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M Rezgui

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PubMed2005

[Calcification following intradiscal injection, a continuing problem?].

INTRODUCTION: Intradiscal injection of triamcinolone hexacetonide, used to treat sciatica caused by herniated discs was discontinued after discovery that it was followed in some cases by epidural calcification. OBSERVATION: Ten years after an intradiscal injection at L4-L5, a 40 year-old man developed voluminous perivertebral, bilateral foraminal and intraductal calcifications that compressed the dural sheath. After preliminary excision, these calcifications recurred and required further excision, followed by posterior lateral grafting and osteosynthesis. DISCUSSION: Calcifications following intradiscal injections are symptomatic in 14 to 68% of cases. They require radical surgical treatment to avoid recurrence.

Adult↗
PubMed1992

[Maternal mortality at the Maternity and Neonatology Center in Rabta of Tunis from 1986 to 1989].

We studied 29 cases of maternal death occurring over a period of 3 years in the "Centre de Maternité et de Néonatologie de La Rabta-Tunis"; managed by the same staff. 42,028 live births occurred during the study years with 43,220 total births from April 24th 1986 to April 23rd 1989. The maternal mortality rate was 69 per 100,000 live births. A maternal age of under 35, nulliparity and grand multiparity were found, as is well known, to be risk factors. Maternal transfer in obstructed labour from rural maternity units raises the maternal death risk 12 times: 14 deaths out of 29 occurred in transferred patients. Haemorrhage represents a quarter of the causes of death (8 cases) while anaesthetic accidents were responsible for one in six maternal deaths. Some factors were not found such as abruptio placentae, while others such as eclampsia were reduced. We concluded that the maternal mortality rate even though it has been reduced over the last 3 decades it is still high compared with developed countries. We can cut it in half by avoiding maternal transfer in labour.

Adolescent↗