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G Altaca

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Stone disease in kidney transplantation.

The aim of this study was to evaluate etiologic, diagnostic, and management aspects of stone disease in renal transplant recipients and donors. Calculi from five patients were analyzed. The immunosuppressive regimen included tacrolimus or cyclosporine, mycophenolate mofetil, and corticosteroids in all cases. The etiology of the stone disease was cadaveric donor-gifted in one patient and de novo stone formation after transplantation in two patients. Additionally, stone disease was found and treated in living related donors in two patients. The mean follow-up was 32.4 +/- 19.7 months. In the living related donors, stones were initially treated by ESWL. Pyelotomy at the back table during the transplantation was required in one of them. The patient with cadaver-gifted stone was also treated by ESWL. In patients with de novo stone formation after transplantation, the stones were related to urinary infections and foreign body double-j (JJ) stent. A small stone in one of these patients (de novo formation) passed spontaneously after removal of the foreign body. Endoscopical lithotripsy was performed in the other patient. Stones are more frequently transplanted with allografts than expected; therefore, preoperative imaging of the donor is important. ESWL is recommended for medium-sized calculi in transplant kidneys. JJ stent insertion before ESWL might be needed in stones larger than 10 mm.

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Risk factors affecting the mortality in acute gastric mucosal lesions.

Forty-five patients with acute gastric mucosal lesions (AGML), operated on in a 15-year period (1976-1990) were retrospectively analyzed to assess the factors affecting the mortality. The operative mortality rate was 37.78%. Univariate and multivariate analysis were done to demonstrate if any of the previously derived set of 15 clinical variables was related to the operative mortality. The clinical variables used were age, sex, indication of initial hospitalization, hypotension, recent operation, NSAID use, AGML prophylaxis, transfusion, recent upper Gl bleeding, concurrent major medical illness, concurrent sepsis, type of operation, postoperative complication, rebleeding, and reoperation for AGML. Mean age, major medical illness, postoperative complication, rebleeding, and reoperation were found to affect the prognosis according to the univariate analysis. Only postoperative complication and concurrent major medical illness were significant factors affecting the mortality when multivariate analysis was done. Further analysis showed that concurrent major medical illness and initial indication of hospitalization were the significant factors among the studied variables affecting the postoperative complication rate. The type of operation did not alter the prognosis.

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Diffuse cavernous rectal hemangioma--clinical appearance, diagnostic modalities and sphincter saving approach to therapy: report of 2 and a collective review of 79 cases.

Two cases of diffuse cavernous haemangioma of the rectum are reported and a thorough review of the world literature with a sum of 79 patients is done. We advocate low anterior resections for the treatment of this disease; sleeve resections are not necessary, since the recurrent bleeding and complication rates are not statistically different from the low anterior resections without mucosal stripping.

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