(a.) Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
(2) These multiple removals raise also many questions to the anatomist, the most interesting concerning: the multiple hepatic arteries; the connections between celiac branches of the abdominal aorta.
(3) Increased or diminished reactivity of the celiac plexus is registered in patients with duodenal ulcers, depending on the presence of complications.
(4) The authors emphasize a regional approach for the diagnosis of lymphadenopathy, according to the groupings of retrocrural, retroperitoneal, gastrohepatic ligament, porta hepatis, celiac and superior mesenteric artery, pancreaticoduodenal, perisplenic, mesenteric, and pelvic lymph nodes.
(5) The gastrointestinal territories innervated by the gastric, celiac, and hepatic abdominal vagi were identified in rats with selective branch vagotomies by means of 1) anterograde tracing with the carbocyanine dye DiI injected into the dorsal motor nucleus and 2) measurement of cervical vagal stimulation-induced motility responses throughout the gut axis.
(6) Etiological factors of disease of the celiac axis, superior mesenteric artery and inferior mesenteric artery occlusion were the intravascular factors in 99 patients, atherosclerosis in 63 and nonspecific aorto-arteritis in 36.
(7) To elucidate the mechanism of migration of vascular smooth-muscle cells (SMCs) from media to intima, we have investigated the phenotypic modulation of the medial SMC at bifurcation of the celiac artery in 5 children and 3 young persons using a transmission electron microscope.
(8) Mucosal hyperemia due to acid backdiffusion was not changed by acute bilateral subdiaphragmatic vagotomy but was blocked by acute removal of the celiac-superior mesenteric ganglion complex or acute bilateral transection of the greater splanchnic nerves.
(9) Finally, we tested rats with gastric cannulas after gastric plus celiac vagotomy.
(10) This report describes a unique case of biliary and portal obstruction by a massive celiac artery aneurysm.
(11) Antigliadin antibodies have been widely used in the screening of celiac disease.
(12) The loss of duodenal folds visible endoscopically has recently been reported as being a marker for celiac disease.
(13) Malignancy has developed in 10 of 93 patients with celiac disease who attended this hospital from 1959 to 1978.
(14) IL-2R plasma titers can be raised in celiac patients by administering wheat.
(15) Selective angiography demonstrated extensive collateral vessel formation arising from the superior mesenteric artery, the celiac axis, or both.
(16) Definition of the wheat gliadin fractions and specific gliadin peptides that can activate celiac disease remains an open question.
(17) After a few weeks of collected data in stimulated controls, the dogs were divided into two groups: (A) Four dogs underwent proximal truncal vagotomy, celiac ganglionectomy, and stripping of the common hepatic and gastroduodenal arteries for 2-3 cm.
(18) Lack of efficiency could be due to incomplete denervation of the plexus; however, a method for measuring the completeness of celiac plexus blockade is not yet available.
(19) Malignant disease developed in some celiacs with normal splenic size and function.
(20) Selection criteria included a liver volume of between 1,000 and 2,500 ml, portal perfusion of between 15-30%, no active liver disease and no stenosis of hepatic artery or celiac axis, as well as a good functional Child-Pugh classification (A-B).
Coeliac
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Celiac
Example Sentences:
(1) No age differences were observed in DBH activity of any tissues examined or in the activities of any enzymes in the coeliac-mesenteric ganglion complex.
(2) This preliminary study shows an adrenergic control system composed of chromaffin cells and adrenergic nerves similar to that found in other teleosts investigated, although the systemic arteries (coeliac artery, dorsal aorta and the vasculature of the air-breathing organ) appear to lack an adrenergic innervation.
(3) A 17-year-old boy who had been treated for insulin-dependent diabetes since age 2, and for coeliac disease since age 6, presented a major growth retardation (-6 SD), a delayed puberty and a hepatomegaly with excessive glycogen storage (Mauriac's syndrome).
(4) Four patients with coeliac disease, who had shown complete mucosal recovery after prolonged treatment with a strict gluten-free diet, volunteered to consume oats in addition to their gluten-free diet for a period of one month and were studied by jejunal biopsy before and after the experimental period.
(5) Serum levels of dialysed triiodothyronine and thyroxine and of triiodothyronine are significantly lower in coeliac patients than in normal infants (P less than 0.01).
(6) Literature studies and the results of the present study indicate that CT-guided or ultrasound-guided techniques should be preferred in coeliac plexus block whenever the facilities are available.
(7) It has been shown that GGT activity in the duodenal biopsy homogenates of the children with coeliac disease (n-10) in remission (1 to 3 years of gluten-free diet) is lower than in those with other gastrointestinal tract diseases (n-6).
(8) This study finally confirms that it is impossible to use organotypic cultures as an in vitro test for the diagnosis of coeliac disease.
(9) Coeliac disease is a primary malabsorption syndrome, whose gastrointestinal symptomatology regresses following a gluten-free diet.
(10) In this patient, azathioprine induced and sustained a remission when unacceptably high doses of prednisone had failed, and may prove to be a valuable immunosuppressive in non-responsive coeliac disease.
(11) Histological examination of biopsy specimens revealed jejunal mucosal villous atrophy compatible with coeliac disease in 13 of 122 relatives.
(12) In remission he developed coeliac disease, controlled by dietary measures, but 26 months after the end of chemotherapy a severe dyspeptic syndrome appeared; endoscopy and barium meal suggested the presence of a gastric tumour, which was surgically removed and showed the histological features of a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, lympho-histiocytic type.
(13) Stenosis and occlusion of the coeliac trunk and the superior mesenteric artery can be detected.
(14) Both patients were cured by surgical decompression of the coeliac trunk.
(15) Subclinical coeliac disease appears to be unusually over-represented among patients with idiopathic osteoporosis, and screening for gliadin antibodies might therefore be a valuable addition to the routine assessment of the osteopenic patient.
(16) Though the levels in Crohn's disease were significantly higher than those in ulcerative colitis and in coeliac disease, there was marked overlap between the disorders and control subjects, and so they were of no value in differential diagnosis.
(17) The authors believe that coeliac disease, as defined at present, is a heterogeneous condition.
(18) The splanchnic fibers originate from the single coeliac ganglion, situated near the third spinal nerve on the right side, and pass caudally to the islet.
(19) In untreated coeliac patients the distribution of the various cell types was essentially unchanged, although the number of these cells was markedly increased, including those which expressed the Ta1 antigen.
(20) 5- and 24-hour urinary excretion rates of xylose were of no value in discriminating between patients with and without coeliac disease; similarly, the 3-hour blood xylose concentration was nondiscriminatory.