L-arginine action in cutaneous flap evolution under nicotine exposure in rats.

Objective: To evaluate whether treatment with L-arginine influences the healing of skin flaps in rats exposed to nicotine.

Methods: 40 male Wistar rats weighing 142.4 ± 10.

[Analysis of liver waiting list mortality in Paraná, Brazi: what shall we do to face organ shortage?].

Background: Orthotopic liver transplantation is the best therapeutic modality for patients with end stage of liver disease. Minimization of death, while waiting for the procedure, involves accurate priorization according to clinical status and appropriate allocation of donor livers.

Aim: The mortality analysis in the liver waiting list in Paraná state, PR, Brazil.

[The first dual left lobe adult-to-adult liver transplantation in Brazil].

Living donor liver transplantation expanded the therapeutic possibilities for liver failure patients. The necessary correct match between the liver mass donated and received sometimes limits its use. A case that was used two left liver grafts from adult living donors is reported.

Action of tacrolimus in arginine induced experimental acute pancreatitis.

Objective: To determine whether tacrolimus administered to rats, in the presence of pancreatitis induced by L-Arginine, interferes with the serum levels of amylase and glucose and the histological pattern of the pancreatic parenchyma.

Methods: Forty Wistar rats were divided into four groups with 10 rats each: control group (C), tacrolimus group (T), pancreatitis group (P) and pancreatitis-tacrolimus group (PT). We evaluated serum levels of amylase, glucose, and tacrolimus and made histological assessments of the pancreas.

[Experience with 100 pancreas transplants].

Report our experience with 100 pancreas transplants performed in a period of seven years. METHODS. Between January 2001 and January 2008, 100 patients underwent pancreatic transplantation at our center, 88 simultaneous pancreas kidney transplantation (SPK) and 12 pancreas transplantation alone (PTA).

Successful endovascular management of a traumatic aortic rupture in a pediatric patient: case report and literature review.

We report herein an 11-year-old pedestrian struck by a motorcycle, who suffered subdural hematoma and aortic rupture and developed traumatic pseudoaneurysm. He was treated conservatively for the first 24 hours and submitted to stent placement occluding the aneurysm neck. There were no recurrences in the post-procedure period and the child was discharged after 21 days without sequelae.

Conservative management of a grade V renal trauma associated with a grade III hepatic lesion: is it possible?

Conservative management of solid abdominal organ injuries has been increasing and challenging trauma surgeons. This case report describes a successful non-operative management of a grade V renal lesion associated to a grade III hepatic lesion. Such lesions have not been described in conjunction in the revised literature.