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A Pasqualucci

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[Herpes Zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia: everything to revise?].

The treatment and prevention of the algic symptomatology of Post-Herpetic Neuralgia (PHN) are problems still to be solved. In our opinion the reason of this failure is to be found in an insufficient knowledge of the pathophysiological phenomena which cause the PHN. In fact, many fundamental aspects, such as its "temporal" and symptomatological definition and its pathogenesis are still unsolved. This revision tries to focus the problems and discrepancies hindering an improvement in PHN treatment and prevention. The literature reports three different symptomatological levels after herpes zoster acute phase: patients affected by pain and/or allodynia, patients with "abnormal sensations" (anesthesia, paresthesia, dysesthesia, prickling, itching, burning, etc.,) and patients in "complete recovery". Only two studies have analyzed the final incidence of these symptomatologies. Therefore, it is absolutely unclear whether the patients in "abnormal sensations", that is with a symptomatology which is definitely less weakening than pain, have to be considered in PHN (patients with pain) or in "complete recovery". On the contrary, from a clinical and physiopathological point of view this symptomatological difference may have a great importance: the symptomatological non-distinction could be the cause of the disagreement concerning PHN incidence data; this distinction could differentiate and compare in a reliable way the effects of the various therapies reported in the literature. The lack of a symptomatological classification does not facilitate a verification of the physiopathological hypothesis of PHN onset and maintenance. The differentiation among pain, "abnormal sensations" and "complete recovery" could correlate these three symptomatological conditions to the anatomopathological and viral data which according to literature characterize the evolution of Herpes Zoster acute phase in PHN. This would largely help to improve the therapeutic strategy.

Herpes Zoster↗
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[Effects of age, body weight, and ventilatory pattern on the difference between arterial and end-tidal PCO2].

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of physiological ventilatory patterns on P(a-ET)CO2 gradient and on the alveolar dead space production during controlled mechanical ventilation. DESIGN: Prospective and experimental comparison among three different ventilatory settings in three different groups of subjects. SETTING: General surgery's operating-theatre in university hospital. PATIENTS: Twenty-eight patients subdivided randomly in 3 groups differing for ventilatory setting. I group: constant tidal volume (VC = 8 ml.kg-1) and 3 different respiratory frequencies (f = 10, 12 and 14 breaths.min-1); II group: constant ventilation (112 ml.kg-1) but VC and f modified in three different ways; III group: inspiratory volume was set to give an end-tidal PCO2 (PETCO2) of about 35 mmHg. The cases were subdivided, on the basis of P(a-ET)CO2 distribution, in three groups: group with values larger than mean plus 1 standard deviation, group with values between +/- 1 standard deviation and group with values lower than mean minus 1 standard deviation. Moreover in two homogeneous groups for age. INTERVENTIONS: General surgery but not important because measures were performed before surgical manoeuvres. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Anthropometrical data (age and body weight), PaCO2, PETCO2, heart rate, invasive arterial pressure, ventilatory parameters and airway pressure were collected for every subject and ventilatory setting; arterial to end-tidal difference P(a-ET)CO2 and P(a-ET)CO2.PaCO2(-1) were calculated during data analysis. The P(a-ETFCO2 and P(a-ET)CO2.PaCO2(-1) values were not significantly different among the three different ventilatory patterns both in the first and in the second group. P(a-ET)CO2 values were significantly correlated with age, body weight and airway pressure. These parameters were correlated significantly also with P(a-ET)CO2.PaCO2(-1) values. CONCLUSIONS: Ventilatory setting, used in a normal physiological range, don't affect P(a-ET)CO2 difference during mechanical ventilation. Age, body weight and airway pressure of the patient must be considered to obtain a correct value of PaCO2 by the measure of PETCO2.

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[Trans-umbilical cholecystectomy: a new laparoscopic cholecystectomy technique. Description of the technique and preliminary results].

The aim of videolaparo-cholecystectomy is to achieve a good results with minimal surgical trauma. Recently there has been an evolution of this technique toward the progressive reduction of trauma with an improvement of the results, also from the aesthetical point of view. In this article we describe our new videolaparo-cholecystectomy technique. Trans-umbilical videolaparo-cholecystectomy represents a variant of the traditional technique. This new method allows the operation to perform with only two trocars positioned in the peritoneum cavity through only one umbilical incision. The technical innovation of this method consists of the substitution of the others trocars, utilized in the traditional technique, with an equal number of trans-parietal suspension wires. Up to now, we have given 95 patients this kind of operation being successful in 67% of the cases. We think that this new technique, requiring as it does only standard laparoscopic instruments, is in accordance with the philosophy of mini-invasive surgery. The suspension wires are responsible for minimal bile spreading which is not an important complication if the surgeon performs an accurate and through cleaning of the abdominal cavity at the end of the surgical procedure. The patient better accepts this technique because of its better aesthetical results. In spite of this there should be more evaluable data about trans-umbilical videolaparo-cholecystectomy especially about the incidence of post-operatory complications.

Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic↗