Paediatric Rome III Criteria-Related Abdominal Pain Is Associated With Helicobacter pylori and Not With Calprotectin.

Objectives: Abdominal pain-related functional gastrointestinal disorders in children include functional dyspepsia, functional abdominal pain, irritable bowel syndrome, and abdominal migraine. We aimed to evaluate a possible association between functional abdominal pain disorders and Helicobacter pylori infection and faecal calprotectin level.

Methods: Prospective observational study including consecutive children with functional gastrointestinal disorders fulfilling Rome III criteria (cases) and age/sex-matched healthy controls.

[Hepatolithiasis--a rare disorder in our population].

Aim: The authors describe diagnostic and therapeutic options of hepatolithiasis, which is a rare disorder in our population.

Methodology: The authors present 3 case--reviews of patients operated for hepatolithiasis in the Plzen Faculty Hospital Surgical Clinic during 2000-2008. In a single subject, the finding was related to a Caroli syndrome.

[The occurrence of malignancies in former blood donors].

Occurrence of malignancies in the group of 267 former blood donors who donated blood 20 times and more (multiple donors) were compared with those who donated blood 10 times or less. Cohorts were comparable in age, period from the first donation and ratio of blood groups in A, B, 0 system. In the group of multiple donors, 31 (11.

[Is the extent of present examination of blood donors sufficient? Malignancies in active blood donors].

Casuistry brings the evidence that the present extent of examination before each blood donation is not sufficient for the identification of malignancies. Donation of blood can coincide with the development of tumour into a far gone stage or into generalization. Sensitivity of the pre-extraction examination for the presence of malignancy is low.