[Prospective study of the outcome of rheoplethysmographic parameters after deep venous thrombosis of the lower extremities. Role in the decision to discontinue anticoagulants].

Forty-eight patients (25 M, 23 F) age range 25 to 83 years were admitted for treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of lower limbs confirmed by phlebocavography. Lesions were sural in 6 cases (Gr. 1), subcrural in 28 (Gr.

[Is it necessary to discontinue captopril before heart surgery?].

Interaction between kininase II and anaesthesia is not well described. Twenty two patients treated by kininase II for congestive heart failure are studied during anaesthesia for cardiovascular surgery. A first group of seventeen homogeneous hemodynamic data are reported.

[New morphine-type analgesics in anesthesia].

Since the synthesis of Fentanyl in 1961, many narcotics have appeared which are not yet available in France. Among agonists, all are Fentanyl derivates but are different by either more powerful (sufentanyl, lofentanyl), and longer-acting effects (lofentanyl), or less powerful and shorter-acting effects (alfentanyl). All would have a greater security index and minimal cardiovascular side effects.