Swallowing Function After Treatment of Laryngeal Cancer.

Dysphagia is a common functional outcome following treatment of laryngeal cancer. Despite curative advances in both nonsurgical and surgical approaches, preserving and optimizing swallowing function is critical. Understanding the nature and severity of dysphagia depending on initial tumor staging and treatment modality and intensity is crucial.

Prognosis of human liver transplantation.

The results of publications on liver transplantation were diverse since several years, without model prognosis. The impossibility was due to the international system of measurement. We resorted to vector functions for calculating the ratios of biological values.

Immunohistochemical hepatocytes nuclear test for the evaluation of responses to treatment of the chronic hepatitis C by interferon alpha.

The results of the microscopic examinations on 23 paired liver biopsies of patients affected by the chronic hepatitis C, were realized successively before and after treatment by interferon alpha during six months. They showed a particular interest in the use of the antibody Anticore. The other antibody Anti C100-3-clone Tordji 32, was partially associated with the Anticore to improve its total number of positive responses by interchanging the loss of 3 wrong positive numbers (-) of the same patients from the Anticore, against earnings of 3 wrong negative numbers (+) for the same patients from the Anti C100-3-clone 32.

Evaluation of glycogen loss in human liver transplants. Histochemical zonation of glycogen loss in cold ischemia and reperfusion.

To find a prognosis model of human liver transplant, we evaluate 62 surgical biopsies for the loss of glycogen and its variations in relation to cold ischemia, reperfusion, lobular zonation and donor's ages. We applied univariate, multivariate and discriminant analysis and logistic regression. There was a clear lobular zonation of glycogen during cold ischemia and at reperfusion.

Circadian variations in the responsiveness of human gallbladder to sulfated mineral water.

It is well known that the intake of sulfate-containing natural mineral waters leads to contraction of the gallbladder, probably induced by the release of cholecystokinin (CCK). As early as 1959, there were some hints in the literature of circadian variations in gallbladder response; to find out whether this applies with sulfate as a stimulus, a pretest for basic information about gallbladder reaction to sulfate-containing mineral water was carried out on 19 healthy volunteers. On this basis, 15 healthy subjects of both sexes were then studied.