What's the difference between achylous and chylous?
Achylous
Definition:
(a.) Without chyle.
Example Sentences:
(1) In regular treatment of concomitant achylic gastritis, the activity of gastric juice normalized in 11 (17.4%) patients, the incidence of detection of alkaline phosphatase in it reduced 6-fold, thermostable fraction--27-fold, no polyp recurrences were revealed.
(2) It was found that most patients showed asthenic, dyspeptic and pam syndromes, anemia, hypoacidic or achylous gastritis, inflammation at the operative site.
Chylous
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four of the mutants had no effect on chylous ascites, but two mutants linked with ragged, and one unlinked, showed a complex situation involving enhancement, inhibition, epistacy and other interactions.
(2) Chylous ascites is a disorder visible as a white fluid in the peritoneal cavity of suckling mice.
(3) Initial conservative management consisted of intermittent positive pressure ventilation, drainage of chylous fluid and enteral feeding, but there was no diminution in loss of chyle.
(4) A case of chylous ascites that presented with the signs and symptoms of peritonitis is reviewed.
(5) A general review of the acute chylous ascites syndrome showed the prognosis to be generally favorable, with a mortality of 4%, in contrast to the 40% mortality reported for the chronic chylous ascites of adults.
(6) Hepatocellular carcinoma was associated in 2 cases and, in 5 cases, chylous ascites followed surgery (portosystemic shunt in 4 cases).
(7) The disease occurs only in women, during or after their reproductive phase, with chylous effusion, especially chylothorax, dyspnoea and chronic progression.
(8) Surgery for aneurysms causes 81% of all chylous ascites caused by injuries to the intestinal lymphatics or to their recipients, the left latero-aortic lymph nodes or the cisterna chyli.
(9) The results of surgical treatment of four children with chylous ascites unresponsive to medical management are presented.
(10) Chylous ascites persisted for over 3 months, with an average daily external drainage of 1.5 liters, and was successfully treated with a peritoneovenous shunt.
(11) The diagnosis of chylous ascites was confirmed by the presence of microscopically visible free fat and the biochemical analysis of the fluid.
(12) The major lymphatic ducts are also involved, resulting in chylous pleural effusion and ascites.
(13) Postoperative chylous ascites is a rare complication of aortic surgery.
(14) Since the management of pancreatic ascites differs from that of cirrhotic or chylous ascites, it is recommended that this diagnosis be considered whenever a patient develops severe ascites after a distal spenorenal shunt.
(15) A 47-year-old patient presented with a chylous knee effusion and traumatic infected skin lacerations.
(16) Acute chylous ascites is of idiopathic origin in 50 per cent of cases, the remainder being accounted for by trauma and intestinal obstruction.
(17) Today there are still difficulties by differentiating of chylous pleural effusions.
(18) Two cases of severely Rh isoimmunized fetuses with hydrops and one fetus with hydrops secondary to chylous ascites are presented to show the ultrasonic features of diagnosis of fetal edema and ascities.
(19) A chylous fistula developed in a 53-year old man after his left shoulder girdle had been amputated because of a recurrent low grade chondrosarcoma.
(20) We seek to establish normative values for the volume of postoperative neck drainage from patients undergoing ablative oncologic procedures that include a neck dissection and to analyze neck drainage for lipid content to establish guidelines that may be helpful in identifying chylous fistula when this diagnosis is not clinically straightforward.