Emergencies and Complications in Gastroenterology - part 4 pdf

... stimula- tion of hepatic synthesis of the acute phase protein me- diated by interleukin-6 (IL-6). The release of inflammato- ry mediators such as IL-6 and PMN-elastase occurs more rapidly [ 14 17]. ... in detecting pancreatic necrosis. Results of a prospective clinical study. Int J Pancreatol 1986;1:227–235. 14 Viedma JA, Perez-Mateo M, Dominguez-Mu- noz JE, Carballo F: Role of interleu...

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... Gastroenterology Bleeding Registry: Preliminary findings. Am J Gastroenterol 1997;92:9 24 928. 8 Zuckerman GR, Prakash C: Acute lower intes- tinal bleeding. I. Clinical presentation and diagnosis. Gastrointest ... in previous trials comparing open surgery and ES, additional procedures were performed in 20–26% of the patients after ES [4 7]. In a recent trial from The Neth- erlands...

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... to intravenous corticosteroids and immu- nosuppressive agents such as azathioprine and methotrex- ate, anti-TNF-· therapy (infliximab) should be consid- ered, providing there are no absolute indications ... of Crohn’s disease and should include the conventional treatment escalation, beginning with corti- costeroids, azathioprine or methotrexate and finally anti- TNF-· therapy (inflixi...

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... extremely important in decision-making in common clinical prac- tice. This page intentionally left blank Emergencies and Complications in Gastroenterology 12 figures, 1 in color, and 14 tables, 2003 Editor Petr ... decreases portal flow and flow in the azygos veins in a 4- hour interval and the dose of 1 mg has a similar effect [25]. Interesting is the combination...

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... Study. Hepatology 2000;32 :47 1 47 6. 34 Levacher S, Letoumelin P, Paterson D, et al: Early administration of terlipressin plus glyc- eryl trinitrate to control active upper gastroin- testinal bleeding in cirrhotic ... MD, et al: Randomized, double-blind placebo-con- trolled trial of somatostatin for variceal bleed- ing. Gastroenterology 1990;99:1388–1395. 14 Lo GH, Lai KH, Cheng JS,...

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... balance. Acute Intestinal Failure Chronic intestinal failure may occur in a variety of set- tings including severe motility disorders (systemic sclero- sis, intestinal pseudo-obstruction), radiation injury, ... of Intestinal Failure Although the intestinal loss in intestinal failure can be extremely high, sometimes in excess of 5 litres/ 24 h and resembling a secretory diarrhoea, the...

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... lesions Adhesions Postoperative Primary Neoplasms Benign Malignant Intra-abdominal carcinomatosis Extraintestinal tumor Hernias Internal (paraduodenal, diaphragmatic, etc.) External (inguinal, umbilical, etc.) Intra-abdominal abscess Intestinal wall, intrinsic ... Radiological, laboratory and clinical findings are essential in estab- lishing the diagnosis. Surgery is the gold standard in...

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... uponbiological tissues in a radio-frequency power transfer link for a cortical visual implant. In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Engineering in Medicine and Biology. pp. 249 9-2 502. [32] Zheng, C. & ... Weak Inversion Composite MOS Transistor for Ultra-Low-Voltage and Ultra-Low-Power Applications. In Proceedings of 13th International Conference Mixed Design Intregated Circuit...

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... Program in Code List 1.9 1.2.3Examples This section presents examples of IEEE 32-bit and 6 4- bit floating point representations. Converting 100.5 to IEEE 32-bit notation is demonstrated in Example ... the file operation command for opening a file. The file definitions are defined in <iostream.h> by BORLAND C++ as shown in Table 1.7. Figure 1.1 Packing Attributes int...

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... (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL- 6), leptin, resistin, the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) and more recently omentin and visfatin. 79 TheroleofTNF-α, leptin, ... acids and inhibits pancreatic insulin secretion. 10 11β-HSD AND OBESITY 219 11β-HSD2, a 40 5-amino-acid protein, is encoded for on chromosome 16, and is localized to tissue expressing m...

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