Assessing cognitive impairment in an ethnically diverse cohort of oldest-old: the life after 90 study.

Background: Though dementia rates vary by racial or ethnic groups, it is unknown if these disparities remain among those aged 90 or older.

Aims: To test this hypothesis, we used baseline clinical evaluation of 541 ethnically and racially diverse individuals participating in the LifeAfter90 Study to assess how associations between core demographic characteristics and measures of physical and cognitive performance differ across the racial/ethnic groups.

Methods: Participants in this study were long-term non-demented members of Kaiser Permanente Northern California.

[The splanchnic blood flow indices in the patients, suffering external pancreatic fistula, and their dynamics under the influence of sandostatin and somatulin according to the ultrasonographic duplex scanning data].

Hemodynamical effects of the somatostatin analogues were studied in the patients with external pancreatic fistula. There were examined 29 patients, using ultrasonographic duplex scanning, for investigation of the blood flow indices in a. mesenterica superior, truncus coeliacus and its branches, v.

[Surgical treatment of pancreatic fistula].

Results of treatment of 149 patients with external pancreatic fistula for 1990-2000 yrs period were analyzed. Roentgencontrast fistulography, ultrasonic investigation, endoscopic retrograde pancreatography are the main diagnostic methods of the disease. Conservative therapy was conducted in 57 patients, sandostatin was administered in 0.

[Drainage or resecting surgery in chronic pancreatitis?].

An analysis was done of treatment of 333 patients with complicated forms of chronic pancreatitis (ChP) who had undergone interventions in the pancreas over the period 1996-2001. The draining operations having been performed in the above patients came up to 91.3 percent of the total number of operations while resecting type surgery was 8.