(n.) A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.
Example Sentences:
(1) After accidental dissection of the thoracic duct in infants, leakage of chyle could be sealed successfully in 6 cases.
(2) 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.
(3) From the clinical course it may be assumed that the chyle drainage was impaired in the thoracic duct or in a minor lymphatic vessel by subclinical injury, whereby the damage obviously was small, capable of spontaneous closure and healing.
(4) Despite the chronic loss of chyle in the urine these 3 patients did not have significant complications during the period of observation.
(5) Several therapeutic pathways are possible for the treatment of this complication (paracentesis, reinfusion of chyle, diuretics, total parenteral hyperalimentation, medium-chain triglyceride diet, peritoneovenous shunt, operative closure) and the choice results in an association which is specific for each patient.
(6) While technically challenging, the vein conduit worked well in delivering chyle to the oral cavity.
(7) It was found that lymphocytes cultured in the medium containing chyle were remarkably suppressed in responding to phytohemagglutinin as compared with the control culture without the fluid.
(8) Nineteen liters of chyle were excreted over a 5-week period.
(9) All of these patients' cases were associated with a concurrent external chylous fistula, as evidenced by the appearance of a milky fluid confirmed to be chyle by chemical determination.
(10) Of particular interest was the detection of an appreciable amount of medium-chain fatty acids in the chyle triglyceride, constituting 20% of the triglyceride fatty acids when an enteral formulation with medium-chain triglyceride as a sole fat source was administered.
(11) Neutral lipase failed to exhibit activity in assay systems specific for lipoprotein lipase, monoolein hydrolase, tributyrinase, and methyl butyrate esterase and showed little or no capacity to hydrolyze chyle chylomicrons or plasma very low density lipoproteins.
(12) Mesenteric portal venous blood and chyle, respectively, were collected continuously for 1 and 6 h after the infusions.
(13) During the following MCT diet a pronounced increase in triglyceride and total fatty acids concentrations appeared and the chylomicrons reappeared in the chyle.
(14) The small pedicle entered the upper pole of cyst was found at surgery and the cyst contained chyle about 300 ml.
(15) This caused lymph protein concentration to increase while chyle concentration (measured by absorbance) decreased.
(16) After excision of the cyst, the chyle was analyzed with special reference to its protein and lipid content.
(17) If significant chyle losses persist after 2 weeks, surgery is indicated, as immunological factors may complicate recovery.
(18) The metabolism of native chyle labeled with [3H]cholesterol and [14C]linoleic acid or of preformed chylomicron remnants with the same labeling was studied in the groups of rats.
(19) Our investigations have established that the following diseases are produced by malformation of the lymphatics of the small intestine: protein losing enteropathy, chyloperitoneum, chyluria, lymphedema with chyle reflux, chylothorax, chylopericardium, chyle reflux in the pulmonary lymphatics, hypoproteinemia and food allergies.
(20) After a dose of 50 g liquid paraffin administered as a laxative, 246 ml chyle was collected within the following 14 h which yielded a total of 4.5 mg liquid paraffin.
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.