Use of activated recombinant Factor VII (NovoSeven) during neurosurgery.

Diffuse bleeding during neurosurgical operations is a major complication that can be difficult to control. In extreme circumstances, it may be necessary to clamp cerebral blood vessels or resect additional tissue. Both of these procedures can result in brain damage and, ultimately, in disability for the patient.

[A case of an impossible cannulation of the v. jugularis and v. subclavia in a female patient with longstanding myasthenia gravis and immunosuppressive therapy].

The report deals with a female patient presenting myasthenia gravis of 8-year duration, maintained on continuous APV, repeatedly cannulated central veins, and immunosuppressive therapy with corticosteroids--Imuran and Sandimmun. Repeated CT examination of the mediastinum fails to detect any process. The consecutive scanning is necessitated because of the impossibility to cannulate v.

[Necrosis of the tail in buffaloes].

Clinical, microbiological, and biochemical indices and X-ray examination revealed that disturbed metabolism and the development of dystrophic processes in the derma and epidermis and the last tail vertebrae were to be incriminated as predisposing factors contributing to tail necrosis. There were fissures in the epidermis, thickening of its layers, and hyperkeratosis with necrotic suppuration of the surface and deposition of detritus. After microbial contamination necrosis of the distal portion of the tail set in.

[Surgical diseases in calves and the economic losses from them during intensive fattening].

Investigations were carried out in 1982 at three calf-fattening complexes of the same type of equated conditions of growing and feeding on a total of 15 600 bull calves to establish the percent of surgical diseases and the economic losses thereof. Highest proved the share of diseases involving the bone-joint apparatus of the limbs--fractures, epiphysiolyses, arthroses, arthritis (6 per cent), the hooves (1.8 per cent), the soft tissues of the limbs--wounds, ruptures, tendinitis and tendovaginitis, bursitis, pareses and paralyses (5.

[Blood vessel studies of the tail area of the domestic buffalo].

Observations, preparations, schemes, and roentgenography were employed to investigate the location, number, size, and branching of the big arterial and venous vessels in the tail of seven buffaloes of the local breed and crosses with Murrha. It was found that the tail was strongly supplied with blood vessels in the proximal end, and was to a lesser extent supplied with blood in its distal part. The median tail artery and its branching were found to form arcs and loops.