Modulation of adenosine deaminase activity of endothelial cells by steroids.
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Adenosine Deaminase↗
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I Paun
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[Esophagoplasty with right ileocolon, technical problems].
The authors present their experience with 14 cases of esophagoplasty by right ileocolon interposition which were performed to re-establish the digestive continuity in 12 patients operated on for caustic burns induced esophageal strictures and 2 patients with esophageal neoplasm managed by esophagectomy. The current study aims to pin/point both the anastomotic risk and the technical difficulties related to the colon interposition graft anatomic trajectory and vascular supply. Given the utmost importance of both the preoperative correction of the nutritional deficit and the improvement of pulmonary function the authors suggest that esophagoplasty should bu preceded by a "preoperative intervention", consisting of ileocolic artery ligation, gastrostomy and pleural drainage. The acute respiratory failure was the immediate main threat following esophagoplasty, whereas cervical anastomotic breakdown was the complication which dominated the early postoperative period in terms of frequency and gravity, but the death rate was nil. When esophagoplasty by right ileocolon interposition simplicity and efficacy are taken into account it appears as the surgical therapy of choice whenever the local and general status of the patients allows it.
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[Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors in the treatment of gastro-duodenal ulcer].
The authors present the results of treatment with acetazolamide of gastroduodenal ulcer (356 gastric ulcer, 1.250 duodenal ulcers--859 with craters--, 24 pyloric stenosi with functional components, and 42 postgastrectomy peptic ulcers). The acetazolamide was administed in daily dosis of 25-30 mg/kg of body weight, sodium and potassium salts were added, and the liquid intake was increased (approx. 2 1 daily). A control was kept of the clinical, secretory, radiological, enzymological, and hydrolectrolytical modification. A decrease is observed of the in the carbonic anhidrase of the gastric mucosa and of the gastric secretion. There is also an increase in the gastric protection factors and a disappearance of ulcer pain. There are no significant hydroelectrolytic modifications of the blood. From a radiogical point of view, the crater of the postoperative gastric, pyloric and peptic ulcer disappears after 2 weeks of treatment, and in duodenal ulcers in 89% of the cases in 3 weeks. The method is the same time a quick, simple, an efficient therapeutic test for the differentiation of the gastric craters. The drug is well tolerated. Nevertheless a clinical, secretory and radiological control of the patients is necessary taking into account the counter-indication for the administration of acetazolamide.
Acetazolamide↗