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Background Gastric cancer after Helicobacter pylori (HP) eradication is a crucial clinical challenge today as HP eradication therapy is widely performed. Detecting gastric cancer after HP eradication tends to be difficult with normal white-light endoscopy. In the present study, we aimed to identify easily-evaluated endoscopic findings that indicate the presence of gastric cancer after HP eradication so that endoscopists can consider additional detailed examinations at the site. Methods We analyzed the endoscopic images of 43 patients who underwent endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer after HP eradication and 119 patients with an HP eradication history who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy for a medical checkup. Endoscopic findings were evaluated according to the Kyoto classification of gastritis (atrophy, intestinal metaplasia, enlarged folds, nodularity, and diffuse redness) and map-like redness. Results Patients with gastric cancer had significantly higher total Kyoto risk scores; more atrophy, intestinal metaplasia, and diffuse redness; and a significantly higher prevalence of map-like redness compared with those without gastric cancer, in the univariate analyses. We used logistic regression analysis with forward selection based on the likelihood ratio to develop a model using atrophy and diffuse redness. Receiver operating characteristic analysis showed that a score of A2 in the Kyoto classification of gastritis (open-type atrophic pattern in the Kimura–Takemoto classification) was an endoscopic marker for the presence of post-HP-eradication gastric cancer. Conclusions Endoscopic severe gastric mucosal atrophy is useful to screen patients for gastric cancer after HP eradication.

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The wettability and stability of silane-treated substrates are central in many processes of industrial and environmental interest. Here, we bring the capability of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to bear on the wettability evaluation of treated glass. For a suite of silane-treated slides we investigate the relationship between wettability and surface composition as determined from XPS. The adhesion behavior and contact angle of mineral oil on brine-covered surfaces are used here as surface wettability indicators. The XPS spectra of silanes and silane-treated glass slides indicate that silicon species of the kind Si–CH exhibit a well-defined binding energy which differs from that of the Si–O species of the glass. The presence of the Si–CH species reveals glass surfaces that have been rendered hydrophobic by chemisorption of organic matter. The surface carbon content as determined from XPS correlates strongly with the equilibrium contact angle, contact angle hysteresis, adhesion behavior, and wettability state. This correlation can be used to rapidly determine the wettability of treated glass.

Transport properties of natural porous media have been observed to obey scaling laws in the wetting phase saturation. Previous work relates power-law behavior at low wetting phase saturations, i.e., at high capillary pressures, to the thin-film physics of the wetting phase and the fractal character of the pore space of porous media. Here, we present recent combined porousplate capillary pressure and electrical conductivity data of Berea sandstone at low saturations that lend support to the scaling laws. Power law is interpreted in terms of the exponent m in the relation of surface forces and film thickness and the fractal dimension D of the interface between pore space and solid matrix. Simple determination of D from capillary pressure and m from electrical conductivity data can be used to rapidly determine wetting phase relative permeability and capillary dispersion coefficient at low wetting phase saturations.