Surgical management of liver hydatidosis: a multicentre series of 1412 patients.

Background: The management of hydatid liver disease (HLD) includes various nonsurgical and surgical treatment options.

Methods: The purpose of the present longitudinal study was to report the changes in surgical management and the consequent outcome of HLD patients in 10 referral surgical centres in Argentina from 1975 to 2007. The study result analysis was divided into two study periods (1975-1990 and 1991-2007).

Effects of allopurinol on ischemic experimental pancreatitis.

The effect of allopurinol, a xanthine oxidase inhibitor, on canine experimental ischemic pancreatitis was studied. The animals were divided into nine groups: 1. Group 1.

[Secretin and pancreatic secretion in iron absorption].

Iron absorption in dogs without pancreatic secretion was studied measuring the percentage of radioactivity retained in red cells. Two groups were treated con 59Fe (5 microCi), given in the stomach: one group control and other undergoing pancreatic duct ligation. Increased absorption was observed in the last group.