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Ermina Mujicić

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[Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis in a child].

The report deals with the case of a 10-year-old girl with chronic cystic fibrosis. She has been repeatedly treated at the hospital. She has been hospitalized due to respiratory deterioration. Cystic fibrosis is a rare disease, inherited autosomaly recessively, but is very complex in terms of diagnostic and treatment. Fibrosis is the formation of scar tissue due to injury or long term inflammation. The diagnosis is confirmed based on a clinical picture of the child, measure of Chloride in the sweat, chest X-ray, CT thorax, laboratory findings--genetic confirmation CFTR genes. The diagnosis is originally set when she was 4 years old. She is now admitted due to a deterioration of the main disease. Five days before the admission, the girl had a higher bodily temperature, cough and difficult breathing. Due to the deteriorated general condition and the respiratory insufficiency and respiratory acidosis in blood gas analysis, the girl was intubated and put on the complete mechanical ventilation (IPPV). Since the girl is a chronic patient with bronchiectasie chronic walls of bronchi changes full of the mucus, who is not responding to conservative treatment (antibiotics), therapeutic and diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy had to be performed, resulting in a gram-negative bacteri Pseudomonas aeruginosa--a typical bacteri for chronically sick C. F. patient. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is typically acquired in early childhood. This bacteria is giving progressive lung disease and often aggravates morbidity and mortality. So the main thing as a respiratory management is prevention of lung infection with this bacteria. A Pseudomonas therapy was prescribed according to the sensitive antibiogram, (Garamycin). Antibiotics are crucial to treating cystic fibrosis lung infections. Therapy with an amynoglicoside in combination with a B-lactam or a quinolone antibiotic is standard. It is a difficult to deliver a high doses at these antibiotics via the iv. route without significant systemic adverse events (otoxicity and nephrotoxicity). A reformulation of the aminoglycoside antibiotic tobramicin or garamycin therapy is solution for inhalation. To be well established infections the suppression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been shown to lead to decreasing same bacteria and benefits lung function from antibiotic therapy in a way that can be maintained over extended period. During bronchoscopy was given locally on changes mucous pulmozyme (to destroy a very hard mucous) and garamycin. So, after taking out a lot of mucus, it was later continued spontaneously. Control chest x ray and blood gas analysis are now very improved.

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[Influence of CO2 pneumoperitoneum on liver function].

CO2 pneumoperitoneum is an insuflication of CO2 into abdominal cavity in order to enable visulation of organs, and easier manipulation with instruments during laparoscopic surgery. Pressure that is being used is between 12 to 20 mmHg, but it is usually 14 mmHG, and it is higher than a pressure in the port system, which is between 7 to 10 mmHG. This causes changes in activity of AST, ALT and bilirubin during the laparoscopic surgery. In this research we have had two groups of 30 patients that had laparoscopic holecystectomy (researched group) and laparoscopic (control group) surgical technique. We have had compared values of activity for AST, ALT and bilirubin before and after the surgeries (after 6, 24, 48 and 72 hours). We concluded that changes of activity for AST, ALT and bilirubin during laparoscopic surgery are more outstanding with higher degree of significance than what happened during laparotomic surgery. Changes are of transitory nature and after 72 hours they return to the preoperative values.

Adult↗

[Pancreas and laparoscopy].

UNLABELLED: Number of studies were performed about pneumoperitoneum effect formed during laparoscopic surgery to the function of thoraco-abdomininal organs. However, studies about influence of pneumoperitoneum to the pancreas function are very rare. This is just what this study is about. Two groups of patients are included in the study: examined group of about 30 patients who had holecistectomy performed by laparoscopic surgery technique, and the control group (30 patients) who had holecistectomy performed by the laparotomic technique. Activity of the pancreas amylases was controlled 2, 6, 24, 48 and 72 hours, for the patients from both groups, before and after the surgery. CONCLUSION: After statistic analysis of gained data it was not possible to prove that pneumoperitoneum with a pressure of 15 mmHg has influence to the excretory pancreas function.

Amylases↗

[Rupture of interventricular septum as consequence of diaphragmatic heart infarct].

Patient, with massive heart attack of the hart's lower wall which happened six months ago, and consequent rupture of the ventricular septum, 1.2 cm of size, next to the left to right shunt, and development of aneurisms at the place of heart attack (4.2 cm x 2.9 cm), is admitted in our Clinic. Weakening signs of the right heart are present with retention of the liquid, edemas and ascites. After a long preoperative preparation graft on CX is being performed, reconstruction of aneurisms of the left verticle, and VSD being reconstructed with Dacron's patch. Postoperative flow is extended with occurrence of profusely diarrhea and existence of a smaller pericardial effusion, but status of the patient is improving, and he is being dismissed home in a satisfactory general condition.

Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction↗