Intestinal fatty acid-binding protein (I-FABP) as biomarker of ischemic damage in experimentally induced 12-h small bowel obstruction.

Laboratory tests have low diagnostic specificity for strangulated intestinal obstruction. The diagnostic potential of the intestinal fatty acid-binding protein (I-FABP) expressed in the tips of the intestinal villi continues to be explored. The number of white blood cells, blood plasma levels of L-lactate, C-reactive protein (CRP) and I-FABP were measured in rats with experimentally induced 12-h strangulated and non-strangulated intestinal obstruction.

Surgical and endovascular treatment of pelvic venous disorder: Results of a multicentre retrospective cohort study.

Objective: In the present study, we investigated the clinical outcomes after gonadal vein resection (GVR) and gonadal vein embolization (GVE) with coils in patients with pelvic venous disorder (PeVD). We also assessed the rates of procedural complications and disease recurrence.

Methods: Our multicenter retrospective cohort study included 361 female patients with PeVD-related chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and gonadal vein reflux who underwent GVR (n = 184) or GVE with coils (n = 177) from 1999 to 2020.

Thermal effects of monopolar electrosurgery detected by real-time infrared thermography: an experimental appendectomy study.

Background: Monopolar energy (ME) is routinely used in appendectomy. This study aimed to investigate the degree of lateral thermal spread generated by ME and to evaluate the thermal injury sustained by the close-lying tissues.

Methods: Appendectomy with a monopolar Maryland dissector was performed in 8 rabbits (at 30 and 60 W power settings).

Pancreas-preserving duodenal resections with bile and pancreatic duct replantation for duodenal dystrophy. Two case reports.

Context: Duodenal dystrophy is a rare disease, characterized by the chronic inflammation of the aberrant pancreatic tissue in the duodenal wall.

Case Reports: Two middle-aged men were admitted with upper abdominal pain of several months duration, periodic nausea and vomiting after meals, intermittent jaundice and weight loss. A diagnosis of cystic dystrophy of the vertical part of the duodenum without chronic inflammation of the orthotopic pancreas was established in both cases by multi-detector computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and endosonography.