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OBJECTIVE
Endoscopic sphincterotomy has become a generally accepted method for extracting common bile duct stones in high risk or cholecystectomized patients. However, stone extraction is impossible by the usual methods in 5 to 10% of cases. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a
Incidence of pediatric urolithiasis is decreasing in most developing countries where endemic bladder stones are less prevalent than in the past years. In parallel, stone composition has changed. Only few data are available in North Africa, except for Tunisia. We report stone Urogenital infections are a major reason that women visit their family physician and are referred to gastroenterology, gynecology, urology, and infectious disease specialists. The association between abnormal vaginal microbiota and increased risk for sexually transmitted infections, bladder and
Rotavirus (RV) is a common pathogen that causes acute gastroenteritis in childhood. Some cases with RV infection also have prerenal renal failure induced by dehydration associated with vomiting and diarrhea. Here, we report 4 patients with RV infection who developed postrenal renal failure induced
OBJECTIVE
To report a patient with sulfadiazine-induced urolithiasis and acute renal failure.
METHODS
A patient with AIDS who was being treated with pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine for Toxoplasma encephalitis developed lumbar pain, dysuria, urinary frequency, and hematuria. Acute renal failure was
Seventeen patients with bile duct calculi were treated alternately with a preparation of glycerol octanoate and a bile salt-EDTA solution via a nasobiliary tube. Of 14 patients (group I), it was necessary to operate on four immediately after irrigation therapy, success resulted from this
A 63 year old patient underwent uneventful laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 1994. The patient had a long history of biliary colic after fatty meals. The chief presenting symptom was pain localized in the epigastrium radiating to the back and later distributing to the whole abdomen. The patient also
We examined several parameters of urine excretion during a two-year initiation-promotion experiment in male Fischer rats using four weeks of N-[4-(5-nitro-2-furyl)-2-thiazoly]formamide at 0.2% of the diet as the initiating agent and either 5% sodium saccharin or 2% L-tryptophan in the diet as
Surgical treatment for Crohn's disease of the small bowel or ileocecal region consists of resection. Surgery is not for cure but rather to relieve symptoms. In this respect resectional surgery has proved to be superior to present day medical management. The main arguments against resectional surgery
To determine if symptomatic patients referred for radiographic stool quantification have equivalent stool burden to asymptomatic patients.This was an IRB-approved HIPAA-compliant retrospective equivalence cohort study. An a priori equivalence power A 13-year-old boy with ulcerative colitis was admitted to our hospital for the purpose of controlling diarrhea. He had received total colectomy and had been managed by intravenous hyper alimentation because of severe diarrhea (10 times/day). Oral intake had been prohibited except for fluid.
Dietary supplementation with bisacodyl at concentrations ranging from 1 to 0.3% was found to induce both calculi and epithelial proliferative lesions, including a transitional-cell carcinoma, in the urinary bladder of F344/DuCrj rats. In order to clarify the relationship between the
OBJECTIVE
To determine whether prazosin administration following urethral obstruction (UO) reduces the risk for recurrent urethral obstruction (rUO) or lower urinary tract signs, and to document adverse effects associated with prazosin use in cats.
METHODS
Double-blinded, prospective, interventional
Five cases of acalculous cholecystitis associated with Cryptosporidium intestinal infection in HIV infected patients are reported. Clinical, Biological and Microbiological features as well as imaging studies are described. All the patients were males. Risk factors for HIV infection included previous
Three dead dogs were brought to the College of Veterinary Medicine, Kyungpook National University for study. Clinically, all the dogs showed emaciation, anorexia, depression, hemorrhagic vomiting and diarrhea for 7-10 days before death. All the clinical signs were first noted for about one month