Eye enucleation and exenteration in -cattle: a retrospective study of 38 cases (2013-2020).

The study aimed to describe clinical indications for eye enucleation and exenteration, the occurrence of complications and long-term outcome in cattle, and examine owners' attitude towards enucleation and exenteration and their satisfaction with the surgical outcome. Medical records from the two veterinary teaching hospitals in Switzerland were reviewed to identify cattle that underwent unilateral enucleation or exenteration between January 2013 and December 2020. Data extracted included medical history, ocular examination, clinical diagnosis, surgical procedure including anesthesia, suture material and pattern used, complications, and treatment thereof.

Daratumumab: Therapeutic asset, biological trap!

Objectives: Recently, daratumumab has been included in the therapeutic strategies for myeloma patients. This molecule is an antibody directed against CD38, strongly expressed on plasma cells. Nevertheless, as CD38 is also present on erythrocyte membrane, daratumumab interferes with immunohaematological tests, complicating the selection of compatible blood.

Transfusion support of autoimmune hemolytic anemia: how could the blood group genotyping help?

Conventional pretransfusion testing based on hemagglutination assays can be challenging for patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) because of the presence of auto-antibodies. It has been suggested that deoxyribonucleic acid-based methods could be more efficient in the selection of antigen-matched red blood cell units in those settings. Because of the high risk of alloimmunization of these patients and the labor-intensive nature of adsorption techniques, we decided to evaluate the feasibility of selecting antigen-matched units on the basis of RBC genotyping.

Selenium content of Belgian cultivated soils and its uptake by field crops and vegetables.

A series of 695 food crops were collected on 539 soils throughout Belgium. All samples were collected on commercial production fields, omitting private gardens. All crops were analyzed for their selenium (Se) concentration.

Selenium bioaccessibility and bioavailability in Se-enriched food supplements.

Most European people have selenium (Se) intake inferior to recommended values that are considered necessary to ensure the beneficial action of antioxidant selenoproteins. People could therefore tend to have recourse to Se-enriched food supplements (FS) aiming to increase their Se body level. On the Belgian market, three main types of Se-rich FS are available: Se-enriched yeast, selenate-based FS, and selenite-based FS.

Predicted dietary intake of selenium by the general adult population in Belgium.

The total selenium content of about 800 food products purchased in Belgium was determined and combined with food records to determine the nutritional selenium status of Belgian people. The largest selenium concentrations (>1 mg kg(-1)) were found in Brazil nuts and offal, of which the consumption is limited. Usually consumed food groups with the highest selenium concentrations were fish and shellfish (0.

An in vitro investigation of species-dependent intestinal transport of selenium and the impact of this process on selenium bioavailability.

A range of Se species has been shown to occur in a variety of different foodstuffs. Depending on its speciation, Se is more or less bioavailable to human subjects. In the present study, the role of speciation as a determinant of Se bioavailability was addressed with an investigation of species-specific mechanisms of transport at the intestinal level.

Efficiency of a Lactobacillus plantarum-xylanase combination on growth performances, microflora populations, and nutrient digestibilities of broilers infected with Salmonella Typhimurium.

Three experiments were performed to assess the ability of a Lactobacillus plantarum probiotic combined with a xylanase to reduce the effects of Salmonella Typhimurium infection in broiler chickens from 1 to 30 or 42 d of age. Chicks were challenged at 3 d of age with 10(8) or 10(5) cfu Salmonella Typhimurium/chick. Four diets were studied: a wheat-based diet (C+) supplemented with 0.

Assessment of the analytical performance and the sensitivity of serum free light chains immunoassay in patients with monoclonal gammopathy.

Objectives: A new immunoassay which quantifies Kappa, Lambda free light chains (FLC) and a ratio of Kappa to Lambda FLC has been reported to be sensitive for detecting a variety of FLC diseases. We assessed the analytical criteria and the diagnostic performance of this immunoassay in patients who present a monoclonal gammopathy.

Design And Methods: Quantification of FLC, serum protein electrophoresis (SPE) and immunofixation (IFE) were performed on patients who present a monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), an intact immunoglobulin multiple myeloma (IIMM) or a light chain multiple myeloma (LCMM).

Lyophilized preparations of bacteriocinogenic Lactobacillus curvatus and Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis as potential protective adjuncts to control Listeria monocytogenes in dry-fermented sausages.

Aim: Study of the effectiveness of in situ bacteriocin production by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) to control Listeria monocytogenes in dry-fermented sausages.

Methods And Results: Two bacteriocin-producing strains: Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis LMG21206 and Lactobacillus curvatus LBPE were grown in a pilot scale fermentor and lyophilized to be directly used in dry sausage fermentation.

Preferential reduction in vascular responses to endothelin-1 in rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes.

The effects of vasodepressor (acetylcholine and bradykinin) and pressor [electrical stimulation of the spinal sympathetic outflow, norepinephrine and endothelin-1 (ET-1)] stimuli were determined in rats with 2- and 5-week untreated streptozotocin-induced diabetes (blood glucose 400 and >500 mg/dl, respectively). In pentobarbital-anesthetized animals, the hypotensive response to an intravenous dose of acetylcholine or bradykinin was unaffected in animals treated for 2 weeks with streptozotocin but was significantly reduced (22% and 48%, respectively) after 5 weeks. However, the pressor responses to ET-1 were significantly decreased in animals that had been given streptozotocin 2 (38%) and 5 (45%) weeks previously.

[Pancreatico-jejunal anastomosis with invagination on isolated loop after cephalic pancreatoduodenectomy].

The most frequent and most dangerous complication of the duodenopancreatectomy is pancreatic fistula due to dehiscence of the pancreatic anastomosis. A technique that uses a separate Roux en Y loop for pancreatic anastomosis, to reduce the fatal risks of the pancreatic fistula, has been initially reported more than 50 years ago. With the development of the pancreaticogastrostomy, it seems interesting to present a procedure using an isolated loop for the pancreas; this technique is derived from those previously published, allowing a good intussuception of the pancreas in the intestinal loop.

Pharmacological evidence that NK-2 tachykinin receptors mediate hypotension in the guinea pig but not in the rat.

Vascular NK-1 and NK-2 tachykinin receptors in the rat and the guinea pig were characterized pharmacologically by using available agonists and antagonists exhibiting varying degrees of selectivity for these receptors. Because the anesthetized guinea pig has unusually low blood pressure, these animals were pithed and vagotomized and infused, throughout the experimental procedure, with norepinephrine (6 micrograms/kg/min). This treatment raised their blood pressure to a level appropriate for the determination of dose-hypotensive response curves.

[Complicated colonic diverticulosis. Changes in treatment and results over 22 years].

Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyse the clinical course, surgical strategy and results in patients with complicated colonic diverticular disease.

Methods: We retrospectively compared two groups of patients who underwent surgery for complicated colonic diverticulosis from 1970 to 1984 (Group A, n = 94, mean age 60 years, 49 males, 45 females) and from 1985 to 1992 (Group B, n = 76, mean age 63.5, 32 males, 44 females).

[Cancer of the rectum: clinical and therapeutic aspects. What changes occurred during the last 2 decades?].

This retrospective study of 440 cases of cancer of rectum was done over a period of 2 decades (1970-1993) which was divided in 3 periods (1970-79, 1980-89, 1990-93) and a comparative analysis was done with respect to clinical features, histo-pathology, treatment and results. At least one predisposing lesion (polyp, villous tumour) was noted in 26.7%, 41.

[Pancreaticojejunal anastomosis by intussusception of an isolated loop in pancreaticoduodenectomy].

The most frequent and severe complication of pancreaticoduodenectomy is pancreatic fistula due to dehiscence of the pancreas anastomosis. The technique that uses a separate Roux en Y loop for pancreas anastomosis, to reduce the fatal risks of pancreatic fistula, has been described for more than 50 years. With the development of pancreaticogastrostomy, it seems interesting to present a procedure using an isolated loop for the pancreas; this technique, derived from those previously described allows a good intussusception of the pancreatic stump into the intestinal loop.

Differential inhibition of the pressor effects of natural pro-endothelins by phosphoramidon in rats.

The vasopressor responses of three natural endothelins (ET-1, ET-2, ET-3) and their precursors, pro-ETs, were studied in a pithed rat preparation, which allows the profile and the potency of vasoconstrictor agents to be determined in the absence of central control of the cardiovascular system. ET-1 was found to be 4- and 8-fold more potent in raising blood pressure than ET-2 and ET-3, respectively. The immediate precursors of these isopeptides, h-pro-ET-1 (human), p-pro-ET-1 (porcine), pro-ET-2 and pro-ET-3, produced significantly smaller pressor responses than their respective ETs, when measured either as peaks or as areas under the time-effect curve.

[Laparoscopic treatment of gastroesophageal reflux. Cardiopexia with the round ligament versus Nissen's type fundoplication].

Thirty nine patients with a symptomatic gastrooesophageal reflux (RGO), resistant to or relapsing after medical treatment, were prospectively studied and operated on with a laparoscopic approach: 8 which a ligamentum teres cardiopexy, 31 with a 360 degrees fundoplicature. Both groups were comparable concerning clinical, endoscopic, mano- and pHmetric features (Anova test at 95% for all comparison in the study). There was no operative mortality.

[1000 cases of cholecystectomy: 500 by laparotomy versus 500 by laparoscopy].

The authors report 1,000 cases of cholecystectomy for cholelithiasis, excluding all cases with associated common bile duct surgery. The aim of the study was to compare two groups of cholecystectomies, one of 500 laparotomic procedures, evaluated retrospectively, and one of 500 laparoscopic ones, evaluated prospectively. Sex ratio was the same in both groups, and mean age was higher in the second group (54 vs 60) (p < 0.

[The musculocutaneous flap of the latissimus dorsi in the treatment of recurrences of breast cancer].

Breast cancers local recurrence treatment usually requires a large chirurgical resection. Latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap was used after mastectomy in 27 patients. This technique was performed in 14 patients who had a recurrence after exclusive radiotherapy treatment.