Saving the ischemic penumbra: endovascular thrombolysis versus medical treatment.

Endovascular thrombolysis may allow rapid arterial recanalization in patients with acute ischemic stroke. We present the first study to our knowledge comparing the ischemic penumbra saved with endovascular versus medical therapy. A retrospective review of 21 patients undergoing endovascular intervention for stroke from 2010 to 2011 was contrasted with 21 consecutive patients treated with antiplatelet agents alone.

[Enecphalocele: 26 retrospective cases at the Maternal and Neonatal Center of La Rabta, Tunis].

Encephalocel is leff frequent than spina bifida and anencephalia. Its incidence is 0.25@1000 births.

[Fetal pathology aspects of 97 cases of anencephaly. CMNR Tunisian study].

So, the epidemiologic study done for 8 years at CMNR Tunis has shown that the incidence is 1.15@1000 births (between 0.52 and 1.

[Lethal uropathies: prenatal diagnosis and feto-pathologic aspects].

Forty-three prenatal diagnoses of lethal urinary tract abnormalities were carried out during a five-year-period. The abnormalities were bilateral renal agenesis (56%), autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (16%), autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (14%), MECKEL-GRUBER syndrome and Prune-Belly syndrome (4%). The pregnancy was interrupted in thirty-five cases (81.