Alveolar hydatid disease of the liver: Brief review and spectrum of adjacent organ invasion

The purpose of this study is to show the spectrum of adjacent organ invasion and to make a brief review of hepatic alveolar hydatid disease (AHD), using CT and MR imaging. We retrospectively reviewed CT and MR images of three patients with various adjacent organ invasions surgically and histologically proven to be AHD. Local invasion to right kidney and adrenal, right hemidiaphragm and lung were detected in one patient, right adrenal in another patient and gall bladder, duodenum, gastric wall and pancreas invasion in the other. AHD may rarely extend to the gall bladder, stomach, duodenum, pancreas, right adrenal and kidney, diaphragm, pleura and lung. The extension of the disease outside the liver is usually encountered in patients with large, peripherally located masses in the advanced stage of the disease.     

Hemostatic activity and resorbability of carboxymethylcellulose

Translated from Khimiko-farmatsevticheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 47–51, August, 1990.     

Contractile function of the myocardium in patients with ischemic heart disease after aortocoronary bypass

Fifty patients with coronary heart disease underwent repeated coronary ventriculography in different periods after aortocoronary bypass. The myocardial contractility in the patients after direct myocardial revascularization was comparatively analyzed in relation to the function of imposed aortocoronary anastomoses. Myocardial segmental contractility considerably improved in 23 patients after aortocoronary bypass who had functioning shunts, the integral function being satisfactory within the whole follow-up, whereas left ventricular myocardial function progressively diminished in 27 patients with closed anastomoses. Progressive coronary bed atherosclerosis was found to have a noticeable effect on myocardial contractility.     

Deprivation of form vision suppresses diurnal cycling of retinal levels of leu-enkephalin

Deprivation of form vision by the fitting of translucent occluders suppressed the diurnal cycling of enkephalinergic amacrine cells (the ENSLI amacrine cells), in the chicken. Daily periods of normal vision or enforcing temporal contrast using strobe lighting appeared to restore normal functioning of the ENSLI cells. These results suggest that the ENSLI cells are involved in retinal circuits that assess the quality of the visual image and control eye growth.