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PubMed1976

The small bowel enema: description and experience of a technique.

A method of examining the small bowel, involving duodenal intubation is described. Good visualization of all parts of the small bowel is obtained using an air-barium double contrast technique. The technique is compared and contrasted with the more conventional methods of small bowel examination, and its advantages and disadvantages discussed. The authors relate their experience with the technique, indicating the abnormalities which can be shown, and list the type of clinical problems where the technique may be most usefully employed.

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PubMed1975

Immunological abnormalities in splenic atrophy.

Multiple immunological abnormalities have been demonstrated in fourteen patients with evidence in the blood-film of hyposplenism due to splenic atrophy. Reduction in spleen size was confirmed radiologically, and impairment of phagocytosis by the spleen was demonstrated by studying the survival and fate of chemically damaged autologous red blood-cells. Eight of the patients had intestinal malabsorption, and there was a high frequency of autoimmune disease in the remainder. Although patients with splenic atrophy showed little evidence of impairment of normal immune responses, there was a high frequency of autoantibody formation. There is thus an association between widespread immunological disturbances, notably autoimmunity, and splenic atrophy.

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