Biomedical subjects

O Karg

Publications and source records attributed to O Karg.

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PubMed1991

[Fibrin-coated collagen fleece in thoracic surgery. Initial clinical experience].

After resecting procedures to the parenchyma of the lung the resection site was sealed with a collagen vleece combined with fibrin glue in 26 patients. No patient exhibited rebleeding. An air leak was present up to the first postoperative day in 19 patients, up to the third postoperative day in 5 patients. In two patients, duration of air leak extended beyond the third postoperative day, this was defined as therapeutic failure. The use of collagen vleece combined with fibrin glue represents a valuable contribution in thoracic surgery.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1990

[Preoperative autologous blood donation in thoracic surgery].

The donation by the patient of two units of his own blood shortly before (on average on the 9th and 7th day) scheduled major surgery on the chest is feasible in 70 to 80% of patients. In our group (n = 170) it resulted in a highly significant reduction in the use of banked blood units: a 76% reduction vis-a-vis the number of units transfused in a group operated on in the previous year and comprising comparable patients receiving comparable procedures, in whom no autologous blood was administered. The procedure is cost-effective.

Blood Transfusion, Autologous↗

PubMed1990

[Artificial respiration of patients with status asthmaticus--clinical course, complications and follow-up].

In a retrospective analysis the clinical data of 33 patients ventilated for asthma bronchiale, were compared. Hypercapnia was the most frequent indication for ventilation. Average duration of ventilation was 7.7 days. The incidence of complications was high, infections and neurological disturbances being particularly frequent. Mortality was 18%.

Asthma↗

PubMed1989

Bronchoscopic photodynamic therapy of bronchial carcinoma.

Photodynamic therapy with photosensitizers is a new method of treating malignant tumors. In the area of bronchoscopy it is employed for the selective therapy of early carcinomas at central localizations. We report on our first attempts at treatment with hematoporphyrin derivative in an inoperable patient. The modalities of irradiation and the recurrence-free progress of, to date, 2.5 years, are described.

Bronchoscopy↗

PubMed1988