POSTOPERATIVE ARTERIAL RELAXATION AND INTRAOPERATIVE VENOUS DILATION AS INTERCONNECTED PROGNOSTIC FACTORS FOR THE MATURATION OF ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULAS.

Aim: To investigate if immediate arterial distention can be used as a predictive factor for the development of a good fistula.

Material And Methods: Over a 5-months period (January- May 2015) all the patients who underwent an arteriovenous fistula between the radial artery and the cephalic vein of the forearm at the Second Surgical Clinic of the Iasi Regional Cancer Institute and were willing to participate were enrolled in the study. The diameters of the vessels were measured 1 hour and 8 weeks after surgery.

Clinical-epidemiological study on advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

Aim: To assess the clinical and epidemiological features of all three main histological types of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Materials And Methods: The study included 34 patients with NSCLC admitted to specialized units of the Iasi Regional Cancer Institute (IRCI) in the interval May 2012 - May 2014. Data were collected electronically based on a clinical-epidemiological survey form.

[Unique monoblock lung right-left, unique pleural cavity].

A 34-year-old female with WPW syndrome has been under surgical treatment in our clinic with left basal chronic pleural empyema. During the surgical intervention multiple anatomical anomalies were detected, like unique pleural cavity, monoblock lung left-right, hypoplasic left lung, no scissures on the left side, no left pulmonary arteria with an aberrant arteria for the left lung derived from the right pulmonary arteria, the same for the bronchis. The pleural-pulmonary shelling proceeded without incidents and it has been finalized with the drainage of the whole pleural cavity.

[Surgical treatment of lung hydatid cysts].

Unlabelled: Lungs represent the econd most common localization of hydatidosis, after liver. The current treatment for pulmonary hydatid cyst (PHC) is complete excision with maximum preservation of lung tissue. The authors emphasize the particularities of diagnosis and surgical treatment of PHC.

[Giant diaphragmatic hemangiopericytoma. A case report].

A 47-year-old man presented with dyspnea and pain in the right lower thorax. The thoracic radiography and the MRI exam were suggestive for a giant tumor located in the right supradiaphragmatic region. Surgical exploration revealed a diaphragmatic pediculated tumor, hyper-vascularised, weighting 4.

[Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)--an uncommon cause of bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax].

LAM, a rare lung disease typically affecting women of reproductive age, is characterized by abnormal proliferation of smooth--muscle cells and progressive loss of pulmonary function due to destruction of lung parenchyma. Two cases of bilateral successive recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax and haemoptysis are presented. Repeated conventional and video-assisted surgery was required in both cases, for drainage of the recurrent pneumothorax and resection of subpleural bulla, with good immediate postoperative evolution.

[Up-to-date indications for surgery in pleural and pulmonary tuberculosis].

Tuberculosis is an "old disease" but still remains a threat in modern days life. Despite human and material efforts, despite the improvements in drug therapy, the treatment of tuberculosis continue to consume a great amount of health care worldwide. A certain percentage among the patients with pleuro-pulmonary tuberculosis represents failures of DOTS therapy.