Comparison of phenoxybenzamine and doxazosin in perioperative management of patients with pheochromocytoma.

Background: Adrenalectomy with preoperative pharmacological preparation is strongly recommended in patients diagnosed with pheochromocytoma, in order to prevent perioperative complications.

Aim: To compare phenoxybenzamine (PhB) and doxazosin (DOX) in terms of perioperative haemodynamic status in patients with pheochromocytoma, who have been prepared for adrenalectomy.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of 44 patients with pheochromocytoma (aged 16-80 years, 29 females) who underwent adrenalectomy.

The usefulness of laparoscopic adrenalectomy in the treatment of adrenal neoplasms - a single-centre experience.

Introduction: Adrenal neoplasms comprise about 10% of all tumours affecting this organ and constitute a significant, at first diagnostic and subsequently therapeutic, problem, especially since a relatively high proportion of neoplastic lesions are asymptomatic. The number of diagnosed metastases to adrenal glands is increasing. Surgical treatment involves both open surgery as well as laparoscopy.

Small bowel transplantation--harvesting technique and graft preparation in pigs.

Background: In more and more frequently occurring short bowel syndrome, requiring total parenteral nutrition therapy, the complications of the latter not seldom prevent its use. The idea of treating these patients with small bowel transplantation pushed the authors to start the program aiming at development of small bowel harvesting, preservation and transplantation technique in experimental settings. Additionally, an attempt to find which, if any, and to what extent, histological changes of the preserved bowel may be of prognostic value for the early transplant failure.