepatic bile.
Five patients with a nasobiliary drain in the right hepatic duct were studied.
Three bas... | C06 |
2,818 | 2,111 | Synchronous carcinoma of the colon and rectum.
Reports on the incidence of synchronous carcinoma of the colon and rectum have varied from 2 to 11 per cent.
The variability is a result of a lack of uniformity in criteria of diagnosis, differences in the population studied and differences in time period used.
In this ... | C06 |
2,819 | 6,473 | Histologic similarity of murine colonic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) to human colonic GVHD and inflammatory bowel disease.
In a study designed to determine which T-cell subsets are involved in the development of murine graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a prospective histologic analysis of gastrointestinal involvem... | C06 |
2,820 | 8,661 | Bronchial asthma and acid reflux into the distal and proximal oesophagus.
The prevalence of pathological gastro-oesophageal reflux in children and adolescents with asthma was studied by 24 hour two level oesophageal pH monitoring in 42 subjects aged 9-20 years with moderate or severe bronchial asthma.
The importance ... | C06 |
2,821 | 5,676 | Diarrhea.
Diarrhea is one manifestation of GI disturbance.
Symptoms may be acute if caused by such things as infections, drug reactions, alterations in diet, heavy metal poisoning, or fecal impaction.
Chronic diarrhea is a symptom of GI diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome, lactase deficiency, cancer of the col... | C06 |
2,822 | 3,826 | Pancreatitis.
Pancreatitis is a common but rather poorly understood entity most often associated with alcohol abuse or biliary tract disease.
Despite the availability of a variety of diagnostic tests and imaging techniques, the diagnosis of pancreatitis continues to be primarily a clinical one.
Of major concern to t... | C06 |
2,823 | 7,231 | Adverse mortality experience of a southwestern American Indian community: overall death rates and underlying causes of death in Pima Indians.
As part of an ongoing epidemiologic study, the death rate and causes of death during 1975 through 1984 were determined in Pima Indians who resided in the Gila River Indian Commu... | C06 |
2,824 | 4,054 | Pathological observations of intrahepatic peribiliary glands in 1,000 consecutive autopsy livers. III. Survey of necroinflammation and cystic dilatation.
Pathological changes and significance of intrahepatic peribiliary glands, hitherto poorly recognized intrahepatic elements, have been evaluated in our laboratory.
I... | C06 |
2,825 | 4,534 | Chylous ascites should suggest constrictive pericarditis even in a patient with cirrhosis.
Chylous ascites, a milky, high triglyceride fluid is usually found in patients with lymphatic obstruction from malignancy.
We describe a patient with cirrhosis who developed constrictive pericarditis and chylous ascites.
Long-... | C06 |
2,826 | 6,008 | Normeperidine-induced seizures in hereditary coproporphyria.
Seizures are common in acute exacerbations of hepatic porphyria, even though the etiology is not identified in most cases.
We have reported a case of normeperidine-induced seizures in a patient with hereditary coproporphyria.
Although meperidine is commonl... | C06 |
2,827 | 9,201 | Maternal feeding behavior and child acceptance of food during diarrhea, convalescence, and health in the central Sierra of Peru.
Feeding patterns by mothers and child acceptance of food were measured in a Peruvian village to determine changes on days when children had diarrhea as compared to days of convalescence and ... | C06 |
2,828 | 8,457 | Gallstone pancreatitis.
Gallstone pancreatitis is caused by transient obstruction of the ampulla of Vater by a migrating gallstone.
Intraglandular activation of pancreatic enzymes occurs (by an unclear mechanism), and their entry into the circulation causes most of the local and systemic events of pancreatitis.
The ... | C06 |
2,829 | 618 | Circulating antibodies against human colonic extract enriched with a 40 kDa protein in patients with ulcerative colitis.
We have previously described a 40 kDa colonic protein(s) which is specifically recognised by tissue-bound immunoglobulin G obtained from the colon of patients with ulcerative colitis.
We now report... | C06 |
2,830 | 3,039 | The recalcitrant perineal wound after rectal extirpation. Applications of muscle flap closure.
Perineal wounds developing after abdominoperineal resection result in chronic purulent drainage and intermittent episodes of sepsis and are generally unresponsive to conservative medical and surgical treatment.
Thirteen con... | C06 |
2,831 | 2,432 | Liver pathology in morbidly obese patients with and without diabetes.
The contribution of obesity and/or diabetes to liver pathology in the morbidly obese patient is controversial.
We studied the liver biopsies of 100 consecutive patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity.
Multiple morphologic par... | C06 |
2,832 | 9,645 | Intraluminal pressure adjacent to left colonic anastomoses.
A cumulative total of 89 h of pressure data was acquired from both sides of a left colonic anastomosis in 15 patients over a median period of 7 postoperative study days.
Patients had a colonic ileus lasting 3-10 days and during this proximal and distal inact... | C06 |
2,833 | 452 | Outpatient health care utilization of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
On the basis of the normal life expectancy of inflammatory bowel disease patients, the early onset of their disease, and the variety of symptoms, inflammatory bowel disease patients were anticipated to be frequent users of outpatients serv... | C06 |
2,834 | 5,637 | Case-control study of Cryptosporidium parvum infection in Peruvian children hospitalized for diarrhea: possible association with malnutrition and nosocomial infection.
A retrospective, hospital-based case-control study was used to investigate whether there were any clinical characteristics that could distinguish Crypt... | C06 |
2,835 | 3,790 | Yersinia enterocolitica abscess of the transverse colon. Report of a case.
Yersinia enterocolitica abscess of the bowel is a rare entity.
Only five cases have previously been reported--none in the surgical literature.
A unique presentation for Yersinia infection, abscess of the transverse colon, is described, and th... | C06 |
2,836 | 3,340 | Experimental study of starch-induced intraperitoneal adhesions
The effects of starch on the development of postoperative adhesions were examined in 144 Sprague Dawley rats.
Groups of rats were injected intraperitoneally with suspensions of washings from starched gloves, starch-free gloves and starch-poor washed glov... | C06 |
2,837 | 7,159 | Perianal abscess and fistula-in-ano in children.
The authors present a retrospective review of 40 pediatric patients with perianal abscess and/or fistula-in-ano.
The total patient population could be divided clinically into 2 broad groups.
The first group consisted of 22 infants younger than 2 years of age, all of w... | C06 |
2,838 | 2,117 | Surgical management of islet cell dysmaturation syndrome in young children.
Islet cell dysmaturation syndrome (ICDS) encompasses the causes of infantile hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia histologically described as islet cell hyperplasia, pancreatic adenomatosis and nesidioblastosis.
Eleven infants underwent 14 pancreati... | C06 |
2,839 | 3,348 | Laser recanalization versus endoscopic intubation in the palliation of malignant dysphagia.
Forty patients with widely disseminated or locally advanced malignant obstruction of the middle or lower third of the oesophagus underwent endoscopic treatment by either NdYAG laser recanalization or intubation.
Groups were ma... | C06 |
2,840 | 3,003 | Study of preneoplastic changes of liver cells by immunohistochemical and molecular hybridization techniques.
The status of hepatitis B virus DNA was investigated by in situ hybridization in multifocal areas of a noncancerous hepatitis B virus-associated cirrhosis.
This liver exhibited a marked degree of dysplasia and... | C06 |
2,841 | 599 | Endosonography of peri-anal and peri-colorectal fistula and/or abscess in Crohn's disease.
Transcolorectal endosonography (ES) was performed in 36 patients with Crohn's disease suspected clinically to have a fistula or abscess.
A hypoechoic or anechoic duct-like lesion immediately adjacent to the anorectal lumen comp... | C06 |
2,842 | 6,340 | Hepatic portal venous gas: an unusual presentation of Crohn's disease.
Hepatic portal venous gas is associated with numerous conditions and traditionally has been regarded as an ominous prognostic sign.
There are several reports of hepatic portal venous gas occurring in patients with inflammatory bowel disease after ... | C06 |
2,843 | 3,753 | Systemic hemodynamic and cardiac function changes in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation.
The objective of this study was to determine the changes in systemic hemodynamics (systemic vascular resistance [SVR], cardiac output [CO], systemic blood pressure [SBP]) and cardiac function (pulmonary artery pr... | C06 |
2,844 | 5,218 | Obstructing carcinoma of the cecum.
Carcinoma of the cecum, the third most common location for malignancy of the large bowel, was examined with attention centered upon cecal cancers producing obstruction.
Reviewing 136 patients revealed 11 obstructing lesions (8.1%) presenting as distal small bowel obstructions.
The... | C06 |
2,845 | 5,105 | Renal scintigraphy in the diagnosis and surgical management of a patient with caliceal colic: a case report.
A patient with persistent renal colic and a caliceal stone is presented.
Furosemide renography, commonly used to differentiate functional stasis from mechanical obstruction of an entire kidney or duplicated co... | C06 |
2,846 | 8,849 | Esophageal motility in an adult with a congenital H-type tracheoesophageal fistula.
Congenital H-type tracheoesophageal fistulas (TEF) are rare.
Long-standing respiratory symptoms are the most common presenting complaints.
Patients with these fistulas have a congenital esophageal motor abnormality characterized by u... | C06 |
2,847 | 3,827 | Alcoholic liver disease.
Alcoholic liver disease presents a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from mild asymptomatic fatty liver to alcoholic hepatitis and severe life-threatening liver failure with ascites, hemorrhaging esophageal varices, and encephalopathy.
Although still poorly understood, the mech... | C06 |
2,848 | 3,043 | Reoperative surgery for the morbidly obese. A university experience.
Patients who undergo surgery for morbid obesity are often subjected to reoperation for a wide array of indications.
To evaluate outcome following revisional procedures, we reviewed the records of 32 such patients treated at UCLA between April 1986 a... | C06 |
2,849 | 2,813 | Toxic shock syndrome after inguinal hernia repair. Report of a case with patient survival.
A 40-year-old man developed fulminant multisystem failure several days after elective repair of an inguinal hernia.
Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) was diagnosed.
There was, however, no evidence of wound infection at the time of mu... | C06 |
2,850 | 2,113 | Congenital dilatation of the bile duct in 100 instances and its relationship with anomalous junction [published erratum appears in Surg Gynecol Obstet 1991 Mar;172(3):246]
Congenital dilatation of the bile duct (CDBD) or choledochal cyst has been demonstrated to be associated with an anomalous junction of the pancreat... | C06 |
2,851 | 9,697 | Closure of refractory perineal Crohn's lesion. Integration of hyperbaric oxygen into case management.
A case is reported in which a comprehensive program of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO), surgical debridement and reconstruction, and continuing medical management resulted in complete and sustained closure of an extensive per... | C06 |
2,852 | 4,204 | Inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysms.
In a series of 517 operations for abdominal aortic aneurysm from 1971 to 1988 there were 45 cases (8.7%) with an inflammatory aneurysm with a typical thick glistening whitish fibrous layer.
Almost two-third of the patients had rather severe chronic or acute progressive pain in... | C06 |
2,853 | 6,576 | Rectal prolapse in infants and children.
Rectal prolapse that is intractable to the usual medical therapy was successfully managed without significant complications in 10 patients by simple subcutaneous encirclement of the anus with a heavy nonabsorbable suture, which was in place until the suture was removed or broke... | C06 |
2,854 | 3,240 | Pivoting larynx--an unusual clinical observation at laryngoscopy.
Rigid oesophagoscopy was planned in the investigation of a young patient with dysphagia.
During laryngoscopy for tracheal intubation an unusual pivoting manoeuvre was required to see the vocal cords.
Although the initial diagnostic investigations were... | C06 |
2,855 | 4,023 | The role of endoscopic injection sclerotherapy in the management of bleeding peristomal varices.
Peristomal varices usually occur in patients with enterostomies who develop portal hypertension, and represent a cause of recurrent or intractable gastrointestinal bleeding.
Treatment options for such bleeding include sur... | C06 |
2,856 | 603 | Endoscopic palliative intubation of the esophagus invaded by lung cancer.
Thirty-two patients with esophageal involvement by lung cancer were managed by endoscopic intubation.
In 22 patients with extrinsic esophageal strictures, the success rate of intubation was 91%, and 82% were discharged with their dysphagia reli... | C06 |
2,857 | 3,810 | Small bowel phytobezoar mimicking presentation of Crohn's disease.
A case of small bowel phytobezoar formed from unusual ingested vegetation is described.
The patient presented with recurrent subacute obstruction and a right iliac fossa mass mimicking the presentation of Crohn's disease.
None of the usual gastrointe... | C06 |
2,858 | 6,745 | Association of acute colonic pseudo-obstruction (Ogilvie's syndrome) with herpes zoster.
Ogilvie's syndrome, or acute pseudo-obstruction of the colon is characterized by massive distension of the colon in the absence of organic distal obstruction.
The syndrome is associated with various unrelated and, most often, ext... | C06 |
2,859 | 5,898 | Interventional gallbladder procedures.
Interventional radiologic procedures in the gallbladder are influencing both the diagnosis and therapy of many gallbladder disorders.
Current diagnostic and therapeutic percutaneous techniques offer important alternatives for their management.
This article highlights the spectr... | C06 |
2,860 | 4,988 | The abdominal trauma index--a critical reassessment and validation.
The Abdominal Trauma Index (ATI) was devised to quantify the risk of complications following abdominal trauma.
With scores greater than 25, the risk of postoperative complications became exponential.
The purpose of the present study was to determine... | C06 |
2,861 | 9,211 | Antibiotic use among children in an urban Brazilian slum: a risk factor for diarrhea? [published erratum appears in Am J Public Health 1991 Apr;81(4):417]
Among a cohort of children in a poor urban setting in Brazil, the relative risk for the occurrence of a new episode of diarrhea in the two weeks following antibioti... | C06 |
2,862 | 4,040 | Hormonal and enzymatic parameters of hepatic regeneration in patients undergoing major liver resections.
Thirteen patients who underwent 40% to 80% removal of their livers had blood samples drawn initially and daily on postoperative days 1 to 7.
The enzyme marker of heightened polyamine metabolism, ornithine decarbox... | C06 |
2,863 | 5,907 | Ablation of the cystic duct and the gallbladder. Experimental basis and initial clinical observations.
Bipolar radiofrequency electrocoagulation of the cystic duct by catheter can be performed safely and reproducibly using fluoroscopic control and induces endoluminal scar formation.
The scar within the cystic duct fo... | C06 |
2,864 | 5,924 | Postoperative pancreatic abscess due to Plesiomonas shigelloides.
Plesiomonas shigelloides is being recognized with increasing frequency as a human pathogen.
The organism is ubiquitous in fresh and brackish water, and clinical illness has been associated with foreign travel and ingestion of inadequately cooked seafoo... | C06 |
2,865 | 4,950 | Azathioprine in the treatment of children with inflammatory bowel disease.
During a 6-year period, we treated 21 patients with azathioprine, 2 mg/kg/day, as an adjunct to their customary regimen.
Nine patients had ulcerative colitis and 12 patients had Crohn disease; the patients' ages ranged from 3 to 17 years.
The... | C06 |
2,866 | 4,525 | Clinical significance of cholelithiasis in patients with decompensated cirrhosis.
There is general agreement that the prevalence of gallstones in cirrhotics is high (at least twice that in the general population), but the pathogenetic link between cirrhosis and cholelithiasis is still uncertain.
The influence of chol... | C06 |
2,867 | 9,636 | Effective intraperitoneal antiprotease therapy for taurocholate-induced pancreatitis in rats
In canine pancreatitis, irreversible hypotension and death follow saturation of the antiprotease molecules in peritoneal exudate by activated proteolytic enzymes which are released from the pancreas.
This study has examined,... | C06 |
2,868 | 2,431 | The value of push-type jejunal endoscopy in familial adenomatosis coli/Gardner's syndrome.
Push-type jejunal endoscopy using a long forward-viewing duodenofiberscope was performed in 10 patients with familial adenomatosis coli/Gardner's syndrome.
Jejunal polypoid lesions were detected in nine of the 10 patients (90%)... | C06 |
2,869 | 7,453 | Mucocele of the cystic duct remnant in eight liver transplant recipients: findings at cholangiography, CT, and US.
The case histories and radiologic studies of eight liver transplant recipients who developed a mucocele of the allograft cystic duct remnant were retrospectively evaluated.
All patients had clinical and/... | C06 |
2,870 | 7,296 | Effect of the leukotriene B4 receptor antagonist SC-41930 on colonic inflammation in rat, guinea pig and rabbit.
Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
Leukotriene B4 is thought to be a prominent proinflammatory... | C06 |
2,871 | 8,572 | Cimetidine suppresses chemically induced experimental hepatic porphyria.
The ability of cimetidine to reduce the activity of hepatic aminolevulinic acid synthase (ALA-S) was examined in allylisopropyl acetamide (AIA) treated porphyric adult rats.
A dose of 20 mg cimetidine/100 gm body weight resulted in a 50% decreas... | C06 |
2,872 | 9,687 | Cigarette smoking, gastric acidity and peptic ulceration. What are the relationships?
The influence of cigarette smoking on intragastric acidity was assessed in duodenal ulcer patients in symptomatic remission and in healthy volunteers in a retrospective study.
Continuous 24-hr pH recordings in 150 nonsmokers and 174... | C06 |
2,873 | 630 | Pancreatic duct abnormalities in gall stone disease: an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatographic study.
This study was carried out to assess pancreatic duct abnormalities in gall stone disease.
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatograms of 50 patients with gall stone disease were analysed and the results co... | C06 |
2,874 | 8,516 | Persistent mullerian duct syndrome.
Persistent mullerian syndrome is rare.
A case of phenotypically normal male with persistent mullerian structures that consisted of a bicornuate uterus, fallopian tubes, and upper third of the vagina is reported.
These unusual structures were found in association with bilateral cry... | C06 |
2,875 | 443 | Effects of milk, prostaglandin, and antacid on experimentally induced duodenitis in the rat. Use of myeloperoxidase as an index of inflammation.
Ulcerogenesis of the duodenal mucosa frequently involves an inflammatory reaction with infiltration of leukocytes.
Measurement of neutrophil myeloperoxidase activity might t... | C06 |
2,876 | 6,986 | Extrahepatic biliary obstruction by lymphoma.
Extrinsic compression of the common bile duct by enlarged lymph nodes is an unusual cause of obstructive jaundice.
We describe two patients with such a manifestation of lymphoma and the use of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in distinguishing this rare comp... | C06 |
2,877 | 7,997 | Prevalence of spontaneous hepatofugal portal flow in liver cirrhosis. Clinical and endoscopic correlation in 228 patients.
The prevalence of spontaneous reversal of flow in the portal venous system was non invasively evaluated by Doppler ultrasound in 228 patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension.
Reverse... | C06 |
2,878 | 5,895 | Interventional radiologic alternatives to cholecystectomy.
It has been estimated that 20 million people in the United States have gallstone disease.
The choice of the optimal management strategy for a patient with symptomatic gallstones in the 1990s will take into account the clinical status of the patient, the chara... | C06 |
2,879 | 6,476 | Development of multiple necrotizing enteritis induced by a tumor necrosis factor-like cytokine from lipopolysaccharide-stimulated peritoneal macrophages in rats.
We report the development of an animal model of multiple necrotizing enteritis (MNE) in rats.
When rats were injected directly with a culture supernatant of... | C06 |
2,880 | 685 | Norfloxacin prevents spontaneous bacterial peritonitis recurrence in cirrhosis: results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
Eighty cirrhotic patients who had recovered from an episode of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis were included in a multicenter, double-blind trial aimed at comparing long-term norfloxac... | C06 |
2,881 | 4,305 | Crypt cell proliferation and HLA-DR expression in pelvic ileal pouches.
To investigate the nature of the morphological changes that occur in ileal pouches, 26 biopsy specimens from patients with functioning ileo-anal pouches (eight with pouchitis) were studied.
Normal ileum (n = 10) was used as a control.
Mucosal mo... | C06 |
2,882 | 9,686 | Antimony and glass pH electrodes can be used interchangeably in 24-hour studies of gastric acidity.
Antimony and glass pH electrodes show almost identical experimental errors in continuously measuring buffer solutions at constant temperature over 24 hr.
These errors are lower than the nominal quantization error of th... | C06 |
2,883 | 2,443 | Isolated ventral pancreatitis in a patient with pancreas divisum.
A previously healthy 22-yr-old woman was found to have chronic pancreatitis restricted to the ventral pancreas in association with pancreas divisum.
When conservative treatment failed, sphincteroplasty of both papillae was performed with good results.
... | C06 |
2,884 | 7,163 | Nitrite from inflammatory cells--a cancer risk factor in ulcerative colitis?
Elevated levels of luminal nitrite and a lowered luminal pH were found in 77 percent of patients with acute ulcerative colitis.
No luminal nitrite was found in healthy control subjects.
Nitrites are a secretory product of activated macropha... | C06 |
2,885 | 2,924 | Cystic tumors of the pancreas. New clinical, radiologic, and pathologic observations in 67 patients.
Within a 12-year period we treated 67 patients (49 women, 18 men; mean age, 61 years) with cystic neoplasms of the pancreas, including 18 serous cystic adenomas, 15 benign mucinous cystic neoplasms, 27 mucinous cystade... | C06 |
2,886 | 4,951 | Effects of cisapride in patients with cystic fibrosis and distal intestinal obstruction syndrome.
In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial, we investigated the effects of the prokinetic drug cisapride in patients with cystic fibrosis and chronic recurrent distal intestinal obstruction syndrome (DIOS).
A... | C06 |
2,887 | 3,791 | Ileocolic nipple valve anastomosis for preventing recurrence of surgically treated Crohn's disease. Long-term follow-up of six patients.
To prevent coloileal reflux after ileocecal resection, an ileocolic nipple valve anastomosis was constructed in six patients with Crohn's disease.
The patients were observed for mor... | C06 |
2,888 | 4,013 | Heterotopic liver transplantation for fulminant Wilson's disease.
Wilson's disease may present with severe acute hepatocellular failure.
The only effective treatment for fulminant Wilson's disease is liver transplantation, which may lead to reversal of the underlying disease.
Some patients with cirrhosis who are too... | C06 |
2,889 | 3,802 | Improved scintigraphic assessment of severe cholestasis with the hepatic extraction fraction.
In previous studies, we found that biliary scintigraphy with technetium-99m-labeled iminodiacetic acid ([99mTc]IDA) provided excellent discrimination between intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholestasis, except in patients with ... | C06 |
2,890 | 8,202 | Glutathione S-transferase. Novel vaccine against Fasciola hepatica infection in sheep.
The potential of GST as a vaccine candidate against liver fluke infection in ruminants was studied by vaccinating sheep (n = 9) with GST purified from adult worms of Fasciola hepatica and challenging with 500 F.
hepatica metacercar... | C06 |
2,891 | 581 | Effect of weight reduction on hepatic abnormalities in overweight patients.
The effects of weight reduction on hepatic test results and physical findings related to the liver were retrospectively evaluated in 39 overweight patients screened to exclude other factors affecting the liver.
An additional 11 overweight pat... | C06 |
2,892 | 4,729 | Adult immunization in a network of family practice residency programs.
A substantial proportion of morbidity and mortality associated with vaccine-preventable diseases occurs among adults.
Teaching residents about disease prevention is mandated in the curriculum guidelines for family practice programs.
A cooperative... | C06 |
2,893 | 8,744 | Serial prothrombin time as prognostic indicator in paracetamol induced fulminant hepatic failure.
OBJECTIVE--To find out whether changes in the daily prothrombin time are of prognostic importance in patients with paracetamol induced fulminant hepatic failure.
DESIGN--Retrospective study.
SETTING--The Liver Unit, Kin... | C06 |
2,894 | 6,339 | "Spontaneous sump syndrome": Successful treatment by duodenoscopic sphincterotomy.
"Sump syndrome" is a rare complication of side-to-side choledochoenterostomy operations which develops in the distal, nonfunctioning limb of the common bile duct where lithogenic bile, gastrointestinal contents, and debris accumulate.
... | C06 |
2,895 | 624 | Low diacylglycerol values in colonic adenomas and colorectal cancer.
The biochemical events that make colonic epithelial cells proceed along the adenoma-carcinoma sequence are not well understood.
The phosphoinositol signal transduction pathway is involved in the regulation of cell growth and differentiation.
To det... | C06 |
2,896 | 965 | Generation of ammonia and mucosal lesion formation following hydrolysis of urea by urease in the rat stomach.
We examined the morphological changes in gastric mucosa and the generation of ammonia after exposure of the rat stomach to urea in the presence of urease, in attempts to investigate a pathophysiological role o... | C06 |
2,897 | 8,319 | Sexually transmitted causes of gastrointestinal symptoms in homosexual men.
The possible etiologic agents that may cause gastrointestinal complaints in homosexually active men are multiple, and their diagnosis is complex.
This article presents a logical approach to the work-up and diagnosis of gastrointestinal compla... | C06 |
2,898 | 2,437 | Comparison of a new immunoassay for determining serum pancreatic isoamylase with two standard techniques.
A method has recently been developed for measuring serum pancreatic (P) isoamylase, using two monoclonal antibodies specific for salivary isoamylase.
We performed this test on 67 healthy controls and 133 patients... | C06 |
2,899 | 9,682 | Edrophonium provocative test in noncardiac chest pain. Evaluation of testing techniques.
Edrophonium chloride is used frequently as a provocative agent in the assessment of noncardiac chest pain (NCCP).
However, the optimum dose and most appropriate method of interpreting test results is controversial.
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