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C Stankowiak

Publications and source records attributed to C Stankowiak.

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PubMed1982

[The long term results of reparative surgery for aorto-iliac stenosis and chronic obstruction. 563 cases followed up for 2 to 13 years (author's transl)].

The results of surgery for aorto-iliac obliterative arterial disease deteriorate progressively over 10 years to leave only 44% good results, 39% deaths, 3% poor results and 14% amputations. Nevertheless, the quality of the surviving patients is satisfactory with 72% good functional results at 10 years and a permeability rate of 76% of reparative procedures at the same period. It is certain that current improvements having resulted in a decrease in early mortality will affect the long-term results in view of the tendency to horizontalisation of graphs beyond the first six months.

Aged↗
PubMed1981

[Dissecting aortic aneurysm in the 8th month of a twin pregnancy. A review of the literature (author's transl)].

48 % of women under the age of 40 who have an acute dissecting aortic aneurysm are pregnant. Dissection of the ascending aorta (types I and II of De Bakey) are most frequent types to be found, as indeed they are outside pregnancy. There are no histological lesions that are specific for pregnancy. The clinical and angiographic signs are not specially modified in pregnancy. Surgical treatment is made more difficult by the pregnant state. It seems to have been used very little in pregnancy, as there have been only two cases published since 1961. The prognosis for the mother is frightful, with 94 % of cases dying, most of them within the first 48 hours. The fetal prognosis is not much better, with 10 children alive (including our 2 children) out of 78 case histories published to date.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

[Short- and mean results of mitral and aortic valve replacement with a Björk-Shiley disc prosthesis. Thromboembolic and hemorrhagic complications].

96 patients with a Björk aortic valve and 112 patients with a Björk mitral valve were followed up for four and a half years and five years after operation respectively. The actuarial survival rate was 82.5% in the aortic and 73% in the mitral patients. Late death was observed in 7.3% of mitral patients with thromboembolic complications and 4.2% of mitral patients with left ventricular dysfunction, compared to 2.6% of aortic patients with thromboembolism and 3.6% with left ventricular dysfunction. The incidence of thrombolic complications was three times as great with the prosthesis in the mitral position. The probability of absence of thromboembolic complications, studied by actuarial methods, was 93% at 4 1/2 years in aortic prostheses compared to 82% at 5 years in the mitral prostheses. 12 haemorrhagic complications (5.7%), with one fatality, were observed. Aortic valve replacement with a Björk prosthesis is a very satisfactory operation and the results compare favourably with other prostheses. However, the risk of thromboembolic complications should be seriously considered in the surgical indications when this prosthesis is to be used for mitral valve replacement.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

[Aneurysm of the ascending aorta and aortic insuffiency].

Basing themselves on 24 cases of aneurysm of the ascending aorta with gross aortic incompetence, the authors give an account of their personal experience of this condition. They emphasise: -- the problems of aetiology posed by this annular dilation of the aorta with its associated elastic tissue dystrophy which is seldom apparent except at histological examination of the aortic wall at percuaneous biopsy; --the operative problems which confront the surgeon, especially because the orifices of the coronary vessels are in the very centre of the aneurysm. The detail their modest surgical experience, and emphasise the advantages of using Bentall's operation systematically; it seems that this is likely to be the operation of choice in the future.

Adult↗