Transurachal Catheter for Management of Difficult Catheterization in Anorectal Malformations: A Novel Technique.

Background: Urinary tract drainage is necessary to facilitate the maneuver in laparoscopic-assisted anorectoplasty (LAARP). Male patients with Anorectal malformations (ARM) are often encounter difficult catheterization during surgery.

Objective: We pioneered the urinary catheterization through the urachus in ARM patients and evaluated the efficacy.

Treatment of uterine scar cystoid diverticulum by hysteroscopy combined with laparoscopy.

Objective: To report a patient with prolonged intermenstrual bleeding and a cystic mass at a cesarean scar treated with laparoscopic folding sutures and hysteroscopic canalization.

Design: A 4.0 cm-cystic mass formed at the uterine scar caused continuous menstrual blood outflow in the diverticulum and was treated with hysteroscopy combined with laparoscopy.

Comparison of conventional laparoscopy and robotic radical hysterectomy for early-stage cervical cancer: A meta-analysis.

Background: Cervical cancer continues to be a global burden for women, with >500,000 cases and 275,000 deaths reported annually. Resources-rich countries have seen a dramatic reduction in the prevalence of invasive cervical cancer due to widely accessed radical hysterectomy (RH). We aimed to compare initial surgical outcomes and complication rates of conventional laparoscopic RH (LRH) and robotic RH (RRH) for treating cervical cancer through a systematic meta-analysis.

Impact of antimouse CD52 monoclonal antibody on graft's γδ intraepithelial lymphocytes after orthotopic small bowel transplantation in mice.

Alemtuzumab, a humanized CD52 monoclonal antibody (mAb), has been used for immune induction in clinical small bowel transplantation (SBT). However, the local impact of CD52 mAb on the transplanted intestine is not known. In this study, we investigated the effects of CD52 mAb on the intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes (iIELs) in grafts using a murine orthotopic SBT model.

Berberine ameliorates pro-inflammatory cytokine-induced endoplasmic reticulum stress in human intestinal epithelial cells in vitro.

Endoplasmic reticulum stress (ER stress) in intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) plays an important role in the pathogenesis and perpetuation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of this study is to explore the potential of berberine (BBR) in regulating pro-inflammatory cytokine-induced ER stress and apoptosis in IECs. ER stress in cultured Caco-2 cells was induced by IFN-γ/TNF-α and tunicamycin, respectively.