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Role of enteric plexuses in the competency of telescoped intestinal valves
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Role of enteric plexuses in the competency of telescoped intestinal valves

Yeng Yang, A.Mohsen Kholoussy, Hiroyuki Kuwano, Kenji Takenaka, Andrew Perez, Teruo Matsumoto and Yonghong F Yang
The American journal of surgery, v 153(4), pp 359-363
1987
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9610(87)90577-0
PMID: 3565680
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Abstract

The mechanism of preventing intestinal regurgitation by means of a telescoped intestinal valve has been investigated in this study. Ten telescoped intestinal valves were uniformly created in dogs. A tolerance test to barium reflux was performed before the animals were sacrificed 16 weeks postoperatively, which yielded various barium tolerance values. Statistical analysis revealed that the differences in barium tolerance values in the uniformly constructed valves were closely related to the proportion of the enteric plexuses which contained ganglion cells with normal shapes (r = 0.97, p < 0.001) and their intestinal segment coverage (r = 0.94, p < 0.001), but no correlation was found between barium tolerance and the thickness of the valvular musculature (r = 0.04) or the length of the artificial valve (r = 0.39). The results in this study suggest that the intact enteric plexuses play an important role in modulating the competency of the telescoped intestinal valve.

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