our institution: repeated single-port transgastric debridement of walled-off pancreatic necrotic tissue using TriPort Access System (Olympus,Warsaw, Poland). After routine endotracheal intubation, gastric insufflation with a gastroscope is carried out to obtain approximation of the anterior gastric and abdominal walls. Percutaneous gastropexy is then carried out to stabilize the port insertion ...

A questionnaire consisting of 10 overdose scenarios was sent to 190 career accident and emergency staff in the United Kingdom, asking in each case how the respondents would treat a patient to prevent drug absorption. The responses showed lack of consensus in treatment methods. There was extensive use of both ipecacuanha induced emesis and gastric lavage despite a lack of experimental evidence t...

Peritoneal carcinomatosis from gastric cancer is considered a fatal disease with limited treatment options. Recent advances in the understanding of the disease process, systemic chemotherapy, and application of cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic chemoperfusion have shown promising results in the management of this difficult disease. Novel therapies such as extensive intraperitoneal lavage a...

A 88-year-old male patient presented with fever, singultus and retrosternal pain. After 8 days of antibiotic therapy not resulting in clinical improvement, he suddenly developed a pneumopericardium. Contrast swallow and endoscopy showed intrapericardial perforation of a benign gastric ulcer. Excision of the ulcer and suturing of both the stomach and the diaphragm as well as lavage of the perica...

Abstract Obesity is a major public health issue with various comorbidities. Sleeve gastrectomy has become popular treatment for obesity, but it carries the risk of complications, particularly staple line leakage. This case study focused on 32-year-old woman grade II obesity and hiatal hernia who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Four days after surgery, she presented abdominal pain, re...

bronchoalveolar lavage fluid proteins in sarcoidosis: a proteomics approach. Eur Respir J 2003; 21: 414–420. 8 Chang WC, Hsu PI, Chen YY, et al. Observation of peptide differences between cancer and control in gastric juice. Proteomics Clin Appl 2008; 2: 55–62. 9 Petricoin EF, Belluco C, Araujo RP, et al. The blood peptidome: a higher dimension of information content for cancer biomarker discov...

McDonagh, B. J., and Martin, J. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 425. Paraquat poisoning in children. Four children with paraquat poisoning are described, with 2 fatalities. In one fatal case delay in treatment occurred as the nature of the ingested fluid was uncertain. A method for rapid detection of paraquat in the urine is referred to. The treatment of paraquat poisoning consist...

BACKGROUND Late-onset and solitary recurrence of gastric signet ring cell (SRC) carcinoma is rare. We report a successful surgical resection of late solitary locoregional recurrence after curative gastrectomy for gastric SRC carcinoma. CASE REPORT The patient underwent total gastrectomy for advanced gastric carcinoma at age 52. Seven years after the primary operation, he visited us again with...