Metastatic Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer Presenting Clinically with Esophageal Dysphagia by Lilit Karapetyan, Heather Laird-Fick, Reuben Cuison

“…Dysphagia in the setting of peritoneal carcinomatosis from metastatic ILBC is a rare finding. …”
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Calcific Uremic Arteriolopathy: A Case Series and Review from an Inner-City Tertiary University Center in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients on Renal Replacement Therapy by Mohamed Omer, Zeenat Yousuf Bhat, Nanette Fonte, Nashat Imran, James Sondheimer, Yahya Osman‐Malik

“…Twenty-one patients were on hemodialysis, two patients received renal transplants, and one patient was on peritoneal dialysis. Diabetes mellitus was the most prevalent cause of ESRD. …”
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The Predictive and Prognostic Factors in Patients with Gastric Cancer Accompanied by Gastric Outlet Obstruction by Hongliang Zu, Huiling Wang, Chunfeng Li, Wendian Zhu, Yingwei Xue

“…The patients with distal gastric cancer with GOO generally presented more aggressive pathologic features, a poorer nutritional status, more duodenal infiltration, and peritoneal dissemination than those with cancer without GOO. …”
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Safety assessment of preventive pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy in combined treatment of gastric cancer: preliminary results by N. Ya. Muratova, I.  V. Kolobaev, D.  D. Kudryavtsev, E. I. Smolenov, A. B. Ryabov, V. M. Khomyakov, L. O. Petrov, S. A. Ivanov, A. D. Kaprin

“…The study included 48 patients with morphologically confirmed resectable GC and cardio esophageal transition, having at least one criterion that is a predictor of the development of peritoneal carcinomatosis, e. g. tumor spread to the serous layer (≥ T4a), diffuse tumor type, affected regional lymph nodes, large tumor, young age (up to 45 years), subtotally and totally affected stomach. 36 out of those patients received treatment according to the protocol. …”
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Immunogenic properties of nickel-doped maghemite nanoparticles and the implication for cancer immunotherapy by Lenka Rajsiglova, Michal Babic, Katerina Krausova, Pavol Lukac, Katerina Kalkusova, Pavla Taborska, Ludek Sojka, Jirina Bartunkova, Dmitry Stakheev, Luca Vannucci, Daniel Smrz

“…The induced cancer cell death did not affect the phenotype and responsivity of the isolated mouse peritoneal macrophages, or ex vivo-generated mouse bone marrow-derived, or human monocyte-derived dendritic cells. …”
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Encefalopatía de Wernicke en paciente no alcohólica. A propósito de un caso by Viviana de la Concepción García Escudero, Lietter Aguilar Jure

“…Actualmente, existen muchas otras situaciones que favorecen esta afección: alimentación intravenosa prolongada, hiperémesis gravídica, anorexia nerviosa, enteritis regional, síndrome de malabsorción, hemodiálisis, diálisis peritoneal, cirugía abdominal y vómitos excesivos. Esta última causa fue precisamente la que llevó a la aparición de esta patología en una paciente de 31 años.Ella acude al Hospital Provincial de Cienfuegos con cuadro clínico de vómitos de más de un mes de duración, pérdida de peso y dolor abdominal, motivo por el cual fue intervenida quirúrgicamente donde se encontró plastrón yeyunal secundario a microperforación. …”
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Novel Intraoperative Near-Infrared Fluorescence Camera System for Optical Image-Guided Cancer Surgery by J. Sven D. Mieog, Alexander L. Vahrmeijer, Merlijn Hutteman, Joost R. van der Vorst, Maurits Drijfhout van Hooff, Jouke Dijkstra, Peter J.K. Kuppen, Rob Keijzer, Eric L. Kaijzel, Ivo Que, Cornelis J.H. van de Velde, Clemens W.G.M. Löwik

“…The background fluorescence of abdominal organs, in particular liver and kidney, was high, thereby limiting the ability to detect peritoneal metastases with cathepsin-sensing probes in these regions. …”
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Cystic Endometriosis in a Huge Degenerated Subserous Leiomyoma Mimicking Bilateral Multicystic Endometriomas in an Infertile Woman with Diminished Ovarian Reserve: A Rare Endometri... by Safak Hatirnaz, Sabri Colak, Abdulkadir Reis

“…Endometriosis is a troubling gynecologic condition occurring in 10% to 15% of women of reproductive age and is associated with fertility problems. As a peritoneal disease, the locations of endometriotic lesions are predominantly the ovaries (96.4%), followed by the soft tissue (2.8%), gastrointestinal tract (0.3%), and urinary tract (0.2%) and other rare locations. …”
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Indications for Laparotomy in Patients with Abdominal Penetrating Injuries Presenting with Ambiguous Computed Tomography Findings by Eun Ji Choi, Sanghee Choi, Byung Hee Kang

“…However, routine laparotomy in patients with peritoneal injuries could result in instances of negative laparotomy.…”
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Oral Tolerance: A New Tool for the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Inflammatory Disorders and Liver-Directed Gene Therapy by Yaron Ilan

“…Tolerance induction toward colitis-extracted proteins ameliorated colonic inflammation as shown by decreased diarrhea and reduction of colonic ulcerations, intestinal and peritoneal adhesions, wall thickness and edema. Histological parameters for colitis were markedly improved in tolerized animals. …”
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Modulation of Long Non-coding RNA FAS-AS1/FAS/Caspase3 Axis in Endometriosis: A Cross-sectional Study by Amir Hossein Shayanfard, Zivar Salehi, Farhad Mashayekhi, Ziba Zahiri

“…Materials and Methods: The relative expression of lncRNA FAS-AS1 and FAs gene was evaluated by the quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction in 60 ectopic endometrial samples from women with endometriosis in relation to 85 normal endometrial tissues from healthy women, whereas the protein level of sFAs in the peritoneal fluid samples and cleaved caspase-3 in ectopic and normal endometrial tissue samples were determined using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and western blot, respectively. …”
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Effect of 4DryField® PH, a Novel Adhesion Barrier, on Recurrence of Intestinal Adhesions after Extensive Visceral Adhesiolysis by Gerhard Blumhardt, Matthias Haas, Stefanie Polte

“…Five female patients (age 65–83 years) underwent extensive open adhesiolysis with application of 4DF gel for adhesion prevention, premixed extracorporeally with saline or Ringer’s solution (60–70 mL per 5 g 4DF) for homogeneous gel distribution on intestinal loops and in the peritoneal cavity. In addition, dry 4DF powder was dispersed on the greater omentum and subsequently transformed into a gel by dripping with saline or Ringer’s solution directly before abdominal closure. …”
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Vascular access on YouTube: Navigating the stream of information for hemodialysis patients by Alp Yildirim, Muhammed Sefa Saglam, Serkan Mola, Ali Baran Budak

“…Treatment options include renal transplant, peritoneal dialysis, and hemodialysis, with hemodialysis being the most common, necessitating suitable vascular access like arteriovenous fistula (AVF), graft, or catheter. …”
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Survival, Incidence, and Mortality Trends in Female Cancers in the Nordic Countries by Filip Tichanek, Asta Försti, Otto Hemminki, Akseli Hemminki, Kari Hemminki

“…The large survival improvement for ovarian cancer was probably achieved by a surgical focus on tumors spread in the peritoneal cavity. For cervical and vulvar cancers, the high early mortality requires attention and could be helped by raising increasing public awareness of early symptoms in these cancers and developing pathways for fast initiation of treatment.…”
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De Novo Onset of Myasthenia Gravis after Kidney Transplantation by Aaron de Souza, Rajesh Raj

“…A 57-year-old female on treatment with peritoneal dialysis following polycystic kidney disease received a renal transplant with standard basiliximab induction. …”
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Perioperative complications of the modified Stoppa approach for the treatment of pelvic bone fractures: a single-institution review of 48 cases by Hyeonjoon Lee, Suenghwan Jo, Gwangchul Lee, Yongjin Cho

“…Additionally, one case of peritoneal tearing occurred, which required help from an abdominal surgeon. …”
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The Assessment of CDX1, IHH, SHH, GATA4, FOXA2, FOXF1 in Congenital Intra-Abdominal Adhesions by Helēna Freijere Pope, Māra Pilmane, Anna Junga, Aigars Pētersons

“…Significant correlations were observed between the expression of CDX1 (p <.001) and SHH (p=0.032) genes in fibroblasts from congenital intra-abdominal adhesions compared to fibroblasts from control peritoneal tissue. Statistically significant very strong correlations were found between the CDX1 and IHH comparing endothelium and fibroblast cells in congenital abdominal adhesion bands. …”
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Posttranscriptional Suppression of Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated Inflammatory Responses by Macrophages in Middle-Aged Mice: A Possible Role for Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 2α by Ken Shirato, Kazuhiko Imaizumi

“…Given that a reduced rate of protein synthesis is a common age-related biochemical change, which is partially mediated by increased phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor-2α (eIF-2α), we investigated the mechanism responsible for the deterioration of macrophage inflammatory responses, focusing specifically on the age-related biochemical changes in middle-aged mice. Peritoneal macrophages isolated from 2-month-old (young) and 12-month-old (middle-aged) male BALB/c mice were stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS). …”
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Paraoxonase 2 Induces a Phenotypic Switch in Macrophage Polarization Favoring an M2 Anti-Inflammatory State by Marie Koren-Gluzer, Mira Rosenblat, Tony Hayek

“…Ex vivo studies were performed with murine peritoneal macrophages (MPM) harvested from control C57BL/6 and PON2-deficient (PON2KO) mice. …”
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Levamisole, as a viral vaccine adjuvant, induces robust host defense through the modulation of innate and adaptive immune responses by Gang Sik Kim, Dong Yun Kwak, Hyeong Won Kim, Seokwon Shin, Mi-Kyeong Ko, Seong Yun Hwang, So Hui Park, Dong Hyeon Kim, Jong-Hyeon Park, Su-Mi Kim, Min Ja Lee

“…We conducted in vitro studies using murine peritoneal exudate cells (PECs) and porcine peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and in vivo studies using mice (experimental animals) and pigs (target animals). …”
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