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T Ohata

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Hemodynamic changes during laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients with heart disease.

Changes in the hemodynamics and urine output were investigated in 19 patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy, five of whom had heart disease with the New York Heart Association classification I (n = 1) and II (n = 4). Systemic blood pressure, central venous pressure, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and cardiac output did not significantly change during the procedure including the establishment of pneumoperitoneum. Urine output 30-60 min after starting the pneumoperitoneum was significantly lower in the patients with heart disease compared to the values before and in the initial phase (0-30 min), and also to the values before and during the procedure in the control group. One patient suffered temporary cardiac decompensation following laparoscopic cholecystectomy which prolonged his hospital stay to seven days. The remaining four patients with heart disease could be discharged on the third or fourth day postoperatively. It is concluded that laparoscopic cholecystectomy is feasible in patients with heart disease but attention should be paid to the possibility of oliguria during prolonged pneumoperitoneum.

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[A five-year-survival case in which complete response was recognized after combined chemotherapy using 5-fluorouracil, adriamycin and mitomycin C (FAM) for unresectable gastric cancer].

FAM (5-fluorouracil, adriamycin, mitomycin C) therapy was performed on a 65-year-old man with unresectable gastric cancer. Cancer cells have not been recognized by endoscopic biopsy after the patient's complete response. He is alive without metastasis of recurrence for five years.

Adenocarcinoma, Papillary

Determination of serum cortisol by reversed-phase liquid chromatography using precolumn sulphuric acid-ethanol fluorescence derivatization and column switching.

An assay method for serum cortisol, using precolumn sulphuric acid-ethanol fluorescence derivatization and reversed-phase liquid chromatography with a column-switching technique, has been developed. The crude precolumn fluorescence cortisol derivative was prepared by the addition of sulphuric acid to serum deproteinized with ethanol, and directly injected onto an octadecylsilane-bonded silica gel (ODS) precolumn for concentration and purification. After switching columns the samples were separated using an ODS analytical column and monitored fluorimetrically. When the pH of the mobile phase in the analytical separator decreased to 1.85, the emission wavelength of the cortisol derivative changed to 520 nm (excitation of 365 nm) and the fluorescence intensity increased. Among the sulphuric acid-ethanol derivatives of various steroids, cortisol, corticosterone and testosterone emitted fluorescence. However, their retention times differed from those of the cortisol derivatives (12.5 min). The detection limit of cortisol was 0.3 micrograms/dl (signal-to-noise ratio of 3). Use of the fully automated column-switching system contributed to good reproducibility and recovery.

Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid

Determination of urinary free cortisol by high performance liquid chromatography with sulphuric acid-ethanol derivatization and column switching.

A rapid and highly sensitive determination method for urinary free cortisol has been developed using reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with a precolumn for sulphuric acid-ethanol fluorescence derivatization and column switching. Urinary cortisol, eluted from the octadecylsilane-bonded silica (ODS) minicolumn with 90% aqueous ethanol, was derivatized with the addition of sulphuric acid only at ambient temperature. Cortisol derivatives injected directly onto the ODS precolumn were purified on-line. After switching the columns, the cortisol derivative was separated on an ODS analytical column with a retention time of 15.3 min and monitored at an emission wavelength of 520 nm (exitation wavelength of 365 nm) to decrease the detection limit to 0.26 microgram/dL (signal-to-noise ratio = 3). The automated HPLC operation resulted in good reproducibility and recovery of the stable cortisol derivative at 5 degrees C.

Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid