PURPOSE This aims of this study are to establish an ultra-rapid quantitative reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) protocol that enables the diagnosis of i.p. cancer spread during operation, to reveal the mechanisms of peritoneal metastasis from non-serosa-invasive gastric carcinoma, and to evaluate the effect of the extensive intraoperative peritoneal lavage (EIPL) using the ultra-rapid quantitat...

The gastric cancer generally is considered a geriatric disease, which occurs commonly among lower socioeconomical levels of the populations. There are wide differences in the gastric cancer occurrence among different geographical regions. In Iran, the northern and the northwestern regions are with the most higher risk of gastric cancer occurrences. In spite of the recent gastroscopical examinat...

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...

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...