The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of different preoperative biliary drainage (PBD) methods on complications in jaundiced patients following pancreaticoduodenectomy. We retrospectively analyzed 270 extrahepatic bile duct cancer patients who underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy. A total of 170 patients without PBD treatment were defined as the non-PBD group. According to dif...

BACKGROUND Neonatal jaundice is the result of an imbalance between the production and conjugation of bilirubin. Considering the multiple roles of vitamin D, lower levels of vitamin D in these cases may be associated with neonatal jaundice. The present study was undertaken for the purpose of comparing serum vitamin D levels in healthy term jaundiced and nonjaundiced newborns and their mothers. ...

BACKGROUND The selective proliferation of transplanted hepatocytes with a growth stimulus, such as partial hepatectomy or hepatocyte growth factor, concomitant with hepatic irradiation (HIR), which can suppress proliferation of host hepatocytes, has been reported. We have conducted experiments that focused on less invasive and clinically applicable techniques and progenitor cells. MATERIALS A...

1. We have studied kidney structure and func­ tion in female Sprague-Dawley rats with chronic obstructive jaundice after bile-duct ligation and section and in age-matched sham-operated control animals. 2. High bile-duct ligation and section resulted in immediate hyperbilirubinaemia and progressive hepatomegaly with histological evidence of bileduct proliferation and periportal inflammation and ...

Mean urinary excretion values of some phenolic acids and alcohols have been measured by gas chromatography in 44 neonates (36 males, 6 females) during the first 2 days and days 3-7 of life, and the effect of prematurity and jaundice assessed. 4-Hydroxy-3-methoxymandelic acid (VMA) output rises immediately after birth in term but not in preterm infants. A similar increase in homovanillic acid (H...

S., a Mu sal man female of respectable family, was operated on for liver abscess bj7 me during the first week of September 1905. She recovered gradually, the wound being healed by the middle of December. She was again brought to the hospital on ,28th April 1908. She stated that, about a month previously, she got high fever with rigors, and pain in the right hypochondrium. The fever continued, t...