Sebocystomatosis with congenital pachyonychia.
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Abnormalities, Multiple↗
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J Bustamante
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[Tumour of the corpus callosum: the association between interhemispheric disconnection and an anterograde amnesia syndrome].
INTRODUCTION: Sperry, or interhemispheric disconnection, syndrome was reported in patients who had undergone surgical section of the corpus callosum carried out in an attempt to control medication-resistant epilepsy. It has occasionally been linked to tumours of the corpus callosum and, although even more rarely, it has also been associated to an amnesic syndrome. In this paper we report the anatomical and neuropsychological findings in a patient with interhemispheric disconnection syndrome associated to a hippocampal-type amnesic syndrome, caused by a tumour in the splenius of the corpus callosum that extended into the fornix. CASE REPORT: A 52-year-old white male who visited because of loss of memory; on admission to hospital the physical examination revealed a certain degree of asomatognosia with regard to the left-hand side of the body. An axial tomography brain scan showed a dense central lesion in the brain that extended laterally and occluded the body of both lateral ventricles. A biopsy study revealed an undifferentiated astrocytoma that affected the corpus callosum and the fornix. CONCLUSIONS: Sperry, or interhemispheric disconnection, syndrome produced by a tumour in the splenius of the corpus callosum is very likely to course with an amnesic syndrome due to disconnection caused by destruction of the fornix. This association, which characterised our patient's clinical picture, has only previously been described in three cases.
Amnesia, Anterograde↗
[Study, using non-invasive methods, of prostheses manufactured at the Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez].
We study the phonocardiogram, M mode, two-dimensional and Doppler pulsed echocardiogram of 30 patients, who underwent implantation of a bovine pericardial bioprosthesis manufactured at the Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez. We describe 26 patients with prosthesis in mitral position, 22 females and 4 males, with age between 19 to 60 years. After surgery, 22 were in functional I and 2 in class II of the New York Heart Association Criteria. Two patients (6.6%) died of extracardiac complications. Phonocardiogram: Mitral prosthesis closing click (MPCC) were recorded at all, the interval Q wave-MPCC was of 0.09 +/- 0.02 sec. The interval second sound-mitral prosthesis opening click (S2-MPOC) measured 0.10 +/- 0.01 sec. Mid-diastolic murmur were recorded in 8 patients (30.7%). The O-F slope of the apexcardiogram was of 82 +/- 40 mm/sec. Ten patients had tricuspid insufficiency. Echocardiogram: The D-E velocity of mitral prosthesis opening was of 318 +/- 99 mm/sec and the E-F slope velocity of 15 +/- 6.2 mm/sec. All patients except one showed paradoxical motion of the intraventricular septum. The prosthesis stents distance was of 14.1 +/- 2 mm, the internal diameter of 17.8 +/- 2.9 mm and the valvular area was calculated in 2.5 +/- 0.08 cm2. The flow velocity/diameter was 62.6 +/- 26.8 cm/sec/mm and the flow velocity/opening area of 52.5 +/- 26.1 cm/sec/cm2.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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[Dynamic and cinematic evaluation of the function of bioprosthesis in the aortic position: tester of cardiac valves].
Twenty four pericardial valvular prostheses were tested in a valvular tester device. The valves considered were: 12 valves of the model that has being already in clinical use, manufactured in the Instituto Nacional de Cardiología "Ignacio Chávez", (INC II) and 12 valves of a model in an experimental stage, (PRT I.) The inner diameter in the two group considered were: 17, 19 and 21 mm. All the valves were tested in the aortic position in the valvular tester device. Behavior of the valvular prostheses were examined at various rates of pulsation, 60, 77, 105 and 159 per minute, with an ejection volume of 70 and 80 ml (range of flows between 4200 and 12720 ml min1). The pressure of the ventricular and aortic cameras were registered continuously, by external transducers, and in the other hand, the kinetic of the valves and the degree of opening were evaluated for direct view trough an special window. The grade of incompetence was too evaluated and expressed in percent of the stroke volume. The transvalvular pressure gradient was lower in INC II model valves, specially at moderate and high flows, and at same time had a largest functional area. The degree of incompetence was higher in the 19 and 21 mm diameter valvular subgroups than the same subgroups in the PRT I model. In relation to the 17 mm subgroup, significant differences were not find. The use of the valvular tester showed a basic utility in the hydrodynamic evaluation of the news bioprostheses design, and so in the quality control of the valves than has being manufacturing.
Aortic Valve↗