Examination of gastroesophageal reflux by transabdominal ultrasound: can a slow, trickling form of reflux be responsible for reflux esophagitis?

Background: Ultrasound can visualize significant portions of the upper and lower esophagus; it is without any instrumental interference in real conditions and displays events in motion.

Purpose: To study the events that occur during swallowing and gastroesophageal reflux.

Patients And Methods: Group 1 comprised 25 patients with retrosternal complaints, selected for esophageal surface ultrasonography for endoscopic signs of esophagitis.

[A recovered case of actinomycosis in the small intestines diagnosed with ultrasonography].

The authors report the history of a patient suffering from abdominal actinomycosis. The correct diagnosis could be established by an ultrasound-guided aspiration sampling from the small-intestinal abscess, following the sonographic localisation of the lesion. The patient recovered by a long-term antibiotic treatment.

[The use of a somatostatin analog (Sandostatin) in percutaneous drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts].

The inflammatory pancreatic diseases are usually hardly governable; special problems are arosen with the treatment of pancreatic fluid collections. The focal pericystic pancreatitis, the reactive inflammation developing in the course of the injury of the gland as well as draining pancreatic duct filling the cyst up may result in pitfalls. Thus subcutaneous administration of Sandostatin was added to the usual therapeutic regimen in 12 patients.

[Gluing of sterile abdominal benign cyst walls with tissue adhesives (Tissucol) (preliminary report)].

The authors, endeavouring to stick the walls of percutaneously emptied cysts together had applied the two-component Tissucol fibrin glue in the treatment of abdominal and thoracic cysts. Their ten cases, however, may be considered only as preliminary experiences. It seems that the method can be recommended for an attempt to cease these formations in a fast and simple way.

Immunological side effects of some long term taking medicaments.

In view of epidemiologic aspects of AIDS we studied the immunological side-effects of oral hormonal contraceptives and the barbiturates--which are used by many people in Hungary. We studied healthy persons using more than six months one of the above described drugs. We found significant decrease in the number of "O" cells and in the serum concentration of IgG in the O.

[Visible venous bloodflow in real-time abdominal sonography, possibly a sign of hepatitis B virus-induced, compensated immune hemolysis].

In 15 patients examined for the suspicion of hepatobiliary disease the venous blood flow was visible by the permanent circulation of soft particles in both the systemic and the portal veins with abdominal real-time ultrasonography. In order to clarify the background of the phenomenon there were extended laboratory examinations carried out. In the course of them the infectedness of the patients with Hepatitis-B virus, immune haemolysis and the disorder of the cellular immunity could be demonstrated.

[Ultrasound-guided percutaneous antegrade wirsungography in chronic calcifying pancreatitis].

Dilated pancreatic duct was found by ultrasonography in a patient in association with the characteristic sonographic features of chronic calcifying pancreatitis. Endoscopic retrograde pancreatography showed an obstruction of the Wirsung's duct 3 cm far from the papilla of Vater. Further parts of the duct could not be opacified by this manner.