Long-term follow-up and factors influencing success of silastic ring vertical gastroplasty.

Background: Careful selection of patients for the operation plays a major role in long-term results of silastic ring vertical gastroplasty. The objective of the current study is to identify predictive factors for the objective (excess weight loss) and subjective (satisfaction) success of silastic ring vertical gastroplasty (SRVG) for morbid obesity.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Chronic lithium treatment affects rat brain and serum dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA-sulphate (DHEA-S) levels.

Lithium (Li) is an established effective treatment for bipolar disorder. However, the molecular mechanism of its action is still unknown. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulphate ester (DHEA-S) are adrenal hormones also synthesized de novo in the brain as neurosteroids.

Brain neurosteroid changes after paroxetine administration in mice.

Although it is known that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), as other antidepressants, elevate mood only after 3-4 weeks of treatment, the mechanism responsible for this delay is not understood. SSRIs have been demonstrated to alter the levels of neurosteroids such as allopregnanolone (THP) which possess anxiolytic and mood-elevating properties. We compared the effect of 9 and 21 days i.

Clozapine decreases rat brain dehydroepiandrosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels.

We examined the influence of the atypical antipsychotic agent clozapine compared to haloperidol, on levels of dehydroepiandrosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate ester (both gamma-aminobutyric acid(A) (GABA(A)) receptor allosteric antagonists) in the rat cortex. i.p.

Periappendiceal actinomycosis mimicking malignancy report of a case.

A case of a periappendiceal actinomycosis, seen in an 83-year-old woman, clinically mimicking a right ovarian neoplasm penetrating the right colon, is presented. The patient's complaints led to the discovery of a right abdominal mass. Explorative laparotomy and right hemicolectomy were done.