What's the difference between gastroepiploic and omentum?
Gastroepiploic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The internal mammary artery (IMA) and the right gastroepiploic artery are increasingly used for myocardial revascularization.
(2) Heart failure occurred after triple CABG with bilateral internal thoracic and gastroepiploic arteries.
(3) Use of the endoscopic Congo red test provides physiologic evidence that vagus secretory nerve fibers traverse the right and left gastroepiploic nerves, leading us to believe that the gastroepiploic nerves should be routinely divided during proximal gastric vagotomy.
(4) The internal mammary artery graft was used in 55 (86%) patients and the right gastroepiploic artery graft was used in 6 (9%) patients.
(5) The right internal mammary artery, the saphenous vein and the right gastroepiploic artery were also utilized to bypass the other coronary arteries.
(6) The prostacyclin production of the gastroepiploic artery (GEA) and saphenous vein (SV) were studied in 5 patients undergoing coronary artery revascularization.
(7) Nevertheless it has acquired a title of noblesse demonstrating its long survival, and in the meantime has given an impulse to the use of the gastroepiploic artery.
(8) Presented here is a case demonstrating successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of the gastroepiploic artery graft.
(9) Glucagon in the pancreaticoduodenal vein increased markedly, but there were no such prominent changes in the left-gastroepiploic or mesenteric veins, Meanwhile, the level of glucagon in the left-gastroepiploic vein increased remarkably in dogs one week after total pancreatectomy.
(10) Norepinephrine and potassium chloride evoked threefold greater contractions in the gastroepiploic artery than in the mammary artery (p less than 0.01 to 0.05), whereas the sensitivity to the catecholamine was comparable.
(11) Cells in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (dmnX) of the rat were labeled after horseradish peroxidase applications to the right gastroepiploic, the splenic, and the short gastric bundles.
(12) The gastroepiploic and internal mammary arteries showed equal sensitivity, measured by concentration causing half-maximal contraction to norepinephrine and serotonin.
(13) In stomachs infused exclusively by the right gastroepiploic artery, i.e.
(14) The right gastroepiploic artery is being used as a third arterial conduit for coronary artery bypass surgery.
(15) Twenty-eight patients underwent adrenal autotransplantation to the omentum with the gland's vein anastomosed to the gastroepiploic artery.
(16) The right gastroepiploic artery was used as an in situ graft to the right coronary artery or circumflex branches for 17 patients and as an aorta-coronary ("free") graft in 19 patients, six to the left anterior descending or diagonal, six to the circumflex, and seven to the right coronary artery.
(17) A 25-year-old man with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia who had severe coronary artery disease underwent coronary revascularization by combined arterial grafts using bilateral internal mammary arteries and gastroepiploic artery.
(18) Following sigmoid colectomy and descending colostomy, a catheter was inserted from the right gastroepiploic artery to the proper hepatic artery.
(19) A possible problem in coronary artery surgery with the right gastroepiploic artery (GEA) is kinking of the GEA at the tunnel through the diaphragm.
(20) Gastroepiploic artery aneurysms are rare, but the association of visceral artery aneurysm and aortic aneurysm is clinically significant and is emphasized in this report.
Omentum
Definition:
(n.) A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although there was a considerable overlap in the values of acoustic nonlinearity of different body fats, in general their values followed the order: mesenteric fat greater than subcutaneous fat greater than omentum fat greater than breast fat.
(2) Also numerous small knots on the small intestine, peritoneum, and omentum, as well as a considerable amount of ascites were observed.
(3) certainly in site at the beginning of pregnancy and with asymptomatic perforation of the uterus during the pregnancy with incorporation of the device by the omentum.
(4) The omentum acts as sheath that reinforces the anastomosis.
(5) Endolymphatic administration of kanamycin provided an increase in its activity in the inflamed tissues of the peritoneum and omentum and markedly prolonged its halflife as compared to those after the routine intramuscular administration of the drug.
(6) Omentum transposition promoted rapid healing with a low mortality rate.
(7) Splenic conservation by suture with or without packing with omentum or oxidized cellulose was successful in 27 out of 37 attempts.
(8) When 15 small sections were transplanted to the omentum in a "necklace" fashion, good uptake and preservation were seen after six months.
(9) This complication may be prevented by interposing the omentum between the liver and the duodenum at the time of any operation on the biliary system and the duodenum.
(10) The results of treatment of 12 children with primary acute diseases of the greater omentum, in whom preoperative diagnosis is difficult, have been analysed.
(11) The IUD had migrated to the cul-desac of Douglas and the omentum, respectively, and surgery was uneventful.
(12) Therefore the omentum leads the traffic of peritoneal macrophages.
(13) The autografts were divided into 4 groups as follows; no preservation (control) group (n = 4), graft preserved in Collins solution (n = 11), graft preserved in phosphate buffered extracellular solution (Ep4) (n = 11), and graft preserved in physiological saline solution (n = 11) for 24 or 48 hours at 4 degrees C. After preservation, laparotomy was performed on the animals and the tracheal autograft was wrapped in the distal portion of the omentum.
(14) The effectiveness of extracts was measured by the growth activity of bovine aortic endothelial cell incubated for 6 days with various omentum extracts.
(15) Since 1984, eight pelvic ependymomas have been reported that have originated in the ovary, broad ligament, mesovarium, and omentum.
(16) This problem is inherent to the design of catheters using sideports for outflow and is enhanced by the tenacity of the omentum in this population in walling off foreign bodies.
(17) Computed tomography demonstrated prominent linear soft tissue densities, an increase in CT number of the involved greater omentum, and posterior displacement of the small bowel.
(18) In former investigations the author described the use of omentum majus in building microsurgical compound island flaps employing supporting tissue.
(19) Fischer 344 rats and a transplantable carcinogen-induced rat colon cancer were used to test: (1) whether the omentum is a unique site of intra-abdominal colon tumor implantation which contributes to S.B.O.
(20) In five dogs (group C) the omentum with its own vascular supply was completely wrapped around the graft.