61.   The sex distribution, however, showed statistically more male patients in the Dieulafoy group.

62.   No patient in this group could be considered to have had a successful and uneventful procedure.

63.   This may indicate early referral by our rheumatology department in keeping with the high percentage of these patients in our study.

64.   Two pouches failed because of ischaemia but the clinical results in the remaining seven patients are indistinguishable from younger patients in the series.

65.   Acid hypersecretion found in a subgroup of alcoholic patients in these studies also occurred in dogs chronically given alcohol.

66.   Only six patients in the oxygen group and three in the air group showed no electrocardiographic abnormalities at any stage.

67.   The coefficient of variation of the measurements for each patient in the present study was calculated as a measure of within patient variability.

68.   Organised thrombi have been noted in some patients in association with plexiform lesions suggesting chronic thomboemboli as the cause.

69.   With the patient in the supine position the manometry catheter was passed transnasally into the stomach.

70.   This ensured that after randomisation, there were about equal numbers of obese patients in the three treatment groups.