... was not obtained in the majority of patients, even after a long-term observation of > 10 years, and severe excocrine/endocrine insufficiency, severe duct abnormalities and pancreatic calcifications developed. Alcohol abstinence failed to have a significant beneficial effect on pain. Pancreatic surgery led...

...Tomasz Laskus; Janusz Slusarczyk; Ewa Lupa; Janusz Cianciara The course and outcome of acute type B hepatitis was analyzed in 30 heavy alcohol abusers. The course of the disease was very similar to that found among non-drinkers, the only difference being higher mean GGT activity and a higher...

...Hanne Tønnesen; Jens Rikardt Andersen; Per Christoffersen; Niels Kaas-Claesson Of 1,400 consecutive patients applying to an outpatient clinic for treatment of alcoholism, 477 complained of upper abdominal dyspepsia. After 2 weeks of abstinence, 78 had persisting complaints; of these, 72% had...

...Wallace Dinsmore; Michael E. Callender; Dorothy McMaster; James Todd; Andrew H.G. Love Alcoholism is occasionally complicated by zinc deficiency. We have assessed the possibility that malabsorption of zinc may be a potential cause. Using a dual isotope absorption technique the absorption of 65 Zn...

...C. Boustière; H. Sarles; J. Lohse; J.P. Durbec; J. Sahel Citrate, calcium and protein have been estimated in pure pancreatic juice after a secretin and a CCK injection in 4 patients presenting with alcoholic calcified pancreatitis (ACP), 10 controls without evidence of pancreatic disease, drinking...

...J.Ch. Bode; H. Knüppel; W. Schwerk; H. Lorenz-Meyer; H.K. Dürr Jejunal suction biopsies of 18 chronic alcoholics (alcohol intake of more than 100 g of ethanol per day for several years) and 10 nonalcoholic control subjects were analyzed quantitatively using the microdissection technique described...

... and liver cirrhosis but not for lung and pancreas cancer. This might be related to the reduction of alcohol consumption during the second world war. Alcoholism Epidemiologic methods Oesophageal neoplasm Lung neoplasm Laryngeal neoplasm Liver cirrhosis Pancreas neoplasm War Original Papers...

...J. Hotz; H. Goebell; C. Herfarth; M. Probst Three cases of benign pancreatic ascites have been added to 94 cases reviewed from the literature. Common characteristics of this syndrome were chronic alcoholism, intermittent abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and considerable weight loss which occurred...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 1978 Alcoholism Oesophageal varices Gastrointestinal motility Hepatitis chronic active Liver cirrhosis Lower oesophageal sphincter Digestion 18: 178 185 (1978...

...A. Bretholz; D. Levesque; M. Voirol; O.M. Tiscornia; S.R. Bloom; H. Sarles Plasma immunoreactive secretin has been compared before and after stimulation by intraduodenal infusion of HCl in 3 dogs who had received 2 g·kg -1 . day -1 alcohol for 3 years and 4 non-alcoholic control dogs. After HCl...

...P. Paliard; D. Vitrey; G. Fournier; J. Belhadjali; L. Patricot; F. Berger 5 patients treated with perhexiline maleate, 200–400 mg/day for at least 6 months, exhibited evidence of hepatitis. The picture was very similar to acute alcoholic hepatitis, clinically, biologically and histologically...

... Alcohol Alcoholism Cholecystokinin Rabbits Oleic acid Secretin Digestion 16: 194 198 (1977) Chronic Alcohol Consumption Does Not Modify Cholecystokinin Blood Levels Estimated by Bioassay in the Dog N.E. Planche, T. Chau-Huu, P.P. Lai and H. Sarles Unite de Rccherchcs de Pathologie Digestive...

...G. Decaux; R. Hallemans; J. Mockel; R. Naeije The serum levels of calcium, corrected for serum albumin, were investigated in 65 consecutive patients with acute pancreatitis. Hypocalcemia was present in 55% of 38 patients in whom chronic alcoholism was the associated etiology, and in 26% of 27 other...

...A.A. Mihas Serum α 1 -antitrypsin concentrations have been measured in 68 patients with liver disease. High mean values (359 ± 18.0) were found in patients with alcoholic hepatitis whereas patients with acute viral hepatitis and chronic active hepatitis did not show any significant differences from...

...P. Demol; B.N. Andersen; H. Sarles The action of ethanol and acetaldehyde on exocrine pancreatic secretion of a group of normal and a group of chronic (18 months) alcohol-fed Sprague-Dawley rats were investigated. The volume of basal pancreatic secretion was significantly larger in alcoholic rats...

... verified in dogs provided with a Thomas cannula and consuming 2 g kg -1 ethanol or not, daily since 3 years. An intravenous infusion of 0.75 mg kg -1 h -1 of atropine suppresses the difference between alcoholic and non-alcoholic animals. Therefore, the increased release of CCK-PZ in response to meal, which...

...F. André; M. Druguet; C. André Serum antibodies directed against 5 alimentary antigens and antigen-antibody complexes were determined in 15 control subjects and in 15 patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis. Cirrhotic patients presented an increased immune response against these antigens. Antigen...

...P. Brissot; A. Le Treut; G. Dien; M. Cottencin; M. Simon; M. Bourel Serum levels of vitamin A, its specific carrier protein retinol-binding protein (RBP), and zinc were determined in 34 cases of idiopathic hemochromatosis, 33 cases of alcoholic cirrhosis, 10 cases of non-alcoholic cirrhosis...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 1978 Alcoholism Endoplasmic reticulum Lipid storing cells Liver Liver ultrastructure Mefhotrexate Microscopy electron Psoriasis Digestion 17: 488 502 (1978) Fine...

... to 31 normal subjects and 37 alcoholic cirrhosis patients. The control groups exhibited the following mean levels ( ± SEM): 34.4 ± 1.9µg/10 8 WBC in normals and 22.0 ± 1.8µg/10 8 WBC in alcoholic cirrhosis. In idiopathic hemochromatosis the mean levels were: for the untreated group 19.5 ± 1.7µg/10 8 WBC...