Metachronous carcinoma of the gastric tube following tumour-associated oesophagectomy.

Introduction: The prognosis of oesophageal carcinoma has improved during the last years. Thereby, the increasing survival has led to increasing occurrence of secondary gastric tube carcinoma (gastric conduit cancer, GTC) following oesophageal tumour resection.

Material And Patients: A literature review (EMBASE, PubMed), spanning the years 2000 to 2020, identified 342 patients worldwide with a GTC following tumour-related oesophagectomy, of which 306 patients could be included for further analysis.

Role of different replacement fluids during extracorporeal treatment in a pig model of sepsis.

In an extracorporeal combination therapy, the impact of different replacement fluids on survival was tested in a bacterial sepsis model in pigs. In an animal study 19 pigs, weighing 7.5-11.

Transition metal sulfide hydrogen evolution catalysts for hydrobromic acid electrolysis.

Mixed metal sulfides containing combinations of W, Fe, Mo, Ni, and Ru were synthesized and screened for activity and stability for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in aqueous hydrobromic acid (HBr). Co- and Ni-substituted RuS(2) were identified as potentially active HER electrocatalysts by high-throughput screening (HTS), and the specific compositions Co(0.4)Ru(0.

Plasma separation by centrifugation and subsequent plasma filtration: impact on survival in a pig model of sepsis.

The impact on survival of a combination of plasma separation by centrifugation and subsequent plasma filtration was tested in a bacterial sepsis model in pigs. In this animal study 19 pigs were included. Groups II and III received an intravenous lethal dose of live Staphylococcus aureus over 1 h; group I received saline (non-septic control--NC).

Radiograph-based study of gender-specific vertebral area gain in healthy children and adolescents as a function of age, height, and weight.

This study reports gender-specific vertebral area gain data from children and adolescents. Vertebral area was measured on lateral and anteroposterior thoracic and lumbar spine radiographs from 100 female and 100 male subjects aged 7-28 yr. T9, T11, T12, L1, and L2 X-ray area calculation was based on calculation of the area of the geometric figure of a trapezoid whose 2 nonparallel sides were equal in length, taking account of the waisted shape of the vertebrae.