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[Surgical treatment in ulcerative rectocolitis . Analysis of a 24 years experience of 50 patients].

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease that may be cured by surgery being indicated for emergency situations resulting from complications of fulminant disease and for elective indications. We analyzed the last 24 years experience regarding 50 patients surgically treated for ulcerative colitis in the Center of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation of Fundeni Clinical Institute. The indications for surgery were: failure of medical treatment in 22 patients, acute disease with complications in 20, chronic complications in 8 cases. We used the following surgical procedures: total proctocolectomy in all 2 cases with associated rectal cancer, total colectomy with ileo-rectal anastomosis (one staged or two staged procedures) in 31, and restorative proctocolectomy in 17 cases (in all cases as a 2 or 3 staged procedure). In acute disease with complications we have performed total colectomy with terminal ileostomy, closure of the rectal stump, or exteriorization of the sigmoid stump in a mucous fistula. The gravity of acute complications does not justify the use of palliative procedures such as ileostomy, colostomy or Hartmann procedure because the mortality rate of these operations is higher than the postoperative mortality rate of total colectomy performed in emergency. Even in the elective surgery, when the patients are in a poor condition, nutritionally depleted, taking large doses of steroids or immunosuppressive drugs, we prefer the staged procedure. Total proctocolectomy is performed only in the cases of ulcerative colitis associated with rectal cancer, severe perianal disease, sphincter incontinence. Total colectomy with ileo-rectal anastomosis is indicated when the rectal stump has minimal inflammatory lesions. Restorative proctocolectomy is the surgery of choice for UC, the functional results being comparable with those of total colectomy with ileo-rectal anastomosis, but having the advantage of curing the disease. The global mortality rate was 12% (6 patients).

Anastomosis, Surgical↗

[Cardiac involvement in spondylarthropathies].

Cardiac involvement is a real manifestation of spondylarthropathies and include specially aortic regurgitation and conduction troubles. We present a prospective open study of fifty patients with spondylarthropathy (responded to Amor criteria) in order to evaluate the frequency of cardiac involvement, to see its type and if we can evaluate a group of patients able to this complication. We have included forty-four men and six women with a mean age of 38 years. The disease evolve for 8.8 years in mean. Ag HLA B27 was present in 70% of the cases. Thirty patients have ankylosing spondylitis, although twenty have a secondary spondylarthropathy: psoriasic rheumatism (12 cases), inflammatory bowel disease: Crohn's disease (4 cases), RCH (three cases) and Fiessenger le Roy-Reiter syndrome in one case. All the patients have had a cardiac check up with research of clinical cardiac manifestation, thoracic chest, trans-thoracic echographi, Halter rhythmic done in five cases only. Cardiac involvement is found in five cases (10%): aortic regurgitation in 3 cases (6%) and mitral regurgitation in 2 cases (4%). These valvular disease are well tolerated.

Adolescent↗

[Cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitors and colorectal cancer].

Cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox2) is an inductible isoenzyme of cyclooxygenase undetectable in normal colonic mucosa and overexpressed in 80% colonic tumor. Several works in vitro and in vivo showed that Cox2 plays a key role in the multistep process of colorectal tumorigenesis such apoptosis inhibition of cellular proliferation and angiogenesis induction. So that Cox2 represent a potential molecular target in colorectal management and specific Cox2 inhibitors may be useful as chemopreventive as well as therapeutic agent in humans. In animals study Cox2 inhibitors was shown to be effective and in humans Cox2 inhibitors are approved by the Food and Drug Administration as an adjunct to endoscopic surveillance and surgery in patients with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP). The purpose of this article is to review the relationship between Cox2\Cox2 inhibitors and differents signaling pathways of colorectal carcinogenesis and to precise their possible molecular mechanisms of action. This work although review clinicals data of their efficacy as chemopreventive agent as well as therapeutic in the differents group at risk for colorectal cancer.

Adenomatous Polyposis Coli↗