In animal experiments it was examined, to what extent prophylactic application of Somatostatin is able to prevent the stress-induced ulcer of the rat. 32 male Wistar rats were exposed to a combined immobilisation-hypoxia-stress. Somatostatin was given intraperitoneally as bolus and intravenously as a continuous infusion. The results indicated that Somatostatin lowers significantly the incidence rate of stress-induced gastric ulcers in the rat.
Experimental studies confirm the clinical results of a correlation between jaundice-dependent hepatic failure and an incidence of stress ulcers: stress ulcers appeared much more frequently in stress-exposed rats with ligation of the choledochus and in animals with operative restitution of the bile flow after ligation of the choledochus than they appeared in controls.
The endoscopic release of the carpal ligament gives the opportunity to treat the carpal tunnel syndrome in a comfortable and minimal invasive way. Between 1 October 1994 and 7 May 1995, 46 patients who underwent endoscopic surgery on 55 hands were documented in a prospective study. The following results were taken from a questionnaire. There were not any complaints, or the complaints were so much diminished that complete division of the carpal ligament could be viewed as accomplished in 51 of 55 cases. There were continuing complaints in four cases, and after an additional check two patients were operated on again. The advantage of the endoscopic method is the inconspicuous scar and the reduced postoperative disablement. No complications have occurred.
Ehrungen 31Pro]. Dr. R. Zenker, Milnchen: Sehr geehrter Herr Prgsident, meine Damen und Herren ! Ich danke Ihnen filr die groBe Anszeichnung, die Sie mir mit der Ernennung zum Ehrenmitglied unserer Geseilsehaft zuteil werden lassen. Wenn ich in den 43 Jahren meiner chirurgischen Tgtigkeit, davon 30 Jahre in selbst~ndiger Stellung, in bescheidenem MaBe zum Ansehen und zum l%rtschritt unserer Gesellschaft beitragen konnte, so verdanke ich dies meinen Lehrem Max Borst, yon Weizs~cker, Rudolf Grill und besonders meinem ehirurgischen Lehrer Kirschner, aber auch der unermildlichen Mitarbeit meiner Schiller. So daft ich diese Auszeichnung als Anerkennung meines Schillerkreises betrachten.
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