Dietary egg white protein (EWP) decreases serum cholesterol levels. We previously showed that EWP decreased cholesterol absorption in the intestine. Rats subjected to permanent lymph duct cannulation ...

THIS paper was written to present a case of extensive chylothorax and chyloperitoneum secondary to a thrombus occluding the thoracic duct. The patient had a long venous catheter introduced through ...

Many combined cycle power plants (CCPP) and cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) plants utilize supplemental firing systems, or duct burners, inside the heat recovery steam generator ...

Dumont and Rifkind recently proposed that the New World monkey, the sloth and the bat have evolved only a rudimentary form of thoracic duct because these animals hang upside down from trees 1 ...

Central conducting lymphatic anomaly is a heterogeneous form of a group of disorders, known as complex lymphatic anomalies, that encompasses any condition affecting the thoracic duct and cisterna ...

This report clarifies the functional significance of the thoracic duct by tracing its evolutionary development to selection of a mechanism which pumps lymph into blood.

IN the 1908 Christian Herter Lectures at Bellevue Hospital, Starling1 emphasized the important influence of changes in hepatic interstitial-fluid formation on flow and composition of thoracic-duct ...

Acute and Chronic Outcomes in Early Feasibility Evaluation of Device-Based Thoracic Duct Decompression in Hospitalized Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Patients ...

Early data show that thoracic duct decompression with a novel catheter-based system on top of IV loop diuretics safely lowered congestion in patients with acute decompensated HF compared with ...

Chylous ascites is a clinical manifestation of thoracic duct lymphangioma and is composed of lymph accumulation caused by dilation of this lymphatic channel. It appears milky in the peritoneal cavity, ...