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This study demonstrates that heparin protects against septic mortality independent of its anticoagulant effect. This protective effect is associated with the inhibition of apoE-LDLR binding, diminished NKT proliferation and cytokine production, and hepatic dysfunction. These findings indicate a pote...
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PMID: 21741028
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-Local intramyocardial BNP gene delivery improves cardiac function and attenuates adverse post-infarction and angiotensin II-induced remodeling. These results also indicate that myocardial BNP has pleiotropic, context-dependent favourable actions on cardiac function, and suggest that BNP acts locall...
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PMID: 21558448
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The effect of the type of surgery on neovascularisation in the groin is unknown. The aim of the present study was to compare three different surgical techniques used for recurrent saphenofemoral incompetence in view of their effect on neovascularisation in the groin at short- and long-term follow-up...
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PMID: 21780053
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Our study reported positive clinical outcomes using the technique of sub-inguinal surgical ligature of varicocele without using microsurgical techniques or instruments of optical magnification. The operative time, complication and relapse rates, Doppler flow parameters and semen parameters were not...
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PMID: 21826877
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We have shown that TGF-β suppression in cardiomyocytes was required to protect against maladaptive remodeling and involved noncanonical (non-Smad-related) signaling. Mouse hearts subjected to pressure overload and treated with a TGF-β-neutralizing Ab had suppressed Smad activation in the interstit...
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PMID: 21537080
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To investigate the outcomes, as well as risk factors for 6-wk mortality, in patients with early rebleeding after endoscopic variceal band ligation (EVL) for esophageal variceal hemorrhage (EVH).
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PMID: 21547132
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We described a case of severe oesophageal variceal bleeding in a young woman without having any pre-existing liver pathology. Due to repeated pregnancy with short intervel bleeding the patient developed severe anaemia. Packed cell transfusion was done repeatedly and oesophageal variceal ligation (EV...
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PMID: 21522110
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Individualized tactics of radical surgical treatment, applied in 100 patients, suffering an acute paraproctitis, was presented. Performing comparative estimation of the treatment results in 110 patients, in whom the conventional surgical approaches were applied, there was established, that an active...
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PMID: 21698928
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We retrospectively analyzed surgical results without preoperative angiography.
Forty-nine patients with shotgun wounds who underwent vascular reconstruction in the extremities from 1999 to 2004 were retrospectively reviewed.
Vascular reconstruction of the extremities...
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PMID: 21644094
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We investigated the antithrombotic effects of proanthocyanidins in a rat model of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and examined the underlying mechanisms.
DVT was induced in rat model by inferior vena cava (IVC) ligation. Grape seed proanthocyanidins extract (GSPE, 400 mg/kg/d) dissolved i...
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PMID: 21095090
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We can conclude that decrease in the antioxidative status and mitochondrial dysfunction could at least in part participate on the deteriorating effect of fluvastatin. Whether these processes can be a consequence of the alteration in metabolism and transport of potentially toxic substances remains to...
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PMID: 21460414
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We report a possible treatment strategy for a patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the penis in hemorrhagic shock, due to erosion of the right femoral artery by metastatic inguinal lymph nodes. Because of coexistent groin infection and the inability to perform radical excision, the patient was tr...
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PMID: 21317154
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of endoscopic ligation of the sphenopalatine artery in the treatment of severe posterior epistaxis.
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PMID: 21277555
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Non-coronary collateral blood flow arrives to the heart from mediastinal, bronchial, and pericardial channels. These enter the heart through the pericardial reflections surrounding the pulmonary and systemic veins, as well as from the vasa vasorum of the aorta and the pulmonary artery leading to and...
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PMID: 21224821
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We first assessed the effect of CD40 deficiency on neointima formation in 2 injury models, carotid artery ligation and femoral artery denudation injury. Compared with wild-type mice, CD40 deficiency significantly reduced neointima formation and lumen stenosis in two different models. Further, we inv...
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PMID: 21876738
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We present a case who had undergone tonsillectomy with bipolar diathermy in an another hospital and who was referred to our clinic following a massive hemorrhage from the tonsil bed on the 27th postoperative day. Upon determining that the bleeding was caused by the necrosis of the internal carotid a...
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PMID: 21417974
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We tested the hypothesis that stable and vulnerable human plaques differentially express genes associated with matrix degradation. Examination established that femoral, and the distal region of carotid, plaques were histologically stable while the proximal carotid plaque regions were vulnerable. Qua...
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PMID: 21814555
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We present 3 cases of patients with different types of haemorrhoidal disease. The first patient is a 27-year-old woman who had been experiencing incidental rectal blood loss without pain during defecation for 3 months. The second patient is a 76-year-old woman who had been bothered by varying degree...
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PMID: 21914230
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The data suggest that early sympathetic sprouting into the sensory ganglia may have highly localized, excitatory effects. Quantitatively, neurons with sympathetic basket formations may account for more than half of the observed spontaneous activity, despite being relatively rare. Spontaneous activit...
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PMID: 21794129
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To investigate the effect of intra-operative intravenous fluids on post-operative hemodynamic stability.
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PMID: 21251376
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Cardiac myxomas are highly vascular tumors and there is no consensus on the use of coronary angiography to assess their vascularity. A 64-year-old male patient presented with complaints of exertional dyspnea, fatigue, arthralgia, weight loss, intermittent high fever, and palpitation. He had an 18-mon...
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PMID: 21430425
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To investigate the condition of esophageal mucosa (EM) before and after surgical and endoscopic treatment of varicose esophageal veins (VEV).
EM was examined in 100 patients (64 males and 36 females aged 33-74 years, mean age 528 +/- 5.7 years) with hepatic cirrhosis...
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PMID: 21516841
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Mortality in sepsis remains high and efforts to modulate the inflammatory response so far mostly failed to improve survival. The human chorionic gonadotropin-related tetrapeptide LQGV was recently shown to exert anti-inflammatory activity. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of LQGV on ce...
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PMID: 20890188
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We treated a 45 years old patient, suffering from diabetes mellitus since childhood, with retinal, neurovascular and kidney complications. In 1988, for erectile dysfunction (ED) resistant to medical injective treatment, the patient underwent ligation of the dorsal vein of the penis without any result...
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PMID: 21452156
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Nitric oxide has been pointed out as the main agent involved in the vasodilatation, which is the major symptom of septic shock. However, there must be another mediator contributing to the circulatory failure observed in sepsis. This study aimed to investigate the endothelium-dependen...
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PMID: 21167958
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We present a rapid two-stage Starnes procedure for a seriously symptomatic neonate with the prenatal diagnosis of Ebstein anomaly. At 16 hours after birth, we performed an emergency operation consisting of main pulmonary artery ligation, plication of the right atrial and right ventricular wall, modi...
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PMID: 21095378
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We present our study using emergent bilateral ligation of the internal iliac arteries (BLIA) and pelvic packing as a damage control adjunct.
We reviewed our experience during 22 months (May 2006 to March 2008) with damage control management of massive retroperitoneal hemorrhage caused by blunt pelvi...
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PMID: 20495490
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Comparison of sapheno-femoral ligation and stripping (SFL/S) versus endovenous laser ablation (EVLA, 980-nm) in the treatment of great saphenous vein (GSV) insufficiency, using local tumescent anaesthesia.
Randomised, single centre trial.
Patients with GSV incompetence and varicose veins were random...
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PMID: 20888274
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Our recent study has shown that it may inhibit cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in the spinal dorsal horn where COX-2 is upregulated after the development of neuropathic pain following spinal nerve ligation (SNL). The current study directly compared the effect of acupuncture with COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib i...
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PMID: 20654703
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The effects and mechanism of the extract of Radix Scrophulariae (ERS), a traditional Chinese herb, on experimental ventricular remodeling in rats was studied. Rats were separated randomly into 5 groups: sham, model, captopril (40 mg x kg(-1)) and ERS (8, 16 g x kg(-1)). The experimental ventricular...
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PMID: 21105581
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We acutely injected intrathecal ondansetron in rats between 14 and 30 days after SNL and assessed effects on thermal and mechanical hypersensitivity. We also determined the density of serotonergic nerve fibers, serotonin content and the levels of 5-HT3 receptors within the spinal cord at this time p...
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PMID: 20637741
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We hypothesized that interrupting the connection between superficial and deep veins of the upper extremity at the elbow for creation of hemodialysis arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs), in addition to adequate dilation of the elbow veins, will reduce the risk of steal syndrome and venous hypertension. In...
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PMID: 20814120
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We aimed to test the effects of a long-acting somatostatin analogue, lanreotide, on bile duct ligation-induced liver fibrosis in rats.
Thirty-seven Wistar rats were divided into 5 groups as follows: Group 1, bile duct ligation+lanreotide; Group 2, bile duct ligation; Group 3, sham+lanreotide; Group...
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PMID: 20931434
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We also saw thinning of bowel wall, dilatating bowel with fluid, aggravating mesenteric edema and ascites, and poor enhanced bowel over time.
MDCT detects early changes of mesenteric ischemia and its evolution after ligation of porcine SMV, and may find application in early diagnosis of human venous...
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PMID: 20646939
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We suggest that anastomosis is always preferable to ligation, even in emergencies. Anastomosis enables overall limb function to be better preserved (both in the vicinity of the lesion and distally).
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PMID: 20517821
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To evaluate the incidence of hydrocele following laparoscopic Palomo varicocele ligation in pediatric and adolescents in our institution.
Between 1997 and 2009, 180 boys diagnosed as having varicocele who underwent Palomo laparoscopic ligation were evaluated retrospectively. Outcome variables record...
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PMID: 20876949
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Abstract Objective. To compare the efficacy, feasibility and morbidity of two preparation techniques for conservative uterine myoma surgery: temporary embolization and temporary surgical ligature of the uterine arteries. Design. Retrospective study. Setting. Gynecological Surgery and...
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PMID: 20726700
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The combination of endoscopic band ligation (EBL) with either endoscopic injection sclerotherapy (EIS) or thermal therapy has been shown to reduce recurrence of esophageal varices compared to EBL alone. The aim of this prospective trial was twofold: 1) to evaluate the safety and effi...
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PMID: 19802519
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Jae-Yen Song,
Seong-Jin Hwang,
Min-Joung Kim,
Hyun-Hee Jo,
Sue-Yeon Kim,
Kwang-Eun Choi,
Dong-Jin Kwon,
Young-Ok Lew,
Jang-Heub Kim,
Yong-Taik Lim,
Jin-Hong Kim,
Eun-Jung Kim and
Mee-Ran Kim
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We would like to compare the clinical characteristics and effectiveness of selective uterine artery double ligation and bipolar uterine artery coagulation in total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) retrospectively. TLH was performed on 72 patients with selective uterine artery double ligation and on 3...
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PMID: 20642388
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Partial hepatectomy in mice is a basic model for hepatic research work. Different complications, especially bleeding, bile leakage, and vena cava stenosis, have been observed with the classical technique, which features ligature en-bloc at the base of the hepatic lobes. In order to reduce complicati...
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PMID: 20690848
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We have previously shown that the tumor necrosis factor receptor 2 (TNFR2) protein is highly upregulated in vascular endothelium in response to ischemia, and a global deletion of TNFR2 in mice blunts ischemia-induced arteriogenesis and angiogenesis. However, the role of endothelial TNFR2 is not defi...
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PMID: 20395596
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We determined the pressor and cardioaccelerator reflex responses to static contraction of hindlimb muscles whose femoral arteries were either occluded 72 h before contraction, occluded 3 min before contraction, or freely perfused. We found that the pressor reflex arising from the limb whose femoral...
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PMID: 20418475
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We investigated whether genetic or pharmacologic blockade of central melanocortin signaling attenuates cardiac cachexia in mice and rats with heart failure. Permanent ligation of the left coronary artery (myocardial infarction (MI)) or sham operation was performed in wild-type (WT) or melanocortin-4...
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PMID: 20371568
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We report that caveolin-1, a major component of caveolae, is a critical survival factor of sepsis. We induced sepsis using a well established sepsis animal model, cecal ligation and puncture (CLP). CLP induced 67% fatality in caveolin-1 null mice, but only 27% fatality in wild type littermates (p =...
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PMID: 20534584
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Vascular anatomy of the liver is varied, and the "standard" anatomy is seen in 55%-80% of cases. It is very important that extrahepatic arteries are identified precisely at the time of graft procurement to avoid injuries that might compromise the liver function. In the present case the liver donor h...
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PMID: 20525561
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The aim of this study was to examine the effects of eplerenone on hepatic fibrosis induced by bile duct ligation (BDL) in rat. Low- (1.0 mg/kg body weight, BW) and high- (4.0 mg/kg BW) dose eplerenone was administered orally for 21 days immediately following BDL. Fibrosis was assessed by measuring t...
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PMID: 20428791
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In the months following the operation, the incidence of the late onset of a pulmonary fistula was higher when the harmonic scalpel was used. It was believed that the small bronchial stump could not tolerate the airway pressure because the thick coagulation necrosis delayed healing of the postoperati...
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PMID: 20190705
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