BACKGROUND While gastric bypass has been the treatment of choice for morbid obesity, insufficient weight loss and even weight regain has been observed in a sub-group of patients. Dilatation of the pouch, pouch outlet, and proximal alimentary limb have been suggested to cause weight regain on the long term. The banded gastric bypass surgery has been introduced to overcome this problem. METHODS...

This study evaluates the results of endorectal Ileal J Pouch Anal Anastomosis (IJPAA) in 13 patients with Ulcerative colitis and 7 patients with familial adenomatous polyposis in 6 years in Emam Hosein Hospital. In the last, for this patients permanent Ileostomy was performed, but with (IJPAA) operation permanent Ileostomy is abandoned. Two patients, total colectomy rectal mocosectomy and ilea...

G astroplasty was originally developed to simplify gastric reduction operations for the treatment of obesity and thereby avoid complications peculiar to bypasses. Lessons learned from gastric bypass about pouch and outlet size increased in importance with gastroplasty. An extensive literature exists that requires careful reading to understand the technical causes of excessively high reoperation...

Infection by Helicobacter pylori elicits persistent neutrophil infiltration in the gastric mucosa and stimulates the release of substances that may contribute to the establishment of gastritis. In this study, we used the rat air pouch model to evaluate the acute inflammatory response to H. pylori, in vivo. A pronounced neutrophil infiltration was observed 6 h and 12 h after the injection of H. ...

Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) used to be a very popular bariatric procedure at a certain time for the treatment of obesity as it has many advantages and is associated with low morbidity and mortality rates. Complications are often late and are rarely seen by general surgeons due to the limited number of patients, and physicians should be aware of the symptoms. We present a case...

A new compound, 2-phenyl-2-(2-pyridyl) thioacetamide (Fig. 1) with a powerful inhibitory effect on gastric secretion has recently been synthesised.' Bedi, Gillespie, and Gillespie (1967), using vagally innervated and Heidenhain pouch dogs, have shown it to inhibit gastrin-stimulated acid secretion. In that they failed to demonstrate any effect on histaminestimulated or amechol-stimulated gastri...

A crystalline protein having powerful proteolytic activity has been described in previous papers of this series (1). This protein was isolated from commercial pepsin preparations which, in turn, had been prepared from the gastric mucosa of swine, t The possibility exists that this protein was formed from some more complicated compound during the process of extraction and does not represent the ...

We herein report two cases showing long-term complete remission (CR) in response to S-1 monotherapy. Case 1 was a 65-year-old male diagnosed with an advanced poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the stomach with paraaortic lymph node metastases, which disappeared after S-1 monotherapy. Subsequently a total gastrectomy was performed, and histological CR was evident. His progress is presently ...

This work studies the efficacy of an autogenous viable omental pouch as a means of splenorrhaphy for saving the traumatised spleen. One sheep and 9 goat spleens were mobilised and their vascular pedicles clamped. All spleens were subjected to AAST grade IV trauma. The injured spleens were put into omental pouches and manual pressure was applied for 10 minutes after removal of the vascular clamp...

EDITORIAL SYNOPSIS Evidence is presented from studies in dogs with Heidenhain pouches and with the remainder of the stomach removed that total vagotomy increases the response of the pouch to the intestinal phase of acid secretion. The relative importance of the anterior and posterior vagal trunks has been studied by dividing these separately. Of the various theoretical explanations for this fin...