Nursing care for patients with intestinal stomas is essential for ensuring their comfort, to prevent complications and promote their overall well-being. The quality of life of the patients with stomas can vary widely depending on their ability to adapt to the new physical and emotional state, but also to social changes that came with it. Health care professionals specializing in ostomy care can provide valuable guidance and support throughout the process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis is a retrospective study of 264 intestinal stomas performed in the surgical unit of the Emergency Clinical Hospital "Bagdasar Arseni", Bucharest, within a 7-year period (2015-2021) aiming to evaluate their evolutive complications, risk factors, management and prevention strategies. Material and method. Colostomies: 218 (82.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective of this paper is to highlight the role and place of ileostomy from the perspective of the risk of anastomotic leakage (AL). Materials and method: This was a retrospective study of 74 (46.54%) low and ultra-low anterior resections from 159 cases of rectal cancer operated on in a seven-year interval (2015 - 2021).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: The aim of the study was to analyze the progression of invasive thymomas associated with myasthenia gravis, after the resection and the progression of unresectable invasive thymomas with a combined chemoradiotherapy. The study was performed on two groups of patients: 8 patients with invasive thymomas and myasthenia gravis operated at the 3rd Surgical Clinic between 1986-1999; 4 patients with unresectable invasive thymomas treated at the Radiology-Oncology Clinic by combined chemoradiotherapy, between 1993-1998. The results are presented for each group of patients, separately.
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April 2000
The radiotherapy of lung cancer with curative total doses (56-60 Gy), is limited by the presence of critical organs (esophagus, spinal cord). The use of computed TPS (Therapy Planning System) allows to the radiotherapist to calculate the values and to obtain dose distribution to the organs at risk, in the limit of biological tolerance levels. In our work, we present the calculation of the absorbed doses of Co60, at the spinal cord, at a patient with a cancer of the right lung, during irradiation.
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March 1998
In classical irradiation, the local control can be negatively influenced by the accelerated clonogenic tumoral repopulation. A modality of control of this phenomenon can be accelerated hyperfractionated irradiation. The aim of this paper is the study of the effect of this type of irradiation in soft tissue sarcomas on patients of the Radiological-Oncological Clinic Iaşi.
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May 1998
Cancer of the cervix presents an increasing incidence and mortality in advanced stages. Failure of treatment consists in local recurrence, continuation of evolution or in distant metastasis. One of the strategies of improving the treatment response is the association of radiosensitization chemotherapy with irradiation.
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