[Unformed conglomerate debilitating jejunal fistulas and their two-stage surgical treatment via posterolateral laparotomy].

Objective: To create a method of two-stage repair of high unformed conglomerate delimited debilitating jejunal fistulas via posterolateral laparotomy with low risk of surgical complications.

Material And Methods: Methodology and treatment outcomes were analyzed in 37 patients with unformed conglomerate high debilitating delimited jejunal fistulas. Of these, 22 patients underwent one-stage treatment through 2 converging incisions and/or two-stage treatment through anterolateral access.

Biomarkers in PTSD-susceptible and resistant veterans with war experience of more than ten years ago: FOCUS ON cortisol, thyroid hormones, testosterone and GABA.

In the present study we measured the concentrations of cortisol, thyroid hormones, testosterone, and GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid) in am blood plasma samples of combatants with an at least 10 year history of military psychological trauma (N = 74) divided in groups that either suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (N = 37) or are resistant (N = 37) as well as in a control group without traumatic experience in the anamnesis, (N = 34). PTSD symptoms were assessed using the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS). The results show that the am blood cortisol levels of individuals that were exposed to war zone experiences irrespective susceptibility for or resistance to PTSD were significantly higher than the values observed in the controls.

Neural differentiation potential of sympathoadrenal progenitors derived from fresh and cryopreserved neonatal porcine adrenal glands.

Stem/progenitor cells are thought to have the potential in the treatment of severe neurodegenerative diseases. Recently, sympathoadrenal progenitors expressing specific markers of neural crest derivatives and capable to differentiate into neurons were discovered in adult bovine and human adrenal glands, but there was no reported data on cryopreservation of sympathoadrenal progenitors. The aim of the present study was to examine the neural differentiation potential of sympathoadrenal progenitors derived from fresh and cryopreserved neonatal porcine adrenal glands.

[Efficiency of treatment for recurrent tuberculosis and its influencing factors].

The efficiency of category II DOTS chemotherapy was studied in 353 patients with recurrent tuberculosis. The latter was verified by a positive sputum smear test in 232 of them and this test was negative in 121. A control group consisted of 79 first detected patients.

[The specific features of bacillary excretion and drug sensitivity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients with recurrent pulmonary tuberculosis].

Data on 485 patients with recurrent pulmonary tuberculosis were studied. At the beginning of the study, all the patients underwent a triple sputum smear test and sputum was cultured in 338 cases. Among persons with a negative smear, sputum inoculation yielded Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MBT) in 50%.