Emergency intravenous cholangiography in patients with acute abdominal pain.
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(1) Solubilization of Telepaque in the intestine is a limiting factor in the rate of intestinal absorption. Bilopaque and Oragrafin are more water-soluble and appear to be better absorbed than Telepaque. (2) Bile salts in the intestinal lumen increase the solubility of Telepaque. Therefore, a fatty meal administered with the Telepaque is desirable to evacuate bile salts from the gallbladder into the intestine. This is not required for the more water-soluble agents, Biopaque and Oragrafin. (3) The degree of protein binding of the contrast agents can be related to the degree of toxicity. Cholografin is the most highly bound and is the most toxic. (4) Hepatic receptor proteins may specifically bind the biliary contrast agents. This may be the reason that the renal contrast materials are poorly escreted in bile compared to the biliary contrast agents. (5) Telepaque is conjugated in the liver with glucuronide making the compound more soluble in bile. This prevents precipitation of Telepaque in the gallbladder and avoids reabsorpiton from the intestine. (6) The biliary excretion of Telepaque is facilitated by bile salts. Therefore, the administration of a fatty meal with Telepaque not only increases the rate of intestinal absorption of Telepaque but also the rate of biliary excretion. (7) The rate of biliary excretion of both the oral and the intravenous contrast agents appears to be limited by a hepatic transport maximum. Above a certain dose, increased amounts of the contrast agents do not result in more rapid excretion of the agents into bile. Rapid infusion of intravenous contrast agents results in high plasma concentration and greater urinary excretion, without increasing the biliary excretion. It does not appear to be indicated in clinical practice. (8) The biliary concentration of the contrast agents used for intravenous cholangiography is determined by their rate of biliary excretion, the choleretic effect of the contrast agent, and factors that determine the rate of basal bile flow. Fixed coupling of water with the biliary excretion of these contrast agents imposes an inherent limitation on the concentration of the contrast agent in bile. It appears that the biliary concentration of the intravenous contrast materials can be increased by having the patient fast prior to intravenous cholangiography. This decreases the enterohepatic circulation of bile salts and the rate of bile-salt-dependent bile flow. (9) Failure of the gallbladder to visualize after administration of Telepaque when there is adequate biliary excretion may be due to cystic duct obstruction, failure of the inflamed gallbladder mucosa to reabosrb water, or reabsorption or the contrast agent by the diseased gallbladder mucosa. (10) Maximum concentration of Telepaque occurs at 14-19 hr after ingestion. It is at this time that radiographs of the gallbladder should be made. With Bilopaque, peak concentration occurs at 10 hr so radiographs can be made earlier when Bilopaque is used.
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Interactions between some stable linear peptides with renin inhibitory activity and a multispecific transport system in the basolateral plasma membrane of liver cells was studied on cell suspensions. The peptides used in our experiments were taken up by liver cells and subsequently eliminated without any biotransformation (e.g., proteolysis). No degradation products could be detected in the extracellular medium by thin-layer chromatography. All peptides tested inhibited the uptake of physiological and of some foreign substrates of the multispecific bile acid transporter (MT). The phalloidin response of liver cells was also inhibited to a similar degree in a concentration-dependent manner. The potency of inhibition did not correlate with the lipophilic properties of the peptides. On the other hand a tight correlation could be documented between the inhibition of cholate transport and that of the phalloidin response. Transport inhibition of typical substrates of the MT by the above renin inhibitors was competitive. In contrast, the transport of a typical substrate of the bilirubin carrier (rifampicin), of amino acids (alpha-aminoisobutyric acid), long chain fatty acids (oleic acid) and cationic compounds (thiamin hydrochloride) was not inhibited by the same renin inhibitors. These results indicate that linear renin inhibiting peptides are taken up into liver cells by carrier proteins related to the MT.
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Experience with contrast enhanced computed tomographic (CT) examinations of 13 patients with hepatic tumors using a new cholangiographic contrast material, meglumine iotroxate, is described. After infusion, small density differences between the tumor and liver were accentuated. In 11 cases postcontrast CT using meglumine iotroxate improved visualization of lesions compared with conventional pre-and postcontrast CT using urographic contrast material. Our results indicate that contrast enhanced CT using meglumine iotroxate is a promising alternative to conventional CT in the detection of hepatic tumors.
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The authors classify various types of stratification phenomenon during intravenous cholangiography. The stage of gallbladder opacification in the recumbent position has been classified as (I) mottled, (II) dendritic, (III) ring-like, and (IV) homogeneous. 'Dendritic' type of stratification phenomenon has never been reported in the literature to our knowledge. At 20 min following infusion of contrast material homogeneous opacification of the gallbladder was noticed in only 14% of patients. The others fell into types I, II or III of stratification phenomenon. In contrast, 87% of the opacified gallbladders were homogeneous on the after fatty meal film. It is therefore mandatory for diagnosis that either a 24 h film or a fatty meal film be taken to avoid the stratification phenomenon.