Chronic alcohol abuse increases the incidence and mortality of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in septic patients. To examine a potential mechanism, we hypothesized that ethanol ingestion predisposes to sepsis-mediated acute lung injury by decreasing alveolar type II cell glutathione homeostasis and function. Lungs isolated from rats fed ethanol (20% in water for $ 3 wk), compare...

background: toxic alcohol poisonings are responsible for high mortality and morbidity in russia. this study was aimed to evaluate the trends of harmful ethanol (etoh) drinking as well as methanol (meoh), isopropanol (ipa) and ethylene glycol (eg) poisonings in the middle urals region of russia. methods: in this retrospective study, the medical records of patients poisoned with meoh, ipa and eg ...

As many prior case reports have shown, unregulated supplements and alcohol are both known to cause varying degrees of hepatotoxicity. We present a 47-year-old male who presented the hospital with headache abdominal pain after consuming Reishi Mushroom (Ganoderma lingzhi) powder alcohol. The patient was found acute hepatitis significant transaminitis, which managed conservatively N-acetylcystein...

OWING to the association between alcohol and chronic pancreatitis in man' there has,been considerable interest in the effect of alcohol upon gastro-entero pancreatic (GEP) hormones. Previous estimations of GEP hormones following oral alcohol ingestion have shown raised serum gastrin concentrations in response to 18 per cent and 15 per cent ethanol in man (Becker, Reeder and Thompson2), and Stra...

This study has examined changes in gastrointestinal hormones induced by alcohol. Ten normal volunteers consumed an orange and carbohydrate-containing drink on two separate occasions, with and without 50g alcohol. There was a significant hyperglycaemia associated with alcohol ingestion but no difference was noted in insulin or gastric inhibitory polypeptide in the two groups. Gastrin release was...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of periodic and moderate alcohol intake on gallbladder motility. METHODS The ultrasonographic ellipsoid method was used in 21 healthy male subjects: 12 non-alcohol and 9 alcohol drinkers. The stimulus for gallbladder contraction was 165 ml of half cream milk. Gallbladder dynamics were studied for 20 minutes following the ingestion of the milk. The mean percenta...