OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of gas flow during insufflation on peritoneal fluid and peritoneal tissue regarding transient thermal behavior and thin-film evaporation. The effects of laparoscopic gas on peritoneal cell desiccation and peritoneal fluid thin-film evaporation were analyzed. METHODS Measurment of tissue and peritoneal fluid and analysis of gas flow dynamics during laparoscopy. ...

PURPOSE Free tumor cells in peritoneal fluid in patients with pancreatic cancer may have prognostic significance but there are few reports on methods for the effective detection of free tumor cells. The aims of this study were to identify free cancer cells in peritoneal fluid with fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) technique and to investigate its prognostic significance. METHODS Twenty...

SUMMARY Infertility has a special importance in gynecology in causing social, psychological and somatic prohlems. Endometriosis is a benign but progressive disorder in reproductive life and is more common in infertile women. CA 125 is a cell membrane glycoprotein. The endometrium is one the known source of this antigen and seems to be elevated in the pelvic endometriosis. In this study, from...

thirty clinical cases of obstructive urolithiasis, 15 with intact urinary bladder and 15 with ruptured urinary bladder, were used to study the changes in peritoneal fluid cytology. the percentage of neutrophils was highly increased than the normal reference range reported for cattle with slight decrease in lymphocyte percentage. the value for neutrophil percent was almost similar in both intact...

To investigate the effects of peritoneal fluid from patients with endometriosis on mouse peritoneal macrophages (Mphi), peritoneal fluid from endometriosis patients (n = 15) were added to a monolayer of C3H/HeJ mouse peritoneal Mphi. Tumor necrosis factor-producing activity was measured by the L929 assay activated with FK-23 (a preparation of heat-killed Enterococcus faecalis). Tumor necrosis f...

BACKGROUND Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a treatment modality for patients with renal failure. Both the uraemic state of these patients and chronic exposure to PD fluid are associated with the development of functional and structural alterations of the peritoneal membrane. In a well-established chronic PD rat model, we compared rats with normal renal function with subtotal nephrectomized rats tha...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether peritoneal fluid from women with endometriosis contributes to infertility by impairing sperm motion and functional characteristics. METHODS Women with endometriosis (n = 20) underwent laparoscopy for infertility or pelvic pain. Patients undergoing tubal ligation served as controls (n = 14). Peritoneal fluid was aspirated from women with endometriosis, or from wo...

background in contemporary practice, acute mesenteric ischemia (ami) remains a serious cause of morbidity and mortality in abdominal emergencies. objectives we report the measurement of peritoneal fluid potassium and ph on a small series of rats that developed extensive ami following the surgical ligation of superior mesenteric vessels and compare the results with control groups. materials and ...