Following the route of veterinary antibiotics tiamulin and tilmicosin from livestock farms to agricultural soils.

Veterinary antibiotics (VAs) are not completely metabolized in the animal body. Hence, when animal excretes are used as soil manures, VA residues are dispersed with potential implications for environmental quality and human health. We studied the persistence of tiamulin (TIA) and tilmicosin (TLM) along their route from pig administration to fecal excretion and to agricultural soils.

Toward High-Throughput Fungal Electroculturomics and New Omics Methodologies in 21st-Century Microbiology and Ecology.

Modern microbiology and drug development are in a watershed moment with the advent of electroceuticals. In addition to genomics, electrical impulses in an organism are believed to contribute to tissue and cellular plasticity. Hence, electroceuticals or bioelectronics offers the promise to identify innovative approaches to treat human diseases.

Laparoscopic modified taylor procedure in the treatment of duodenal ulcer: technique and outcome after 5-year follow-up.

Background: Recently, gastric stapling with posterior truncal vagotomy has been performed by laparoscopic surgery, as an alternative to highly selective vagotomy (HSV) and the Taylor procedure for the treatment of chronic duodenal ulcer.

Aim: To investigate, after a mean 5-year follow-up, the effect of the stapling-modified laparoscopic Taylor procedure, on gastric secretion, emptying and reflux as well as clinical parameters and recurrence rates in patients treated for duodenal ulcer.

Methods: 16 patients, aged 38-66 years, were treated from January 1993 to January 1996 (median 60.

Erythromycin enhances solid-phase gastric emptying in induced-hyperglycemia in patients with truncal vagotomy and pyloroplasty.

Erythromycin has been found to be a gastrointestinal prokinetic agent while acute hyperglycemia has been associated with delayed gastric emptying in healthy controls and diabetics. The aim of this study was to investigate whether hyperglycemia, per se, alters gastric motility, during erythromycin-induced acceleration of gastric emptying of solids in patients with truncal vagotomy and pyloroplasty (TVP) and the role of vagus nerves. Eight TVP patients and six controls underwent scintigraphic measurement of gastric emptying of a solid meal, during placebo in normoglycemia (5-8.

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in the diagnosis of lung disease. The Cretan experience.

Background: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has been recently utilised in the diagnosis and management of thoracic diseases. In this report we reviewed our VATS experience for biopsy of diffuse or localised lung diseases in 51 cases focusing on indications, operative procedures, complications or failures rates.

Patients And Methods: Over the last 5 years we performed 51 VATS procedures for diagnostic purposes in 32 men and 19 women.

Induced-hyperglycemia attenuates erythromycin-induced acceleration of hypertonic liquid-phase gastric emptying in type-I diabetic patients.

Background: Erythromycin has been found to be a gastrointestinal prokinetic agent of hypertonic liquids, while acute hyperglycemia has been associated with delayed gastric emptying in diabetic patients.

Aim: To investigate whether hyperglycemia, per se, reduces gastric motility during erythromycin-induced acceleration on gastric emptying of hypertonic liquids in diabetic patients.

Methods: In 12 type-I diabetic patients following a hypertonic radiolabeled liquid meal, gastric emptying was measured scintigraphically during normoglycemia (5-8.

A simple technique for trocar site closure after laparoscopic surgery.

Hernias have been reported to occur at trocar sites and small anterior wall defect has been casually identified during laparoscopic surgery. The aim of this article is to describe a simple, fast, and cheap technique for the safe closure of trocar sites in laparoscopic surgery. Closure is accomplished with a #0# absorbable suture, which is applied in a pursestring manner using 15 gauge spinal cord needle.

Hyperglycaemia attenuates erythromycin-induced acceleration of solid-phase gastric emptying in idiopathic and diabetic gastroparesis.

Background: Erythromycin has recently been found to be a gastrointestinal prokinetic agent in humans. Acute hyperglycaemia has been associated with delayed gastric emptying in both healthy controls and diabetic patients. Our aim was to investigate in gastroparetic patients (diabetics and idiopathics) whether hyperglycaemia, per se, reduces gastric motility during erythromycin-induced acceleration of gastric emptying of solids.

Anterior lesser curve seromyotomy using a stapling device and posterior truncal vagotomy for the treatment of chronic duodenal ulcer: longterm results.

Background: Recently, gastric stapling with posterior truncal vagotomy has been performed, either by conventional or laparoscopic surgery, as an alternative to highly selective vagotomy and the Taylor procedure for the treatment of chronic duodenal ulcer. Our aim was to investigate the longterm effects after a stapling-modified Taylor procedure, conventional and laparoscopic, on gastric secretion and emptying and on clinical indices and recurrence rates in patients treated for duodenal ulcer before 1994.

Study Design: Thirty-one patients, aged 40 to 76 years (mean 53 years), were treated between 1986 and 1993, 21 by conventional and 10 by a laparoscopic stapling-modified Taylor procedure.

Ulcerative colitis is as common in Crete as in northern Europe: a 5-year prospective study.

Objective: To study the incidence of ulcerative colitis and to analyse the pattern of the disease in the prefecture of Heraklion, Crete.

Participants: The population at risk comprised 263,670 inhabitants in the prefecture of Heraklion (2641 km2). The two regional hospitals, five health centres, 109 private family doctors and 145 specialists participated in the study.

Effect of nifedipine on rectoanal motility.

Purpose: Based on the rationale that the calcium channel blocker, nifedipine, decreases lower esophageal sphincter pressure in achalasia, a prospective controlled trial was performed to evaluate the effect of sublingual nifedipine on the anal sphincter of controls and patients with high anal resting pressures.

Methods: Ten age-matched and sex-matched controls without evidence of anal disorder and ten patients with hemorrhoids and/or fissure-in-ano were included in the study. Anorectal manometry, with an eight-channel, water-perfused catheter was performed on all patients before and 30 minutes after administration of 20 mg of sublingual nifedipine.

Limb arterial injuries associated with limb fractures: clinical presentation, assessment and management.

Objectives: Review of limb arterial injuries associated with limb fractures.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: University Hospital.