Pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) is a radiologic finding which is characterized by the accumulation of gas within the bowel wall. This radiologic finding is traditionally thought of in the sense of intestinal ischemia. An uncommon cause of this finding is post organ transplantation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pudendal neuralgia is a painful neuropathic condition involving the pudendal nerve dermatome. Tarlov cysts have been reported in the literature as another potential cause of chronic lumbosacral and pelvic pain. Notably, they are often located in the distribution of the pudendal nerve origin at the S2, S3, and S4 sacral nerve roots and it has been postulated that they may cause similar symptoms to pudendal neuralgia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRetroperitoneal hematoma is rare and benefits from a systematic approach to prevent morbidity and mortality. Management of such bleeds is based upon patient stability, the cause (spontaneous or posttraumatic), and source (arterial or venous). Herein, the authors describe a diagnostic and management algorithm for retroperitoneal hemorrhage with an example of a rare lumbar venous bleed under the complicated clinical setting of deep venous thrombosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInjuries to the inferior vena cava (IVC) secondary to blunt trauma are rare and occur in only 1-10% of all blunt trauma patients. Management of these injuries has not been subjected to major studies, but several case reports and small retrospective studies have demonstrated that management can be tailored to the hemodynamic status of the patient; this is similar to the management of blunt liver injuries. Stable patients whose injuries have achieved local venous tamponade have been successfully treated without surgical intervention, while unstable patients require operative management.
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June 1991
In the article are presented the results of study and treatment of 804 patients with polytrauma. In part of the patients in early period of the traumatic disease have been studied in complex the states of hemodynamics (circulating blood volume, specific peripheral resistance, cardiac index, central venous pressure, arterial pressure, heart rate) and metabolism (total protein, basal metabolism, the level of endogenous nitrogen in urine). On the basis of the obtained data there is proposed the evaluation of the hemodynamics changes, energetic and plastic losses at polytrauma that formed the basis of the pathogenetic therapy ensuring simultaneous correction of the detected disturbances.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZh Vopr Neirokhir Im N N Burdenko
May 1985
Hemodynamic disorders were studied in 60 patients with isolated craniocerebral injury and in 145 patients with craniocerebral injury and injury to the locomotor apparatus. The authors studied the changes in the mean dynamic arterial pressure, the cardiac contraction rate, the cardiac output, the general peripheral vascular resistance to blood flow, and the circulation volume. It was found that in isolated craniocerebral injury the circulation volume deficiency does not exceed 13%, the mean dynamic arterial pressure and the cardiac output increase.
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February 1975