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3,200 | 3,784 | Endometrioma. An intra-abdominal troublemaker.
A ten-year review of intestinal and abdominal wall endometriomas is reported.
Seven cases of intestinal and two cases of abdominal wall endometriomas are presented.
Symptoms were varied but a majority had some gynecologic complaint.
In this select group of patients, pr... | C06 |
3,201 | 3,785 | Enteroglucagon and peptide Y-Y response after construction of a pelvic reservoir in humans.
The results of an investigation of plasma levels of gastrointestinal hormones in patients after the construction of a pelvic reservoir are reported.
Enteroglucagon (EG) and peptide tyrosine-tyrosine (PYY), two hormones believe... | C06 |
3,202 | 4,024 | Variceal sclerosis in schistosomotic patients: a 5-year follow-up study.
To assess the therapeutic possibilities of injection sclerosis in schistosomotic portal hypertension, a 5-year prospective study was conducted in northeast Brazil, where this parasitosis is endemic.
Fifty patients undergoing endoscopy for upper ... | C06 |
3,203 | 2,438 | In vivo evaluation of monopolar versus bipolar electrosurgical polypectomy snares.
The energy required and tissue damage in bipolar and monopolar polypectomy snares were compared in a canine model.
The bipolar snare required an average of 34 joules of energy, whereas the monopolar snare required 228 joules to cut the... | C06 |
3,204 | 4,014 | Caseating hepatic granulomas in Hodgkin's lymphoma.
A 68-year-old man presented with recurrent Hodgkin's lymphoma after a 9-year disease-free interval induced by chemotherapy.
In addition to histological evidence of recurrent Hodgkin's disease, the liver biopsy specimen showed extensive caseating granulomas.
Culture... | C06 |
3,205 | 9,362 | Hepatic cyst associated with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome.
A solitary hepatic cyst, associated with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, is described.
To our knowledge, this association has not been previously reported.
A developmental anomaly or hamartomatous nature of this lesion is suggested.
Knowledge of this association may be h... | C06 |
3,206 | 6,071 | Esophageal reflux before and after isolated myotomy for achalasia.
Four patients with achalasia underwent 24-hour esophageal pH measurements as ambulatory patients before and after limited myotomy without fundoplication.
Resting lower esophageal sphincter pressure was reduced from 24.3 +/- 1.3 mm Hg to 7.5 +/- 4.3 mm... | C06 |
3,207 | 607 | Endoscopic appearance and significance of functional lymphangiectasia of the duodenal mucosa.
Intestinal lymphangiectasia is found in a wide variety of pathologic conditions.
Functional lymphangiectasia has not been well characterized.
We report 20 patients followed for 9 to 55 months (mean 30 months) after incident... | C06 |
3,208 | 9,922 | Prevention of a false diagnosis of sexually acquired reactive arthritis by synovial lymphocyte responses.
Three cases are reported in which a diagnosis of sexually acquired reactive arthritis might have been made erroneously from the history, but the enteric origin of the reactive arthritis was evident from synovial l... | C06 |
3,209 | 8,452 | Pathogenesis of gallstones.
The many developments in nonoperative methods for the treatment of gallstone disease underscore the importance of understanding the pathogenesis of these stones.
Elucidation of the factors responsible for nucleation of crystals and the mechanism by which it occurs would appear to be the ch... | C06 |
3,210 | 2,425 | Prospective randomized comparison of Brown-McHardy and microvasive balloon dilators in treatment of achalasia.
We report the results of a randomized prospective study comparing a standard bougie rubber balloon dilator [Brown-McHardy (BMH)] and a newer polyethylene dilator passed over a guide wire [Microvasive Rigiflex... | C06 |
3,211 | 676 | HBV-DNA detection by gene amplification in acute hepatitis B.
Serum samples from 62 women, inadvertently infected with hepatitis B virus in an in vitro fertilization program, were tested for the presence of hepatitis B virus-DNA using the polymerase chain reaction.
Under conditions of a strict spatial separation of D... | C06 |
3,212 | 3,800 | Dynamic CT scanning of pancreatic duct after secretin provocation in pancreas divisum.
Variations in pancreatic duct diameter at CT scanning and serum pancreatic amylase response following secretin administration were studied in 29 patients with pancreas divisum and unexplained upper abdominal pain.
Eleven healthy in... | C06 |
3,213 | 3,727 | Computed tomography in patients with esophageal perforation.
Contrast esophagram is the diagnostic procedure of choice in patients with clinically suspected perforation of the esophagus.
In patients in whom the usual clinical signs or symptoms are unrecognized and in whom the diagnosis is obscure, the diagnosis of a ... | C06 |
3,214 | 2,427 | Healing or amelioration of esophagitis does not result in increased lower esophageal sphincter or esophageal contractile pressure [published erratum appears in Am J Gastroenterol 1991 Feb;86(2):253]
There is conflicting evidence regarding whether lower esophageal sphincter and esophageal contractile pressures are affe... | C06 |
3,215 | 0 | Evaluation of women with possible appendicitis using technetium-99m leukocyte scan.
The authors evaluated the use of technetium-99m albumin colloid white blood cell (TAC-WBC) scan in women with possible appendicitis.
One hundred and nine women underwent 110 TAC-WBC scans.
One woman had a second scan on a separate ad... | C06 |
3,216 | 9,178 | Primary adrenal insufficiency: a new cause of reversible gastric stasis.
Primary adrenal insufficiency is known to cause a wide spectrum of sometimes severe upper gastrointestinal symptoms; however, it has not previously been shown to be the cause of reversible gastric stasis.
We have documented such a case in which ... | C06 |
3,217 | 657 | Pathogenesis of biliary sludge.
The increasing application of ultrasonography in biliary tract disease had led to more frequent recognition of an old disorder--"biliary sludge." Sludge is detected on ultrasound as low-amplitude echoes without acoustic shadowing.
It layers in the most dependent part of the gallbladder... | C06 |
3,218 | 5,905 | Technical aspects of biliary extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
Radiologic imaging procedures play a major role in the evaluation of the potential patient for biliary extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, both during the procedure and in follow-up evaluation.
The treating physician must have a thorough knowledge... | C06 |
3,219 | 7,993 | Melanosis of the esophagus. An endoscopic, histochemical, and ultrastructural study.
Endoscopic, histological, and ultrastructural features of 21 cases of esophageal melanosis are described.
These cases were detected during 1000 consecutive routine upper gastrointestinal endoscopies.
Staining characteristics and ult... | C06 |
3,220 | 6,982 | Management of perineal wounds following abdominoperineal resection with inferior gluteal flaps.
Our experience treating perineal wounds secondary to abdominoperineal resection, either for inflammatory bowel disease or cancer, is presented.
A total of 16 patients were treated either on a delayed basis or at the same t... | C06 |
3,221 | 5,922 | Visceral protothecosis mimicking sclerosing cholangitis in an immunocompetent host: successful antifungal therapy.
A healthy 39-year-old man who had clinical findings consistent with sclerosing cholangitis was found to have systemic protothecosis at surgery.
Severe granulomatous inflammation and palpable nodules were... | C06 |
3,222 | 8,279 | Prochlorperazine and transdermal scopolamine added to a metoclopramide antiemetic regimen. A controlled comparison.
Cisplatin-induced nausea and vomiting occurs both acutely and over a prolonged period of time.
These symptoms may be incapacitating and are frequently given as a reason to discontinue therapy.
We compa... | C06 |
3,223 | 4,945 | Transient renal acidification defect during acute infantile diarrhea: the role of urinary sodium.
We studied urinary acidification daily during the hospital course of 16 infants with acute gastroenteritis and metabolic acidosis.
Urine pH value on admission was higher than 5.5 in 14 (87%) patients.
We hypothesized th... | C06 |
3,224 | 447 | Gastric lesions secondary to long-distance running.
Gastrointestinal disorders have been reported during long-distance running.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of prolonged exercise on the upper digestive tract.
Seven subjects were submitted to a standard endoscopic examination of the upper dig... | C06 |
3,225 | 8,848 | Approaches to the patient with aspiration and swallowing disabilities.
Aspiration, or soiling of the tracheobronchial tree, can produce life-threatening pulmonary disease.
Intermittent or persistent aspiration may cause symptoms including cough, intermittent fever, recurrent tracheobronchitis, atelectasis, pneumonia,... | C06 |
3,226 | 961 | Imidazole salicylate versus piroxicam in the treatment of arthrosis in elderly patients. A double-blind clinical and endoscopic trial.
The clinical efficacy and gastroduodenal tolerability of imidazole salicylate (imidazole 2-hydroxybenzoate, ITF 182), a new synthetic drug with an anti-inflammatory action, was evaluat... | C06 |
3,227 | 7,114 | Ultrasonography in patients with suspected acute appendicitis: a prospective study.
The diagnostic accuracy of high-resolution real-time ultrasonography was prospectively studied in 240 patients admitted to the hospital with suspected acute appendicitis.
The criteria for ultrasound diagnosis of appendicitis included ... | C06 |
3,228 | 3,010 | Acalculus lymphoeosinophilic cholecystitis associated with interleukin-2 and lymphokine-activated killer cell therapy.
A case of unusual cholecystitis that developed on completion of interleukin-2 and lymphokine-activated killer cell therapy is described.
A 62-year-old man was treated with interleukin-2 and lymphokin... | C06 |
3,229 | 2,934 | Surgical aspects of sclerosing cholangitis. Results in 178 patients.
Of 178 patients with sclerosing cholangitis treated since 1950, 88 patients had associated inflammatory bowel disease, 72 had no such history, and 18 had iatrogenic injury or stone disease.
A total of 233 biliary operations were performed, with a 75... | C06 |
3,230 | 655 | Nonmucous glycoproteins as pronucleating agents.
Cholesterol crystallization-promoting factors probably play an important role in the pathogenesis of gallstone disease.
We have isolated one of the factors involved by using lectin-affinity chromatography.
A potent promoting activity binds to concanavalin A-Sepharose.... | C06 |
3,231 | 7,456 | Feasibility of digital teleradiology for imaging evaluation of patients with acute right upper quadrant abdominal pain.
To assess the utility of a commercially available digital teleradiology system in evaluating patients with acute pain in the right upper quadrant, hard-copy images from 100 examinations (50 hepatobil... | C06 |
3,232 | 9,252 | When is polypectomy sufficient treatment for colorectal cancer in a polyp?
Eighty-seven patients with a carcinoma in a polyp were reviewed over a 12-year period.
Ten histologic criteria were analyzed for an association with the presence of residual carcinoma.
Four factors were identified as having prognostic value: ... | C06 |
3,233 | 619 | Effect of ulcerative colitis and smoking on rectal blood flow.
Rectal blood flow was measured by laser doppler flowmetry over 60 minutes in eight patients with colitis in remission and eight healthy male non-smokers.
Ten smokers were also examined on two occasions, one of which included smoking a cigarette.
Plasma n... | C06 |
3,234 | 6,577 | Prevention of pancreatic fistula by modified pancreaticojejunal anastomosis.
A major cause of morbidity after pancreatoduodenectomy is leakage from the pancreaticojejunal anastomosis.
To prevent this complication, we have employed mucosal stripping from the proximal jejunum prior to end-to-end anastomosis in 19 patie... | C06 |
3,235 | 7,200 | Pearson's marrow-pancreas syndrome. A multisystem mitochondrial disorder in infancy.
Pearson's marrow-pancreas syndrome (McKusick No.
26056) is a fatal disorder of hitherto unknown etiology involving the hematopoietic system, exocrine pancreas, liver, and kidneys.
The observation of high lactate/pyruvate molar ratio... | C06 |
3,236 | 5,338 | Pancreaticopleural fistula. Report of 7 patients and review of the literature.
Pancreaticopleural fistula is an uncommon clinical condition.
Its presentation is often confusing because of the paucity of clues suggestive of pancreatic disease and the preponderance of pulmonary symptoms and signs.
Most patients are al... | C06 |
3,237 | 973 | Vascular and microvascular changes--key factors in the development of acetic acid-induced gastric ulcers in rats.
The present study examined the time sequence and histologic and ultrastructural features of the formation and evolution of experimental, acetic acid-induced gastric ulcerations in rats.
One hundred percen... | C06 |
3,238 | 590 | Endoscopic retrograde brush cytology. A new technique.
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography has been shown to be a very valuable adjunct in the diagnosis of malignancy involving the biliary and/or pancreatic ductal system.
However, characteristic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography radiographic f... | C06 |
3,239 | 6,759 | Risk for colon adenomas in patients with rectosigmoid hyperplastic polyps
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether hyperplastic polyps found in the rectosigmoid area of the colon are associated with proximal adenomas, and to judge whether patients with distal hyperplastic polyps found during sigmoidoscopy might benefit from f... | C06 |
3,240 | 4,045 | Hepatic vascular disease and portal hypertension in polycythemia vera and agnogenic myeloid metaplasia: a clinicopathological study of 145 patients examined at autopsy.
The pathogenesis of portal hypertension arising in patients with myeloproliferative disorders has been difficult to understand because liver biopsy fi... | C06 |
3,241 | 2,441 | Protein-losing enteropathy in systemic lupus erythematosus associated with intestinal lymphangiectasia.
This case report concerns a young woman with systemic lupus erythematosus who presented with a protein-losing enteropathy.
Intestinal biopsy revealed lymphangiectasia.
Mesenteric lymph nodes showed paracortical ly... | C06 |
3,242 | 9,230 | Surgical complications of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
Surgical experience with 260 consecutive patients with chronic renal failure receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) at one medical center from 1980 to 1989 is reviewed.
Patients received CAPD for a mean of 24.2 months (range: 3 d... | C06 |
3,243 | 6,048 | Intraoperative scintigraphy for active small intestinal bleeding.
Localizing active sites of bleeding within the small intestine remains a difficult task.
Endoscopic, angiographic or scintigraphic studies may point to the small intestine as the site of blood loss, but at operation, without a palpable lesion, the exac... | C06 |
3,244 | 3,337 | Malignant left-sided large bowel obstruction managed by subtotal/total colectomy.
Of 60 patients presenting with acute obstructing carcinoma of the left colon, 49 underwent immediate resection either by radical subtotal/total colectomy (31 patients, group I) or by radical segmental resection (18 patients, group II) of... | C06 |
3,245 | 8,154 | NSAID-induced gastrointestinal damage. A critical review of prophylaxis and therapy.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) cause acute diffuse injury to the gastroduodenal mucosa, and also cause chronic focal ulcers that may bleed or perforate without warning symptoms.
Acute and chronic lesions are distinct, ... | C06 |
3,246 | 4,004 | Primary biliary cirrhosis. Quantitation of autoantibodies to purified mitochondrial enzymes and correlation with disease progression.
Primary biliary cirrhosis is characterized by the presence of antimitochondrial antibodies.
Recently, six of the autoantigens have been identified as components of the 2-oxo acid dehyd... | C06 |
3,247 | 2,916 | Perforated duodenal ulcer: an unusual complication of gastroenteritis.
A 7 year old boy was admitted to hospital with gastroenteritis, which was complicated by an acute perforated duodenal ulcer.
After oversewing of the perforation he made an uncomplicated recovery.
Peptic ulceration is under-diagnosed in childhood ... | C06 |
3,248 | 6,837 | Parietal cell vagotomy and dilatation for peptic duodenal stricture.
Gastric outlet obstruction due to peptic duodenal stricture (pyloric stenosis) was treated with parietal cell vagotomy and dilatation of the stricture in 32 patients.
Follow-up is in the range of 5 years in 37.4% of the patients, while 6 to 10 years... | C06 |
3,249 | 585 | Piezoelectric lithotripsy: stone disintegration and follow-up results in patients with symptomatic gallbladder stones.
One hundred symptomatic patients with radiolucent gallbladder stones were treated with a new piezoelectric lithotripter and oral chemolitholytic agents.
Stone disintegration was achieved in 99 of the... | C06 |
3,250 | 454 | Investigation of mode of action of biofeedback in treatment of fecal incontinence.
A study was carried out in 25 incontinent patients to evaluate some of the factors thought to be responsible for the success of retraining for fecal incontinence.
Subjects were initially allocated to one of two groups; one group was tr... | C06 |
3,251 | 6,329 | Effect of omeprazole and high doses of ranitidine on gastric acidity and gastroesophageal reflux in patients with moderate-severe esophagitis
Thirty to fifty percent of patients with reflux esophagitis fail to heal after treatment with conventional doses of H2-receptor antagonists, whereas omeprazole administration i... | C06 |
3,252 | 4,986 | Effect of endotoxin and a burn injury on lung and liver lipid peroxidation and catalase activity.
Both endotoxin and a burn alone produce oxidant-induced tissue lipid peroxidation.
The endotoxin response is due in large part to hydrogen peroxide.
The combination of endotoxin after a burn results in an increased live... | C06 |
3,253 | 6,835 | Results of a multicenter trial comparing imipenem/cilastatin to tobramycin/clindamycin for intra-abdominal infections.
We designed a multicenter study to compare tobramycin/clindamycin to imipenem/cilastatin for intra-abdominal infections.
We included the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) ind... | C06 |
3,254 | 9,753 | Metabolic studies of radioiodinated serum amyloid P component in normal subjects and patients with systemic amyloidosis.
125I-Serum amyloid P component (SAP), injected intravenously into 10 normal subjects, remained predominantly intravascular with mean (SD) T1/2 (half time) in plasma of 24.5 (5.9) h.
The fractional ... | C06 |
3,255 | 446 | Sterol-dependence of gastric protective activity of unsaturated phospholipids.
The major aim of this study was to investigate the gastric protective effect of unsaturated phospholipids and to determine the ability of neutral lipids to enhance this activity.
We found that although a liposomal suspension of unsaturated... | C06 |
3,256 | 2,436 | Serum amylase in patients with renal insufficiency and renal failure.
Results vary with regard to the upper limits of serum amylase seen in patients with renal failure, and very little has been reported with patients with renal insufficiency not yet requiring dialysis.
To determine the level of serum amylase elevatio... | C06 |
3,257 | 3,992 | Role of visceral afferent mechanisms in functional bowel disorders.
This report analyzes the clinical and physiological evidence supporting a role for altered visceral afferent mechanisms in the pathogenesis of two functional bowel syndromes: noncardiac chest pain and the irritable bowel syndrome.
Considerable recent... | C06 |
3,258 | 6,330 | Esophageal 24-h pH monitoring: is prior manometry necessary for correct positioning of the electrode?
In 24-h esophageal pH monitoring, the electrode is usually positioned 5 cm above the manometrically localized esophagogastric junction.
In order to replace esophageal manometry for this purpose, we tested whether the... | C06 |
3,259 | 5,930 | Emphysematous gastritis: case report and review.
Emphysematous gastritis is a condition involving gastric wall inflammation, radiologic or intraoperative evidence of intramural gas, and systemic toxicity.
A recent case of emphysematous gastritis in a 57-year-old diabetic man is reported, and 27 cases published since ... | C06 |
3,260 | 653 | Bile sampling, processing and analysis in clinical studies.
Obtaining a proper bile sample for investigative purposes is of utmost importance to obtain valid results.
Bile can be collected by direct aspiration of the gallbladder, by duodenal intubation or by T-tube drainage.
The optimal method of collection depends ... | C06 |
3,261 | 7,689 | Percutaneous catheter drainage of infected pancreatic and peripancreatic fluid collections.
Operative drainage is the cornerstone of therapy for pancreatic abscess.
Recently it has been suggested that successful percutaneous catheter drainage of infected pancreatic and peripancreatic fluid collections may serve as de... | C06 |
3,262 | 6,733 | Colobronchial fistula: a rare complication of Crohn's colitis.
A 29-yr-old white woman presented with chronic pneumonia in the left lower lobe and with left pleural effusion.
She was known to have inflammatory bowel disease, but she was asymptomatic under maintenance treatment with 5-ASA.
She received numerous antib... | C06 |
3,263 | 6,335 | Adenocarcinoma arising in Barrett's esophagus after total gastrectomy
A 64-yr-old Japanese male who underwent a partial gastrectomy for a duodenal ulcer at the age of 21, a total resection of the remnant stomach for a stomal ulcer at age 25, and in whom Barrett's esophagus was diagnosed at age 47, was found to have a... | C06 |
3,264 | 636 | Reduction of gastric ulcer recurrence after suppression of Helicobacter pylori by cefixime.
The effect on the recurrence of gastric ulcers after suppression of Helicobacter pylori by combined treatment with cimetidine and the antimicrobial drug cefixime was investigated.
Twenty one of 43 patients with endoscopically ... | C06 |
3,265 | 3,780 | Perirectal abscess in Crohn's disease. Drainage and outcome.
The role of surgical intervention in the treatment of patients with anorectal Crohn's disease is controversial.
To clarify the success of aggressive drainage and the subsequent clinical course of patients with Crohn's disease and perirectal abscesses, the a... | C06 |
3,266 | 9,239 | Choledochotomy for calculous disease in the elderly.
To determine the risk of operations on the biliary tract in the elderly, we retrospectively examined 56 patients 80 years of age or older undergoing choledochotomy for calculous disease and compared their outcomes with those of a contemporary group of 257 patients u... | C06 |
3,267 | 8,014 | Persistent hepatitis B virus following interferon alfa therapy and liver transplantation.
A 44-year-old man with chronic hepatitis B virus infection and cirrhosis was treated with recombinant human interferon alfa for 67 days immediately before orthotopic liver transplantation and immunoprophylaxis with hyperimmune gl... | C06 |
3,268 | 8,656 | Perianal appearances associated with constipation.
The perianal appearances were studied prospectively of 136 constipated children (mean age 3.9 years, 67 boys, 69 girls).
Anal dilatation, fissures, tags, warts, perianal oedema, redness, blueness, and veins were recorded.
It was noted whether dilatation occurred imm... | C06 |
3,269 | 629 | Referral of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis for liver transplantation.
All patients with primary biliary cirrhosis referred to this unit for consideration for transplantation between April 1981 and January 1989 were analysed retrospectively to assess whether disease stage at referral affects the outcome after ... | C06 |
3,270 | 4,669 | Rotavirus-specific antibody response in saliva of infants with rotavirus diarrhea.
The reliability of saliva as an indicator of rotavirus infection was assessed among 15 infants (3-12 months) with rotaviral and 15 with nonrotaviral diarrhea.
Paired salivary samples collected during acute and convalescent phases were ... | C06 |
3,271 | 6,025 | Adenocarcinoma of the colon occurring with intussusception in an adolescent.
Hydrostatic reduction of intussusception is definitive therapy in most infants with this abnormality.
In the older child, adolescent, and adult, a polyp or tumor is often present.
Operative intervention should be considered earlier in the c... | C06 |
3,272 | 6,063 | High or low hepaticojejunostomy for bile duct strictures?
The 19 patients who underwent 22 postoperative repairs of bile duct stricture in our institution between 1973 and 1984 were evaluated to assess whether the recognition of the tenuous blood supply of the supraduodenal bile duct in 1979 had improved the results t... | C06 |
3,273 | 8,162 | The gastrin hypothesis. Implications for antisecretory drug selection.
Newer potent and long-acting inhibitors of acid secretion, such as the proton pump inhibitor omeprazole, are becoming available for general use.
These drugs promise to control acid-peptic disease effectively in patients who do not respond adequate... | C06 |
3,274 | 3,335 | Urinary tissue factor activity in colorectal disease.
Procoagulant activity (PCA) in normal urine has been recognized for over 50 years.
Although tissue factor (TF) is produced by certain tumours, and is increased in both tumour-associated macrophages and blood monocytes, the possibility that it might also be increas... | C06 |
3,275 | 6,551 | Human T cell lymphotropic virus infection in Guaymi Indians from Panama.
Preliminary studies found that 9% of Guaymi Indians from Bocas del Toro province have antibody to human T cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV-I/II).
The present study enrolled 317 (21% of the population) Guaymi Indians from Changuinola, the capital of... | C06 |
3,276 | 4,627 | Fucosylated oligosaccharides of human milk protect suckling mice from heat-stabile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli.
Human milk protects suckling mice from the diarrheagenic effects of heat-stabile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli (ST).
To identify the human milk fraction responsible for this protection, pooled skimmed... | C06 |
3,277 | 8,454 | Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for biliary stones.
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy is a noninvasive technique for treatment of patients with gallbladder and bile duct stones.
Selected patients with gallbladder stones can be treated on an outpatient basis without general anesthesia and may return to full ... | C06 |
3,278 | 578 | Alpha 1-antitrypsin excretion in stool in normal subjects and in patients with gastrointestinal disorders.
Fecal clearance of plasma alpha 1-antitrypsin is used as a measure of protein leakage into the intestinal tract.
In this study, the alpha 1-antitrypsin concentration in stool and the plasma clearance of alpha 1-... | C06 |
3,279 | 3,304 | Postoperative analgesic requirements in patients exposed to positive intraoperative suggestions.
OBJECTIVE--To establish whether positive suggestions given to a patient under general anaesthesia reduce postoperative pain and analgesic requirements.
DESIGN--Prospective double blind randomised study.
SETTING--Operatin... | C06 |
3,280 | 4,037 | Immunological studies before and during interferon therapy in chronic HBV infection: identification of factors predicting response.
Lymphoblastoid interferon is effective therapy in some but not all patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
To assess whether immunological parameters were predictive of respon... | C06 |
3,281 | 9,693 | Primary peritoneal sarcoidosis.
A 14-year-old male was admitted for the evaluation of tense exudative ascites.
Despite thorough evaluation, the diagnosis remained cryptic until peritoneoscopy revealed diffuse studding of the entire visualized peritoneum with multiple miliary nodules, and peritoneal biopsy demonstrate... | C06 |
3,282 | 632 | Loss of duodenal folds allows diagnosis of unsuspected coeliac disease.
We report three patients with coeliac disease who presented without the classic features of malabsorption and who underwent biopsy and were diagnosed only because of the endoscopic finding of the disappearance of Kerckring's folds in the descendin... | C06 |
3,283 | 3,803 | Effect of race upon organ donation and recipient survival in liver transplantation.
The effect of the race of the donor on organ donation and on the outcome of clinical liver transplantation has not been addressed previously.
The aims of this study were to determine: (1) the number of organs donated by each of the ma... | C06 |
3,284 | 2,434 | Percutaneous transhepatic cholecystostomy for acute complicated cholecystitis in elderly patients.
We report our experience with percutaneous transhepatic cholecystostomy in 10 elderly patients with acute cholecystitis, complicated by empyema formation.
Most of these patients has severe underlying disease, rendering ... | C06 |
3,285 | 2,808 | Nonoperative management of small-bowel obstruction with endoscopic long intestinal tube placement.
Intestinal obstruction remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in surgical patients.
We reviewed the records of 77 patients with mechanical small-bowel obstruction who were treated with endoscopically and fluor... | C06 |
3,286 | 6,064 | Biliobiliary fistula: preoperative diagnosis and management implications.
Experience with cholecystohepaticodochal and cholecystocholedochal fistulas as a result of an erosion of gallstones from the gallbladder into the adjacent common duct in five patients is presented.
The incidence was 1.4% in a population of 350 ... | C06 |
3,287 | 5,904 | Intracorporeal biliary lithotripsy.
Most bile duct calculi can be removed with standard percutaneous or endoscopic techniques.
Very large stones are the most common cause for failure.
Intracorporeal lithotripsy, and EHL in particular, can be used safely in either the biliary tree or gallbladder to fragment these lar... | C06 |
3,288 | 2,619 | Update on the epidemiology of anorexia nervosa in a defined region of Switzerland.
In this follow-up investigation, the authors studied all Swiss women in the canton of Zurich who developed anorexia nervosa between ages 12 and 25 years and who were hospitalized for the first time with this diagnosis between 1983 and 1... | C06 |
3,289 | 4,207 | Left retroperitoneal exposure for distal mesenteric artery repair.
Distal disease in the mesenteric arteries has usually been repaired transabdominally since it is believed that only the proximal centimeter of each vessel is accessible through the retroperitoneum.
We treated five patients with chronic visceral ischem... | C06 |
3,290 | 568 | Evolution of fundic argyrophil cell hyperplasia in nonantral atrophic gastritis.
Fundic argyrophil cells were studied for a mean period of 68.7 months (range, 11-170) in 18 patients with fundic atrophic gastritis and achlorhydria.
Initially, 12 patients had hyperplasia of the argyrophil cells, the severity of which w... | C06 |
3,291 | 2,744 | A hepatocellular carcinoma of massive arterioportal shunts without tumor stain treated with CDDP two-route chemotherapy--a case report.
Massive arterioportal shunts without tumor vessels or tumor stain are sometimes encountered in advanced cases of liver cirrhosis.
Massive arterioportal shunts without tumor stain tha... | C06 |
3,292 | 6,080 | High ethanol consumption as risk factor for intracerebral hemorrhage in young and middle-aged people.
We examined the prevalence of high ethanol intake, hypertension, and other risk factors for intracerebral hemorrhage in a case-control study of 24 young and middle-aged patients with intracerebral hemorrhage.
We reco... | C06 |
3,293 | 9,638 | Prediction of outcome in acute pancreatitis: a comparative study of APACHE II, clinical assessment and multiple factor scoring systems.
The APACHE II severity of disease classification system has been examined prospectively in 160 patients with acute pancreatitis.
Using clinical and simple laboratory data APACHE II w... | C06 |
3,294 | 4,519 | Can the blood urea nitrogen/creatinine ratio distinguish upper from lower gastrointestinal bleeding?
We wanted to know if the blood urea nitrogen to creatinine (BUN/Cr) ratio could help distinguish upper from lower gastrointestinal bleeding.
We analyzed retrospectively patients admitted to our hospital for gastrointe... | C06 |
3,295 | 3,795 | Modulatory action of adenosine on gastric function and ethanol-induced mucosal damage in rats.
This study examines the gastric effects of adenosine and its antagonist, theophylline, on secretory function, mucosal blood flow, and on ethanol-induced glandular mucosal damage in rats that were fasted for 24 hr before expe... | C06 |
3,296 | 4,528 | Tuberculous peritonitis: a study comparing cirrhotic and noncirrhotic patients.
Tuberculous peritonitis is a rare disease, which often goes unrecognized because of the subtle clinical clues and its insidous onset.
We retrospectively analyzed the records of 37 cases of tuberculous peritonitis diagnosed over a 15-year ... | C06 |
3,297 | 6,523 | Association of hepatitis B surface antigen and core antibody with acquisition and manifestations of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection.
We examined the associations between seropositivity for hepatitis B virus (HBV) with the presence or development of antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-... | C06 |
3,298 | 4,523 | Frequency of recovery of Blastocystis hominis in clinical practice.
We examined the frequency of isolation of Blastocystis hominis from stools of patients seen in an indigent-care teaching hospital.
Over a 2-year period, 2,744 stool specimens were examined prospectively.
B.
hominis was found in 262 stools (9.5% of ... | C06 |
3,299 | 441 | Scintigraphic measurement of oropharyngeal transit in man.
Scintigraphic studies of the oropharyngeal transit of a liquid bolus were performed in 15 healthy controls, 12 patients with symptoms of oral-pharyngeal dysphagia, and 13 patients with neuromuscular disease, who did not have dysphagia.
Gamma camera imaging of... | C06 |
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