Abstract Introduction With the rising incidence of both obesity and urolithiasis, need to perform stone surgery in high BMI patients is increasing. We analysed safety efficacy one-shot tract dilatation (OSD) technique obese undergoing supine percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). Method Retrospective review all PCNLs performed by a single surgeon between January 2014 December 2020. Patient factor...

tomy with a forward-viewing echoendoscope for severe benign bilioenteric stricture in a patient with Child’s resection Anastomotic strictures occurring after choledochojejunostomy have generally been treated by a percutaneous approach. A recent study reported that good outcomes were obtained after balloon enteroscope-assisted endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography [1]. A number of proce...

BACKGROUND Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and vessel dilator eliminate 80% and 33% of human pancreatic adenocarcinomas growing in athymic mice when given subcutaneously for 28 days via osmotic pumps. MATERIALS AND METHODS To determine if similar beneficial effects can be obtained by ANP and vessel dilator on a bi-weekly basis, bolus infusion via vascular ports bi-weekly for 4 weeks was give...

BACKGROUND Vessel dilator and kaliuretic peptide have anticancer effects in human prostate adenocarcinomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS The effects of vessel dilator, kaliuretic peptide and cyclic GMP on Ras were examined in human prostate adenocarcinoma cells. RESULTS Vessel dilator and kaliuretic peptide decreased the activation of Ras -GTP over a concentration range of 0.01 microM to 1 microM....