Camellia sinensis methanolic leaves extract: Phytochemical analysis and anticancer activity against human liver cancer cells.

Background: The study's primary goal is to ascertain whether there is a relationship between the processed green tea methanolic extract's (GTME) phytochemical components and its potential effectiveness against human liver cancer cells. The GTME's phytochemical composition was identified using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and the extract's capacity to lower cellular proliferation and cause apoptosis in HepG2 cancerous liver cell lines was checked.

Results: The findings of the gas chromatography-mass chromatogram showed that GTME included bioactive antioxidants and anticancer substances.

The Effect of Ondansetron on Improvement of Symptoms in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Diarrhea Domination: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Diarrhea-dominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) is a deliberating and chronic condition that can impair social activities. Determining proper medication with satisfactory outcomes has been a challenge. The 5-hydroxytryptamine 3 receptor antagonist (5-HT3 RA) drugs have demonstrated favorable outcomes on IBS-D in the last 3 decades.

Radiation-induced angiosarcoma of the breast: a case report.

Introduction: Breast angiosarcoma is a rare, aggressive tumour affecting adult women. It can occur in two forms, primary form and secondary forms or radiation-induced breast angiosarcoma affecting patients with history of breast or chest radiotherapy.

Case Presentation: The authors report a new case of breast angiosarcoma in 52-year-old women, with history of invasive ductal carcinoma, and reporting a discoloration of her breast skin.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor in the fourth portion of the duodenum does not express the CD117: A case report.

Introduction: Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the digestive tract.

Presentation Of Case: 54-year-old woman with a history of phyllodes tumor of the left breast he patient was admitted to our hospital for management of retroperitoneal soft tissue tumor, attached to the fourth portion of the duodenum, opposite the head of the pancreas. The patient underwent a large excision of the tumor, the duodenojejunal flexure, and the third and fourth portions of the duodenum along with the head of the pancreas.

Extra gastrointestinal stromal tumor EGIST in the recto-vesical pouch: A case report and literature review.

Introduction: Extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumors (EGISTs) are rare mesenchymal tumors located outside the gastrointestinal tract, and exhibit the same phenotypic and morphological profile of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs).

Case Report: We report the case of a 20-year-old male patient consulted for chronic discomfort in the hypogastric region. Abdominal ultrasound and abdomino-pelvic CT scan identified a retro-vesical mass measuring 16 × 9 cm.

A prospective study of energy and protein intakes in critically ill patients.

Background & Aims: Providing adequate and appropriate food and nutrients satisfying the patients' safe nutritional need is one of the most important care practices for critically ill patients (CIPs) in ICU settings, and is strongly related to the patients' safety.

Methods: In this prospective cross-sectional study data were collected from a 52-bed medical intensive care unit on 777 consecutive patients in six different ICUs. The patients' weights and heights were measured based on ulna length, knee height, MAC, Calf C, and Wrist C.

Implementation of the French national consensus for the management of ulcerative colitis into clinical practice.

Background: Recently, treatment algorithms were developed in France additionally to ECCO recommendations that should be used as reference for ulcerative colitis (UC) management. Nevertheless, their implementation in clinical practice remains challenging.

Aims: To evaluate the prevalence of the use of these UC management algorithms in 127 patients followed by private gastroenterologists.

[Long term outcomes of sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity].

Background: Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is a recent increasingly realized isolated procedure performed in the surgical treatment of obesity.

Aim: The goal of this study was to evaluate the long term postoperative results among a multicentric cohort.

Methods: Retrospective multicenter study including patients operated from 2006 to 2010 within the Brest's Bariatric Surgery Network.

Use of positron emission tomography in surgery follow-up of esophageal cancer.

Introduction: Although the prognosis of patients with esophageal cancer has been improved by extended dissection, the incidence of recurrence still remains high. In esophageal cancer, positron emission tomography (PET) using (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) already demonstrated to be useful for initial staging and monitoring response to therapy. This prospective study compared the ability of FDG-PET and conventional imaging to detect early recurrence of esophageal cancer after initial surgery in asymptomatic patients.

Metachronous cancer of gastroplasty after esophagectomy.

We reviewed two cases of adenocarcinoma of the gastric tube used for reconstruction after esophagectomy for cancer. The first case gastric cancer was detected during follow-up by endoscopic examination. Total resection of the gastric tube and reconstruction by Roux-en-Y was performed each time.

Right hepatectomies without vascular clamping: report of 87 cases.

Background/purpose: Portal triad clamping and total or intermittent hepatic vascular exclusion are usually used to reduce blood loss during major liver resections. We report, in this retrospective study, the results of right hepatectomy without vascular clamping.

Methods: From January 1986 to July 2001, 87 right hepatectomies, including 14 extended right hepatectomies, were performed without vascular clamping.

[Intrathyroid metastases from kidney cancers: two case reports].

The thyroid metastasis are under estimated in clinical practice because they are in the vast majority of cases "silent". Over than 50% of clinically apparent metastatic lesions are due to kidney carcinomas. We report two cases of thyroid metastasis from clear-cell renal carcinoma occurred 3 years and 8 years after nephrectomies.

[Perforated juxta-papillary duodenal diverticula: two cases].

Perforation of juxta-ampullary duodenal diverticula, occurring spontaneously or after abdominal trauma, is a severe condition. Diagnosis is difficult to establish and is based on tomodensitometry, which is the most reliable diagnostic tool. Treatment consists in diverticulectomy that can be associated with drainage of the duodenum or anastomosis between digestive and biliary tract.

Synthesis of phosphonic analogues of 4-hydroxyproline and 5-hydroxypipecolic acid.

Interest in non-natural amino acids is growing because of their potential biological activity. We describe in this paper, a synthesis of phosphonic analogues of 4-hydroxy proline and 5-hydroxy pipecolic acid.