Late-Onset Bowel Strangulation due to Reduction En Masse of Inguinal Hernia.

Incarcerated inguinal hernia is often encountered by surgeons in daily practice. Although rare, hernial reduction en masse is a potential complication of manual reduction of an incarcerated hernia. Manual reduction was performed in a case of Zollinger classification type VII (combined type) hernia in which the indirect hernia portion included an incarcerated small intestine.

Induction of donor-specific tolerance to allogeneic hepatocytes by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.

Allogenic hepatocytes are rejected within a few days after transplantation without immunosuppression. We previously showed that the peripheral tolerance did not effectively prolong the survival of allogeneic hepatocytes transplanted in the spleen, because anergic T cells lysed allogeneic hepatocytes through Fas/Fas ligand system. The aim of this study was to address whether or not the central tolerance induced by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) allows transplanted hepatocytes to survive in the spleen of the recipient.

Evaluation of a non-shunting operation by measurement of the blood flow velocity using transendoscopic microvascular Doppler sonography for esophageal and gastric varices.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether transendoscopic microvascular Doppler sonography (EMDS) is useful to analyze Hassab's operation and esophageal transection (non-shunting operation) which are effective for patients with esophagogastric varices. Twenty patients with esophagogastric varices were examined. Before the operation, we examined the conditions of the esophagogastric varices and measured the velocity of the varices with EMDS.