Perspectives on Postmatch Fatigue From 300 Elite European Soccer Players.

Purpose: To examine the general perspectives of elite soccer players on the time course of perceived postmatch fatigue and the influence of away matches on subjective perceptions.

Methods: Adopting a cross-sectional study design, we invited 371 subjects from 14 top-division European clubs competing in the Belgian First Division A, English Premier League, French Ligue 1, Italian Serie A, Portuguese Primeira Liga, Russian Premier League, and Swiss Premier League to take part in a short survey on general issues relating to postmatch fatigue measurement and tracking in professional soccer.

Results: Three hundred male professional soccer players completed the short questionnaire.

[Aneurysm of the hepatic artery. Case report and review of the literature].

Hepatic artery aneurysms (HAAs) are considered rare even though their reports in the literature are becoming more and more frequent. The great improvement in the diagnosis of vascular diseases and the increasing incidence of atherosclerosis have resulted in a wider recognition of these pathologies. Differently from other splanchnic locations HAAs have a high risk of rupture (up to 80%) so that an aggressive treatment is required.

[Intestinal obstruction in colorectal neoplasms. Our experience with 50 cases].

From January 1985 to December 1989 in our Department 178 patients were operated for colorectal carcinomas. Fifty (28%) underwent emergency procedure for intestinal obstruction. The male-female ratio is about 1.