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R Moretti

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PubMed1979

The relationship between wrist-monitored motor activity and serum CPK activity in psychiatric in-patients.

Motor activity, monitored by a wrist motion transducer, was related to serum CPK activity the following morning in a group of psychiatric in-patients. In 4 of 10 patients, studied for periods exceeding one week, total 24-hour activity was significantly correlated with morning serum CPK activity. Motor activity during the night was unrelated to serum CPK activity. In a larger group of 30 patients, studied for one or two-day periods, inter-individual differences in activity level were not related to serum CPK activity, although both sex and race were significantly related to variance between subjects in that activity.

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[Intestinal occlusion caused by strangulated Morgagni-Larrey hernia: clinical case and review of the literature].

Morgagni-Larrey hernia is an infrequent, asymptomatic disease discovered by chance during routine radiological examination. It is usually congenital and non-traumatic even in adults. Nevertheless, it can cause severe disturbances when complicated. We describe a case of strangulated Morgagni-Larrey hernia in a 73-year-old lady admitted to the Emergency Room for abdominal pain, symptoms of intestinal occlusion and respiratory distress. Routine abdominal and chest x-rays revealed herniation of the stomach and transverse colon filling the entire right hemithorax with several air-fluid levels. A CT scan and a water-soluble contrast medium via a nasogastric tube confirmed the presence of the stomach and omentum in the right pleural cavity. Emergency laparotomy permitted reduction of the herniation and treatment of the diaphragmatic defect without resection.

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Goretex patch aortoplasty for coarctation in children: nuclear magnetic resonance assessment at 7 years.

From 1979 to 1990, 56 children ranging between 4 days and 16 years of age (mean 73 +/- 51 months) underwent Goretex patch aortoplasty for coarctation of the aorta. The mean weight at operation was 20.2 +/- 3.5 kg (range 3.3-42 kg). Forty-two patients had primary repair, and the remaining 14 had reoperation for recoarctation. The aorta was opened through a standard left thoracotomy, the posterior fibrous ridge was partially excised when it was prominent, and a large patch from a Goretex tube was sutured into place. The postoperative complications were as follows: paradoxical hypertension in 14 cases, massive haemorrhage due to aortic wall rupture in a diabetic child, and intestinal bleeding in 1 case. There were no early deaths and only 1 case of late death, which was not related to coarctation repair (mortality rate 1.8%). The average follow-up was 48 +/- 26 months. Continuous wave-Doppler examination at rest showed no arm-leg systolic gradient in 52 cases and a gradient of about 15 mmHg in 4 cases. Graded exercise testing showed only 1 case with an arm-leg gradient higher than 35 mmHg. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging, performed on 26 patients at a mean of 7 years from operation, showed excellent morphology and size of the aortoplasty. No cases of recoarctation or late aneurysm formation were found. We conclude that Goretex patch aortoplasty can be performed effectively and safely in children. Nuclear magnetic resonance provides high resolution imaging of the coarctation repair site.

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