Fractures of the calcaneus. A comparison of open and closed treatment.

Twenty patients with displaced intraarticular fractures of the calcaneus treated by open reduction and early postoperative motion exercises were compared after 2-12 years with 19 patients with similar fractures treated closed. The two groups were comparable regarding follow-up time, age, sex-distribution, and preinjury occupation. The pain and disability were almost equal in both groups.

Successful kidney transplantation in a man with Dacron "trouser" prosthesis.

The case history of a male patient, 62 years old, in preterminal uremia at transplantation with a cadaveric kidney is described. Twelve years before the transplantation he was operated on because of an aortic aneurysm where the abdominal aorta and both iliac arteries were substituted with a Dacron prosthesis. The kidney was anastomosed to this vessel substitute and functioned excellently for more than five years and the patient was completely rehabilitated.

Artery steonsis in renal transplantation.

Twenty-two stenoses were discovered at a re-examination of 958 routine angiographies of 367 transplanted kidneys. Two separate types of stenosis could be distinguished- a short one localized to the anastomosis appearing immediately after the transplantation, and a long one distal to the anastomosis appearing three weeks or more after the operation. Hypertension did not appear until the stenosis had reduced the vascular diameter more than 60%.