Summary. Objective. To analyze the experience of treatment patients with diverticular disease colon, complicated by bleeding.
 Materials and methods. Analyzed 221 patients, hospitalized in Military Medical Clinical Center Southern region Odessa, who underwent 263 surgeries for colon its complications. Intestinal bleeding as a cause hospitalization was noted 17 (7.6 %) patients.
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Removal of the adrenal medulla in cats was performed in two stages under sodium pentobarbital anesthesia. One mg eserine per kg of body weight was in jected subcutaneously before and after medullo-adrenalectomy. Urine of 24-hour period was collected before and after injection of eserine and fluorimetrically analyzed for adrenaline and noradrenaline. The urinary excretion of adrenaline was incre...

An 11-year old girl, who had undergone left oophorec­ tomy 2 years previously, was admitted to hospital with abdominal pain and fever of 2 days' duration. She had attained menarche 3 months previously. An abdominal mass with ascites detected on examination corresponded to a massive haemorrhagic right ovarian mass at surgery. Abdominal hysterectomy, right salpingo-oophorectomy and omentectomy we...

Carcinoma of the pancreas is increasing in the United States and has a grave prognosis. Surgical treatment has moved from subtotal pancreatectomy to total pancreatec tomy and now to en bloc resection and vascular replace ment. Pancreatic exocrine and endocrine insufficiency fol lowing resection add to the nutritional problems presented by this major surgery and its high complication rate. Recog...

Despite being documented in medical history from over 2400 years ago, primary congenital glaucoma (PCG), being a disease with low incidence rate, remains a challenge to ophthalmologists. The article provides a broad overview on the pathophysiology and diagnostic approach to PCG with major emphasis on the treatment options of PCG. While reviewing on the well-established treatment options, namely...

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame retardant chemicals that are now considered a new class of persistent organic pollutants. Over the past thirty years, the levels of PBDEs have been increasing rapidly in a variety of environmental compartments and in human tissues (Hites 2004). Presently, two of the three commercial mixtures of PBDEs (pentaBDE and octaBDE) are either banned from ...

What is PD? Pancreatico-duodenectomy is a surgical term applied to the procedure of removal of various extents of pancreas and duodenum. Although the term itself is incomplete as to the extent of removal of organs as it also encompasses removal of common hepatic, common bile duct and gall bladder as well as shown in (Figure 1). Chiefly this procedure is performed in cases of pancreatic head can...

Presenter: Norberto Portillo Lopez MD | Universidad de la Frontera Background: Hydatidic disease corresponds to the parasitic infection caused by Echinococcus granulosus. At a global level it lacks epidemiological importance. However, in endemic sites, such as Chile, prevalence is 5 per 100,000 inhabitants, and Araucanía Region 48 inhabitants constituting public health problem. Surgery remains ...

1. Three forms of iatrogenic serum enzyme al terat ion are presented, each entailing a different mechanism of action. 2. Recent modifications in creatinine phosphokinase (CPK) assay systems have great ly increased the sensit ivity of this measurement . This increase in sensit ivity has been accompanied by a relative decrease in clinical specificity. In pat ients receiving intramuscular injectio...

Determination of fungi associated with malformed tissues of mango was done on different local and exotic cultivars during the year 2000-2001. Five mango growing districts of the Punjab were selected for the study with three locations in each district. A total of 75 malformed samples and 750 tissues (10 tissues / sample) of 5 standard local cultivars and 1500 tissues of exotic cultivars were ass...