Multicentric observational cohort study evaluating a composite mesh with incorporated oxidized regenerated cellulose in laparoscopic ventral hernia repair.

Background: A variety of newly developed mesh products have recently become available to use inside the peritoneal cavity. This analysis reports the first clinical data evaluating the experience with the use of Proceed mesh in laparoscopic ventral hernia repair.

Patients And Methods: During a 6-month period, 114 adult patients underwent a laparoscopic ventral hernia repair using an intra-abdominal placement of a Proceed mesh.

[Surgery in the octogenarian (introduction). Results of a national survey].

Presentation of the results of a national, multicentric and retrospective study regarding the surgery of the octogenarian. The series counts 7,407 patients accepted for surgery, and which can be divided into 4,581 women (61.8%) and 2,826 men (38.

[Current trends in the surgical treatment of chronic pancreatitis].

Since May 1980, we started treating patients suffering from chronic pancreatitis with pancreatic duct obstruction. During surgery, prolamine, a alcoholic amino-acid solution, was injected into the pancreas through the papil of Vater or directly into the pancreatic duct following pancreatic tail resection. So far thirteen patients were treated this way.

[Surgical therapy of uremic pericarditis (author's transl)].

During a five year period (January 1975 - September 1980) 33 patients, in a population of 262 chronic hemodialysis patients, were treated for uremic pericarditis. They all underwent a pericardiostomy either through a lateral (15 cases) or through a subxiphoid approach (18 cases). Immediate clinical relief occurred in all but one patient who showed a progressive cardiac failure even after drainage.

[Surgical therapy of pheochromocytoma (author's transl)].

Between 1958-1978 a total of 19 patients, 11 men and 8 women, were treated for pheochromocytoma. Their age varied between 9 and 67 years (overage 39 years). In all cases with unilateral tumor located in the adrenal gland a lateral approach was preferred.