Enteric-coated aspirin 100 mg/day causes significantly less gastroduodenal damage over 7 days than the same dose of plain aspirin, when given to healthy subjects. There was little gastric injury and no significant differences between EC-ASA and placebo in this respect.
A prospective study was performed in 50 patients with acute pancreatitis to find out the value of computed tomography for an early prognosis. CT findings (retroperitoneal fluid collections with enlargement of the retroperitoneal space, intraperitoneal air-fluid levels and ascites), clinical (age, ileus) and laboratory tests (LDH, blood glucose, urea, creatinine and calcium) were taken into consideration. These data were collected during the first two days after hospitalisation and turned out to be of considerable prognostic value: About 70% of the patients died when 5 or more of these pathological findings existed. More than 90% of all patients who died belonged to this group.
Eleven patients who had had total pancreatic resection had hyperglycaemia (16.8 +/- 7.7 mmol/1 corresponding to 3.02 +/- 1.38 g/l) after fasting for 14 or 36 hours. After arginine stimulation there was no evidence for pancreatic glucagon. These findings indicate that (1) in man there are no sites of pancreatic glucagon production outside of the (resected) pancreas; (2) marked hyperglycaemia may occur without glucagon.
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