Ninety-three patients with malignant disease underwent orthotopic liver transplantation
between May 1968 and April 1987 in the Cambridge/King's College Hospital program. Of 50 …

Background and aims: Helicobacter pylori infection is the major cause of peptic ulceration
and gastric adenocarcinoma. To address the hypothesis that the human acquired immune …

There is no ideal method for detecting Helicobacter pylori. The'standard'13Carbon urea
breath test (13C-UBT), which involves collecting eight to 15 breath samples and subsequent …

In a prospective, randomized clinical trial, immediate injection sclerotherapy was compared
with treatment by a combined infusion of vasopressin (0.4 unit per min) and nitroglycerin (40 …

Plasma from patients with iron overload resulting from idiopathic hemochromatosis contains
nontransferrin-bound iron, measurable by the bleomycin, assay. During venesection …

Twenty three patients with primary biliary cirrhosis surviving for> 1 yr after liver
transplantation were studied. All reported marked symptomatic improvement, and had …

This trial was carried out to assess the value of propranolo for the prevtion of recurrent
variceal bleeding in patinets with well‐compensated cirrhosis. We also compared …

Administration of low dose dopamine (2.0 μg/kg/minute) begun before surgery in patients
undergoing liver transplantation decreases the incidence of postoperative renal impairment …

One hundred eighty patients with variceal bleeding and treated by long‐term sclerotherapy
were randomized into a prospective randomized controlled clinical trial to assess the …

The efficacy of two doses of balsalazide for the maintenance of remission in patients with
ulcerative colitis was compared in a double‐blind multicentre trial. Sixty‐five patients …