7 months. Two of 12 patients require intermittent medical treatment for presumed cholangitis, but have not required biliary interventions. Two patients have required chronic PTC catheter drainage. The 30-day postoperative morbidity was 58%, with four serious (Grade 3) complications occurring in three patients. Early stricture repair (<6 months from diagnosis of stricture) and younger donor grafts were

associated with better surgical outcomes. Timely surgical correction of biliary strictures is successful and durable in appropriately selected patients. However, operative repair is associated with significant postoperative morbidity.”
“Background: Prospective epidemiologic studies have generated www.selleckchem.com/products/AZD1480.html mixed results regarding the association between saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake and risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke. These associations have not been extensively studied in Asians.

Objective: The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that SFA intake is associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality in Japanese whose average SFA intake is low.

Design: The Japan Collaborative Cohort Study for Evaluation of Cancer Risk (JACC

Study) comprised 58,453 Japanese men and women who completed a food-frequency questionnaire. Participants were aged 40-79 ABT 263 y at baseline (1988-1990) and were followed up for 14.1 y. Associations of energy-adjusted SFA intake with mortality from stroke (intraparenchymal and subarachnoid hemorrhages and ischemic stroke) and heart diseases (IHD, cardiac arrest, and heart failure) were examined after adjustment for age, sex, and cardiovascular disease risk and dietary factors.

Results: We observed inverse associations of SFA intake with mortality from total stroke [n = 976; multivariable hazard ratio (95% CI) for highest compared with lowest quintiles: 0.69 (0.53, 0.89); P for trend = 0.004], intraparenchymal hemorrhage [n = 224; 0.48 (0.27, 0.85); P for trend = 0.03], and ischemic stroke [n = 321; 0.58 (0.37, 0.90); P for trend = 0.01]. No multivariable-adjusted associations were observed between SFA and

mortality from subarachnoid hemorrhage [n = 153; 0.91 (0.46, 1.80); P for trend = 0.47] and heart disease [n = 836; 0.89 (0.68, 1.15); P for trend = 0.59].

Conclusion: SFA intake was inversely associated with mortality STAT inhibitor from total stroke, including intraparenchymal hemorrhage and ischemic stroke subtypes, in this Japanese cohort. Am J Clin Nutr 2010;92:759-65.”
“Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening autosomal recessive hereditary disease, affecting multiple organs. In end stage disease, lung transplantation improves the quality of life and prolongs survival. CF liver disease (CFLD) as co-morbidity develops in 8-17% of CF patients. We aimed to investigate the impact of liver injury on prognosis following lung transplantation. Thirty-one patients with CF who underwent double lung transplantation (DLTx) from 1999 to 2009 were included.