Abstract Background Chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is a core component of curative treatment for esophageal cancer locally advanced cancer. Salvage esophagectomy undertaken in patients who experience recurrent or residual post-CRT. This study aims determine the impact delayed surgical intervention following chemoradiotherapy on survival from oesophageal Methods was an international, multi-center, retr...

Abstract Background Oesophagectomy and gastrectomy result in profound life-long changes eating behaviour appetite, significant post-prandial symptoms. Despite decades of research, recent advantages the understanding gut physiology, medical approaches to post-resectional patient care remain limited. The mainstay treatment is education. Using clinical lab-based studies, we investigated effects al...

This paper describes a study concerning the interaction of oxygen with clean Ge(O01)2 x 1 surfaces in ultrahigh vacuum at 300 K. Surface conductance measurements, differential ellipsometry in the photon energy range of 1.5-4 eV and Auger electron spectroscopy have been used to monitor this solid-gas reaction. We observed in the joint density of states. as derived from ellipsometry. a peak at ab...

Functional A and B alleles are distinguished at two critical sites in exon 7 of the human ABO blood group gene. The most frequent nonfunctional O alleles have one-base deletion in exon 6 producing a frameshift, and it has the A type signature in two critical sites in exon 7. Previous studies indicated that B and O alleles were derived from A allele in human lineage. In this study, we conducted ...

Twenty Karakul rams were allotted to four groups, subjected first to starvation and then allowed restricted amounts (approximately 1/3 of ad l ib i tum intake) of a high fiber, low energy diet containing no additive (control), 5% 1,3-butanediol (BD), 10% BD, and 5% 1,2-propanediol (PD) for 6 weeks. Starvation elevated (P<.O01) serum ketones (3-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate) and decreased (P<...

Abstract Background Whilst the use of laparoscopy in repair large hiatus hernia (LHH) has become mainstream, prevention post operative recurrence and other adverse events remained a challenge. Mesh reinforcement suture cruroplasty been considered as potential solution. However paucity well constructed powered randomised control trials (RCT) with long term followup makes an assessment its real i...