Exogenous cholesterol, absorbed from the intestinal tract, is transported into the blood by the lymph of the thoracic duct. By means of thoracic duct cannulation and subsequent lymph collection following stomach feeding of 100 mg. of cholesterol dissolved in olive oil, it was found that the nephrotic rat has a diminished rate of cholesterol absorption. This could not be ascribed to a deficiency...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to assess the safety, efficacy, medium-term outcome, and complications of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) stenting in duct-dependent pulmonary circulation. BACKGROUND Patent ductus arteriosus stenting has been proposed as an alternative to surgical shunt on account of postoperative morbidity and complications of surgical shunting. METHODS Between April 2000...

Studies have been made in the rat of the elimination of 210Pb in the bile after the intravenous injection of ioo ,ug. of lead. Four groups of rats were used: in two the bile was drained by cannulation of the bile duct, and in the other two the bile flow to the duodenum was interrupted by ligation or division of the bile duct. The radioactivity of the bile, of the intestinal walls, and of the in...

UNLABELLED The nasopalatine region is composed of structures such as the vomeronasal organ and nasopalatine duct. The nasopalatine duct may provide the communication of the mouth to the nasal cavity in human fetuses and can be obliterated in an adult human. Knowledge on the development of the nasopalatine region and nasopalatine duct in humans is necessary for understanding the morphology and e...

OBJECTIVE We studied usefulness of serum B-type natriuretic peptide level as a screening tool for detecting hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus in the preterm neonates. METHODS Sixty admitted preterm neonates with gestational age ≤34 weeks, birth weight ≤2500 gr, and age of >3 days have been enrolled in this study. We measured serum B-type natriuretic peptide levels at the be...

OBJECTIVE To document the development of aortic regurgitation following occlusion of a patent arterial duct. DESIGN Case series involving nine children referred for surgical ligation of an isolated patent arterial duct. SETTING Academic referral centre. METHODS A preoperative transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiogram was performed in theatre to look for aortic regurgitation. There...

Introduction: It’s a rare report about intestinal obstruction caused by barium retention after small bowel radiography of oral barium. An 83-year-old woman was admitted for bile duct cancer with metal stent and incomplete intestinal obstruction .The patient ever did upper gastrointestinal barium meal examination which showed the mucosa of descending part of duodenum was unclear and contrast med...

BACKGROUND Vitellointestinal duct (VID) or omphalomesenteric duct anomalies are secondary to the persistence of the embryonic vitelline duct, which normally obliterates by weeks 5-9 of intrauterine life. METHODS This is a retrospective analysis of a total of 16 patients of symptomatic remnants of vitellointestinal duct from period of Jan 2009 to May 2013. RESULTS Male to female ratio (M:F) ...

. PURPOSE Dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) is the standard surgical treatment for adult nasolacrimal duct obstruction. There have been relatively few studies of closed nasolacrimal duct intubation in adults. The aim of this study was to determine rates of anatomic patency following this procedure. METHODS The authors carried out a survey of all patients undergoing closed nasolacrimal duct intuba...

BACKGROUND Transcatheter occlusion of the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a minimally invasive treatment. The appropriate device size is chosen based on the angiographic measurement of the PDA. The current study aimed to assess the relationship between the transthoracic echocardiographic (TTE) measurements of the PDA prior to the occlusion procedure and the actual size of the deployed device....