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A Faenza

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PubMed1989

Blunt traumatic carotid dissection with delayed symptoms.

We describe five patients with blunt traumatic carotid dissection with delayed clinical presentation that varied from 2 weeks to 6 months. Four patients had severe head injury, and one patient had direct blunt trauma to the neck. Cerebrovascular symptoms developed in four patients. The fifth patient suffered loss of vision as a result of a concurrent giant intracranial dissecting aneurysm. Arteriography demonstrated a "string sign" in two cases and a cervical carotid aneurysm in three; two of the latter also had siphon occlusion, and one of these had a superimposed supraclinoid dissecting aneurysm. One patient was treated by thromboendarterectomy, one by aneurysmorraphy, another by carotid ligation, and the other two patients were treated medically. Mechanisms of injury, forensic problems, and therapeutic options are discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1980

[Renal transplantation in Bologna].

From october '76 to march '79 at the Clinica Chirurgica I of the University of Bologna 50 renal graft have been performed with living donor in 8 cases and with cadaver donor in 42. In the living donor group there was one death for rejection and sepsis. The remaining 7 patients are all alive with normal renal function. Among the 42 patients with cadaver donor 6 died: 3 early (one for gastric hemorrage, one for necrosis of the ascending colon, and one for rejection) and 3 late (two following many rejection episodes and one for miocardial infarction). 6 more patients underwent transplantectomy (4 for acute and 2 for chronic rejection). The 27 remaining patients have normal renal function. The only early important surgical problem was one urinary fistula in the 15th postoperative day successfully reoperated. The major late surgical complication was a renal artery stenosis distal from the arterial anastomosis followed by difficult but effective surgical correction. The authors regret not having been able to use more than half of the possible cadaver donors for refusal of the relatives.

Cadaver↗
PubMed1980

[Clinico-statistical analysis of the problem of the cadaver donor in renal transplantation (clinical experience from 1945 to the present time)].

The series of cadaver donors in Bologna hospitals from 1975 to today is reviewed. All possible donors were compared with those actually utilized and the reasons that led to renunciation in a large percentage of cases are analysed. The examination shows that among the factors limiting the number of donors utilized particularly important were the criteria adopted for establishment of donor suitability, family consent and the results of support therapy of the donor's vital functions.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

Clinical results of lumbar sympathectomy alone or as a complement of direct arterial surgery.

Six hundred and eighty patients underwent conservative surgery for chronic obliterative arterial disease of the lower limbs during a 15 year period ranging from 1960 to 1974. Two hundred and fifty-three lumbar sympathectomy were performed in 240 patients, 339 patients had direct surgery and in 133 cases lumbar sympathectomy was added to direct surgery. From this experience the authors conclude: 1. Lumbar sympathectomy has a low mortality rate (3 deaths or 1.18%) and no important after effects: in particular no sexual problems are reported. 2. Lumbar sympathectomy for intermittent claudication seems to be useful since it apparently improves symptoms and prognosis of the operated leg. 3. Lumbar sympathectomy for rest pains or necrosis can be useful in 1/3 of the patients with proximal arterial lesions and in 2/3 of the patients with only peripheral lesions. 4. Lumbar sympathectomy should always be added to direct arterial surgery above the inguinal ligament since it improves the patency rate of arterial reconstruction without increasing the operative risk.

Arterial Occlusive Diseases↗