Survival after elective surgery for colonic cancer in Denmark.

Aim: Total mesorectal excision (TME) has been shown to improve the outcome for patients with rectal cancer. In contrast, there are fewer data on complete mesocolic excision (CME) for colonic cancer.

Method: Data from the National Colorectal Cancer Database were analysed.

Gastrointestinal dysfunction in a community sample of subjects with symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.

Background/aim: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects about 15-20% of the population of the Western countries. Traditionally, IBS has been an exclusion diagnosis, but recently definitions have emerged from population-based research. The aim of this population-based study was to evaluate any association between gastrointestinal pathophysiology and IBS in subjects with symptoms of IBS compared to subjects with no abdominal complaints.

[Perioperative administration of recombinant human erythropoietin in colorectal cancer surgery. A prospective, randomized, double-blind placebo controlled study].

One hundred patients scheduled for elective colo-rectal cancer surgery, and with a preoperative haemoglobin level < or = 8.5 mmol/l were included. Eighty-one patients could be evaluated.

Bile reflux into the esophagus. Bilitec 2000 measurements in normal subjects and in patients after Nissen fundoplication.

Background: Bilitec 2000 is a new spectrophotometric system that can detect bilirubin within the esophagus. The aim of this study was to test this new system in vitro and in vivo with special attention to patients operated on laparoscopically for gastroesophageal reflux with Nissen fundoplication.

Methods: In vitro studies of gallbladder bile dilution curves at different pHs were performed with a combined pH and Bilitec probe and by investigation of the drift of the Bilitec system.