Objectives: This study aimed to compare primary surgical versus nonsurgical treatment in a series of patients with infected pancreatic necrosis (IPN) and to investigate whether the success of nonsurgical approach is related to a less severe disease.
Methods: Thirty-nine consecutive patients with IPN have been included and further subdivided into two groups: primary surgical (n = 21) versus nonsurgical (n = 18). Outcome measures were the differences in mortality, morbidity, and pancreatic function.
Objectives: To evaluate the effect of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) eradication on ulcer bleeding recurrence in a prospective, long-term study including 1,000 patients.
Methods: Patients with peptic ulcer bleeding were prospectively included.
Aims: to assess oxidative stress in acute pancreatitis, its evolution over time and its relationship with the severity of the disease.
Methods: during a two-year period, patients with acute pancreatitis with less than 24 hours of pain were evaluated. Serum was obtained the first, second and fourth day from admittance, if complications were detected, and after recovery.
Rev Esp Enferm Dig
July 2010
Aim: Upper oesophageal pH monitoring may play a significant role in the study of extra-oesophageal GERD, but limited normal data are available to date. Our aim was to develop a large series of normal values of proximal oesophageal acidification.
Methods: 155 healthy volunteers (74 male) participated in a multi-centre national study including oesophageal manometry and 24 hours oesophageal pH monitoring using two electrodes individually located 5 cm above the LOS and 3 cm below the UOS.