Serum Enzyme Levels During Intestinal Ischemia

Serum omentin levels predicts mesenteric ischemia.

BACKGROUND Acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) is an intestinal vascular disease with high mortality. Clinical diagnosis of acute mesenteric ischemia is difficult. Adipose tissue is an important mediator of metabolism and inflammation.Omentin is produced by visceral adipose tissue and decreased serum levels of omentin are associated with poor metabolic outcomes. We aimed to investigate whether seru...

Analysis of serum enzyme levels in a rabbit model of acute mesenteric ischemia.

Early diagnosis of acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) remains very difficult, partly due to the fact that useful markers of early small bowel ischemia have not yet been identified. Thus, in this study, we aimed to evaluate the levels of serum intracellular enzymes in the tissues and organs in a controlled animal model of mesenteric intestinal ischemia. Forty-eight New Zealand rabbits were divided ...

Intestinal tachyarrhythmias during small bowel ischemia.

The electrical control activity (ECA) of the bowel is the omnipresent slow electrical wave of the intestinal tract. Characterization of small bowel electrical activity during ischemia may be used as a measure of intestinal viability. With the use of an animal model of mesenteric ischemia, serosal electrodes and a digital recording apparatus utilizing autoregressive spectral analysis were used t...

Serum angiotensin converting enzyme levels in AIDS.

Temporal relationship of serum markers and tissue damage during acute intestinal ischemia/reperfusion

OBJECTIVE It is essential to identify a serological marker of injury in order to study the pathophysiology of intestinal ischemia reperfusion. In this work, we studied the evolution of several serological markers after intestinal ischemia reperfusion injury in rats. The markers of non-specific cell damage were aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransaminase, and lactic dehydrogenase, the ...