OBJECTIVES Using survival and neurologic outcome as endpoints , this study explored the incremental cost effectiveness of three mutually exclusive cooling strategies employed after resuscitated out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. DESIGN Economic analysis based on retrospective data collection and Markov modeling. SETTING Modeling based on patients housed in a tertiary ICU setting. PATIENTS P...

Background We intended to determine the incidence of endometriosis at diagnostic laparoscopy for infertility problem and pelvic pain and/or cyst. In addition we aimed to evaluate symptoms, different stages and locations of endometriosis in fertile or infertile endometriosis patients. MaterialsAndMethods This observational cross-sectional study was performed in the Department of Obstetrics and G...

In the implementation of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) there is a risk of infection arising from the orifices of the body and the endoscope used. This study investigates the need for and efficiency of gastric lavage in reducing the risk of peritoneal infection in transgastric intraperitoneal surgery. In this study, Wistar-Albino rats were divided into 4 groups of 8. Ga...

Objective(s): Abdominal adhesions are one of the most important problems, occurring after intra-abdominal surgery in more than 90% of cases. This condition is the leading cause of bowel obstruction, infertility, and abdominal/pelvic pain. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have been shown to be non-toxic and exhibit anti-inflammatory, anti-angiogenic and antioxidant activities. The purpose of this study...

Objective: To observe the effect and mechanisms of peritoneal lavage with ulinastatin on the inflammatory reaction and expression and staining intensity of P-selectin in SAP rats. Methods: Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) model of rat was made by retrograde infusion of 5% sodium taurocholate into the pancreatic duct. After establishment of SAP model, intraperitoneal lavage was performed immediat...

BACKGROUND Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a treatment modality for patients with renal failure. Both the uraemic state of these patients and chronic exposure to PD fluid are associated with the development of functional and structural alterations of the peritoneal membrane. In a well-established chronic PD rat model, we compared rats with normal renal function with subtotal nephrectomized rats tha...

Peritoneal carcinomatosis is the most frequent pattern of metastasis and recurrence in patients with gastric cancer, and the prognosis of those patients with peritoneal metastasis is extremely poor. Once peritoneal metastasis is formed, it is extremely difficult to overcome. EIPL (extensive intraoperative peritoneal lavage) is a quite useful and practical adjuvant surgical technique for the gas...

A variety of methods for production of eosinophil-rich guinea pig peritoneal exudates were tested in order to procure large numbers of purified eosinophils. Repeated peritoneal lavage with saline did not produce peritoneal eosinophilia, nor did intraperitoneal injection of dextran beads. Mast cell degranulating agents polymyxin B and, to a lesser degree, compound 48/80 produced significant peri...