Laparoscopic Approach to Inguinal Disruption in Athletes: a Retrospective 13-Year Analysis of 198 Patients in a Single-Surgeon Setting.

Background: Inguinal disruption (ID) is a condition of chronic groin pain affecting mainly athletes. ID cannot be defined as a true hernia. Pathogenesis is multifactorial due to repetitive and excessive forces applied to the inguino-pelvic region.

[Late post-traumatic diaphragmatic hernia: unusual cause of colonic occlusion].

Traumatic diaphragmatic rupture is not an uncommon problem, particularly in the last few years because of the increasing number of road accidents, improved diagnostic techniques and resuscitation techniques after serious traumas. In a certain number of cases, post-traumatic diaphragmatic hernias may become clinically manifest only months or years after thoracic or abdominal trauma and are still a challenge to surgeons because of the vague clinical symptoms and the diagnostic difficulties involved. The Authors report a case of acute colon occlusion due to diaphragmatic hernia 24 months after thoraco-abdominal trauma.

[Small bowel diverticula in adults: clinical and therapeutic features. Report of 2 cases and review of the literature].

The true diverticula of the small bowell are a very rare observation in clinical practice; they have a malformative origin and, occasionally, are acquired, contrary to what observed in the colon, where they are frequently an acquired pathology. They can involve the small bowel as a single lesion (Meckel's diverticulum), or as a segmentary disease (duodenal diverticula), or as a diffused diverticulosis. Generally they are asymptomatic and rarely they produce a true pathology.

Correlation between disc potency and zone size in temafloxacin activity in vitro.

A multi-test disc potency evaluation of a new fluoroquinolone, temafloxacin, has been prepared in order to evaluate the variation of the zone dimension with the disc antibiotic concentration. A direct correlation between these parameters has been demonstrated. All pathogens have been isolated in hospitalized patients.

Prostacyclin effect on heart rate in the pig.

The purpose of this study was to assess the hemodynamic response after prostacyclin infusion into the venous system and into the carotid artery in the pig. During the study the following circulatory variables were studied: mean systemic arterial pressure, mean pulmonary arterial pressure, wedge pressure, heart rate, cardiac output, systolic and diastolic left ventricular pressure, stroke volume, total systemic resistance, total pulmonary resistance, left ventricular stroke work. Our results confirm that prostacyclin is a powerful hypotensive agent.