Tuberculosis Mimicking Disseminated Peritoneal Carcinomatosis of a Sigmoid Carcinoma.

Background: A 76-year-old Moroccan patient with a medical history of sigmoid carcinoma suffered from weight loss of 15 kg and abdominal pain. Laparoscopy showed disseminated miliary peritoneal lesions, prima vista suspicious for disseminated peritoneal cancer spread.

Methods: Patient's medical history was reprocessed and compared to recent literature via PubMed.

Sonographic assessment of spleen size in Turkish migrants with Familial Mediterranean fever in Germany.

Objectives: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) can be associated with splenomegaly. Prospective quantitative data are lacking. We performed a sonographic assessment of spleen size in patients with FMF and healthy control participants to assess its diagnostic value.

Bacteribilia after preoperative bile duct stenting: a prospective study.

Study Design: A prospective analysis of intraoperative bile duct cultures in patients undergoing surgery for both, malignant or benign periampullary diseases at the Department of Surgery, St Josef Hospital, Bochum, Germany, during a period of 18 months, between January 2004 and June 2005.

Goals: The goals of the presented study were to investigate the effects of preoperative bile duct stenting on intraoperative bile duct cultures and postoperative outcome in patients undergoing pancreatic surgery.

Background: In pancreatic surgery, bile duct stenting is often aimed at improving postoperative outcome.

Uridine supplementation enhances hepatic mitochondrial function in thymidine-analogue treated HIV-infected patients.

Supplementation with uridine offers the possibility of a new and promising approach to nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor-associated mitochondrial toxicity. We investigated the metabolic effects of short-course treatment with the uridine-enriched food supplement NucleomaxX on hepatic mitochondrial function in thymidine-analogue treated HIV-infected patients. Mitochondrial function was assessed by a recently introduced non-invasive C-methionine breath test.

13C-methionine breath test detects distinct hepatic mitochondrial dysfunction in HIV-infected patients with normal serum lactate.

Objective: To assess mitochondrial respiratory chain dysfunction in different treatment groups of HIV-infected patients with normal serum lactate by measuring hepatic mitochondrial decarboxylation capacity by the C-methionine breath test (MeBT) and to correlate MeBT results with mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) content in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs).

Methods: Four groups were studied: HIV-negative controls (n = 10), treatment-naive patients (n = 15), antiretroviral therapy (ART)-treated patients with asymptomatic disease (n = 15), and patients with long-term treatment and clinical evidence of lipoatrophy (n = 15). After oral administration of C-methionine, CO2 exhalation was determined by infrared spectroscopy.