[Clinical aspects of long-term parenteral alimentation in the "short intestine syndrome". Clinical case].

A case of malabsorption syndrome (organic wasting, hypokaliaemia, metabolic acidosis, diarrhoea, hypochromic anaemia) following removal of 4 m of ileus for thrombophlebitis of the mesentery is described. In the first seven months, the patient was hospitalised five times to correct these imbalances by means of PA, with repeated venous incannulation. PA was continued at home each evening, together with heparin therapy (25,000 U calcic heparin/day).

[Treatment of acute renal insufficiency in intensive care. Current perspectives with TPA and proxazole].

A critical assessment is made of cases of ARF observed in a resuscitation department over the last three years. Reference is made to the physiopathological and pharmacological premises underlying the employment of a different therapeutic protocol, based on the maintenance of high diuresis with proxazol and the use of TPA to establish a nitrogen balance with a high cal/N ratio, coupled with the administration of histidine.