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F Suárez

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PubMed1996

[Chronic hepatitis C virus infection associated with anti-LKM 1].

A case of chronic hepatitis in a 20-year-old patient in whom hepatitis C virus infection markers and type 1 liver and kidney antimicrosome antibodies (anti-LKM 1) were detected, thereby allowing diagnosis of autoimmune type 2b hepatitis, is reported. The different types of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and the type 2a and 2b AIH are discussed as are the rejection of this terminology by some authors followed by their proposals and the therapeutic strategy to be used in these patients.

Adult↗
PubMed1993

[Pleural empyema as a complication of the sclerotherapy of esophageal varices].

We present three patients developing pleural empyema after sclerotherapy of esophagic varixes. In all of them, the presence of persistent fever syndrome following the sclerotherapy, along with radiological images of pleural overflow, were the starting point of the patient's study. In the emergency esophagogrames, the extravasation of contrast outside the esophagus could not be confirmed. The treatment, which must be started as soon as possible, was based in conservative measures (drainage, antibiotics and a proper nutrition), given the poor general condition of these patients. Despite all these measures, the prognosis is poor, with two of the three patients dying despite the administration of the treatment. In conclusion, although its frequency is very low, pleural empiema is an extremely severe complication of the sclerotherapy of esophagic varixes. If this complication is suspected, the prognosis depends on a treatment that must be started as soon as possible.

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PubMed1991

[Caroli's disease. Presentation of 8 cases studied with ERCP].

Eight patients with Caroli's Disease are presented, studied by Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) from January 1976 through January 1990. In this period of time 1,525 procedures were carried out, this entity thus representing 0.52% of patients submitted to ERCP in our population. Six patients were females, being female: male ratio 3:1. Mean age was 52 years (range: 40-75). All patients presented a clinical history of recurring episodes of abdominal pain and/or crisis of cholangitis. In the ERCP carried out in these eight patients, cystic dilatation of intrahepatic left lobe bile ducts were confirmed in five patients, dilatation generalized to both lobes in two, and affecting exclusively the right lobe in one patient.

Adult↗
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[Body temperature variations during laparoscopic cholecystectomies].

OBJECTIVE: To study changes over time in body temperature related to insufflation of CO2. PATIENTS AND METHOD: Fifty patients were randomly assigned to 2 groups of 25 to undergo cholecystectomy by either laparoscopy or laparotomy. Total intravenous anesthesia with propofol, pancuronium and fentanyl was used in both groups. Ventilation was maintained at 0.5 FiO2. Central temperature was continuously measured by a distal esophageal thermometer and results were recorded every 10 minutes in both groups. All operations lasted approximately 80 min. RESULTS: We found that temperature gradually decreased over time in both groups. In the laparotomy group the decrease reached 0.20 degree C (SD 0.03) at 80 min. During laparoscopy the temperature decrease was 0.43 degree C (SD 0.04) for the same time period. The differences were statistically significant. We observed no pathophysiologic repercussions associated with these results. CONCLUSIONS: Laparoscopic surgery, even when the abdominal cavity is not exposed to room air, induces a loss of temperature that is greater than that of laparotomy, because of insufflation of CO2 at 4 degrees C. The decrease was 0.4 degree C for every 50 l of CO2 insufflated during the study.

Anesthesia, Intravenous↗