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The importance of the stomach in the magnitude of excreted amounts of the major histamine metabolite in the urine was studied during total parenteral nutrition in five patients before and after total gastrectomy. In all subjects, a reduction in the 24-h urinary excretion of methylimidazoleacetic acid was observed. No corresponding effect was seen after an operation because of abdominal aortic aneurysm. In patients with duodenal ulcer disease and those submitted to a cholecystectomy because of cholecystolithiasis, we studied the catabolism of histamine in the stomach by injecting 14C-histamine directly into the portal vein and, simultaneously, 3H-histamine intra-arterially to the corpus fundus region of the stomach and subsequently determining the urinary excretion of 14C. 3H-histamine and their basic and acid metabolites, respectively. We found no apparent difference in the pattern of excreted 14C and 3H metabolites between the two patients groups, indicating that the catabolism of histamine in the stomach of patients with duodenal ulcer disease is similar to that in 'healthy' controls.
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PMID:In vivo catabolism of histamine in the human stomach. 208 29

Gallstones were detected in 42 of 865 patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (4.9%). Eighteen patients underwent concomitant aneurysm resection and cholecystectomy. Eleven patients had aneurysmectomy without cholecystectomy. Thirteen patients underwent cholecystectomy alone. There were no significant increases in operative mortality, duration of operation, or length of hospital stay when cholecystectomy was added to aneurysm resection. However, there was one instance of prosthetic infection which occurred in a patient who did not have his graft retroperitonealized prior to cholecystectomy, and who also underwent gastrostomy and drainage of the liver bed. There have been no graft complications in the remaining 17 consecutive patients who had their graft retroperitonealized prior to cholecystectomy. Nine of 11 patients who underwent aneurysmectomy without cholecystectomy experienced an episode of acute cholecystitis during a mean follow-up period of 2.9 years. Two of these episodes occurred in the immediate postoperative period and one patient died of biliary sepsis. On the basis of these findings, concomitant aneurysmectomy and cholecystectomy is advised in those patients with cholelithiasis undergoing aortic aneurysm resection providing no contraindications exist.
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PMID:Management of cholelithiasis in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm. 663 76

Successful simultaneous operation for thoracic and abdominal lesions was performed in three cases. A 70-year-old man with bronchogenic cyst and a 73-year-old woman with thymoma, who had also cholecystolithiasis respectively, underwent a cholecystectomy following resection of the intrathoracic tumors. A 69-year-old man with bronchogenic carcinoma and abdominal aortic aneurysm underwent a left upper lobectomy following aneurysmectomy and grafting using vascular prosthesis. Their postoperative courses were uneventful. One stage operation has the advantage of treating both lesions simultaneously and saving the patient from the physical and psychosomatic pain and the risk of a second procedure. If patients are properly selected, simultaneous operation for thoracic and abdominal lesions can be safely performed with a short hospitalization and less expense.
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PMID:[Simultaneous operation for thoracic and abdominal lesions]. 817 7