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J Kubícek

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[Evaluation of statistical tables in surgery using a computer].

The authors describe the possibility to use a computer in surgery for evaluation of classification tables of child injuries and the six-month report on the activity of policlinical and in-patient surgical departments. The solution of the problem was elaborated using system DOS-RV on a SM 4/20 computer.

Child

Pyrophosphate scintigraphy and other non-invasive methods in the detection of cardiac involvement in some systemic connective tissue diseases.

Thirteen patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, 8 patients with polymyositis, and 6 patients with spondylitis ankylopoetica (Bechterew's disease) underwent clinical cardiologic examination and scintigraphy of the myocardium (99mTc-pyrophosphate), ECG, echocardiography, polygraphy, and their blood pressure was taken. The aim of the study was to ascertain how such a combination of non-invasive examinations can help in recognizing a cardiac involvement. In systemic lupus erythematosus cases one or more positive findings were revealed in 9 patients (69%), in 4 patients all examinations were negative (31%). Four patients (50%) with polymyositis had positive findings. In patients with spondylitis ankylopoetica positive findings occurred in 2 cases (33%). The study has shown that a combination of non-invasive cardiologic methods increases the probability of detecting cardiac involvement in systemic connective tissue diseases.

Cardiomyopathies

Scintigraphic detection of experimental myocardial infarction with 99mTc-heparin in the dog.

Experimental infarctions were produced in 12 dogs by ligation of the Ramus interventricularis anterior of the left coronary artery, and their uptake of 99mTc-heparin was measured 7, 24 and 48 h as well as 7 days thereafter by recording an in vivo chest scintigram 4 h after intravenous injection of the compound. The dogs were subsequently killed, the heart removed and an in vitro scintigram obtained. Finally, the uptake of the compound was measured in tissue samples. The results indicate that 99mTc-heparin is accumulated in lesions which are not older than 24 h. At the other points in time uptake is low but even 24-h old lesions cannot be demonstrated reliably. The results are impaired by the high blood activity on the cardiac chambers and by the background activity of the lungs. In general, 99mTc-heparin has less useful properties than the more frequently employed 99mTc-pyrophosphate so that a change of procedure is not to be recommended.

Animals

The sensitivity of scintigraphic myocardial imaging by the use of 99mTc-labelled pyrophosphate in the diagnosis of cardiomyopathy of various etiology.

A total of 10 patients were examined. In five children who suffered from secondary cardiomyopathy accompanying progressive muscular dystrophy scintigraphic examination of the myocardium was made using 99mTc-labelled pyrophosphate. In two cases the scan was distinctly positive, in three cases negative. Five men with poorly defined primary nonobstructive cardiomyopathy were examined too. The scan was positive in three cases and negative in two cases. The positivity of the pyrophosphate scan of the heart is therefore not pathonomonic of ischaemic damage. An increased accumulation of pyrophosphate in the myocardium in cardiomyopathy indicates an acute phase of the disease.

Adolescent