Results of triple valve replacement: perioperative mortality and long term results.

Between 1970 and 1984, 37 patients underwent simultaneous triple valve replacement by the same surgeon, all for rheumatic valve disease. Björk-prosthesis were used for aortic, Starr, Björk or St. Jude for mitral and bioprosthesis for tricuspid replacements.

[What is the potential number of indications for liver grafts in France per year?].

The progress recently made in liver transplantation requires an estimation of the potential number of cases per year in France. The study of French Death Rate per age group, compared with either formal, discutable or aleatory indications of transplantation, is a valuable basis for that calculation. It confirms the relative scarcity of the potential number of liver transplantations, which can be estimated at between 2 or 3 per year and per million inhabitants.

[Peroperative radiotherapy. Initial experience at the Red Cross Hospital].

Intra operative radiation therapy is a new look at an old idea (Rich). In relation with the first experience at the Croix-Rousse Hospital with orthovoltage, a review of technical choices, surgical problems, and biological questions is presented. The analysis of literature about accumulated clinical results suggest that local control in recurrence, residual, or inoperable tumor can be obtained by combined surgery IOR, and external beam irradiation.