Publications by authors named "Edda Caputo"
Article Synopsis
- - Ovarian cancer is highly lethal, but combining cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (IPC), along with intraperitoneal epinephrine, may improve patient survival rates.
- - A study analyzed 124 patients with advanced serous epithelial ovarian cancer, revealing a median overall survival of 60.8 months and median disease-free survival of 21.2 months, with certain factors affecting these outcomes.
- - The treatment resulted in a manageable complication rate, with 27.42% experiencing significant surgical issues, but low rates of renal toxicity and mortality, suggesting the approach is both effective and relatively safe.
Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), a strategy combining maximal cytoreductive surgery and maximal regional chemotherapy, has been applied to treat ovarian cancer resulting in long-term survival rates in selected patients. However, the status of HIPEC in ovarian cancer remains an experimental procedure, given the many variables among the data and trials reviewed, to enable us to derive strong conclusions about its role from this overview. In this review we discuss treatment with HIPEC in patients with ovarian cancer and future prospective of its use in clinical setting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The clinical value of super-extended lymph node dissection (D2(+) ) is still debated. This procedure has not been reported using the laparoscopic or robotic approach. Although this technique, in low-volume centres, could lead to an increased risk of morbidity, in high-volume centres morbidity and mortality are similar to those of the standard D2 lymphadenectomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The AA report a case of a patient with acute abdomen caused by intestinal Anisakiasis, a fish-transmitted infection that results from ingestion of raw or improperly cooked fish contaminated by live larvae of Anisakis Simplex, a round worm from the order of Ascaridida.
Material And Methods: A 33-year-old man, presented to the emergency room with severe upper abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, without fever. The patient revealed that he had eaten pickled anchovies a few days before.
Objective: Ileal carcinoids diagnosis, generally, is late because patients have aspecific symptoms.
Material Of Study: The two cases described presented for a long time peristaltic abdominal pains, vomit episodes and reduction of weight, with negativity of radiologic reports. The first diagnosis was adhesion syndrome produced by previous abdominal surgical operation; just emergency surgical operation executed for intestinal occlusion noticed carcinoids, located into the distal ileum, which infiltrated muscular wall and interested regional lymph nodes.