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[Acute effects of a new type of lipidic emulsion in critical patients].
Minerva Anestesiol
October 1989
A new type of 10% lipidic emulsion based on safflower oil and soya (Liposyn II, Abbott, Latina) characterised by a high linoleic/linolenic acid ratio was administered in random, double blind fashion with 10% Intralipid to 20 subjects submitted to major surgery of the digestive system. Dosage was 1.2 g/kg at an infusion rate of 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the last 8 years 51 cases of acute post-traumatic or post-operative cholecystitis were observed in our intensive care unit. Twelve patients benefited from ultrasonically guided percutaneous cholecystostomy under television control. Diagnosis was made by ultrasonic examination and was based on the finding of an enlarged and tender gallbladder with an abnormally thick wall, sometimes with a double wall, and on the presence of sludge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors present a group of 48 patients with stress ulcers (36 men, 13 women) average age 56.2 years. The analysis of the cases allowed to establish, for the first time in medical literature, a correlation between the etiology, the symptomatology and the moment of onset of the haemorrhage, with important practical implications in the adoption of a treatment regime.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPost-operative disease, which is well known clinically, is characterised in the laboratory and metabolically by a succession of two stages=an initial short stage, lasting a few days, marked by intensive catabolism and, after a change, there is a second phase, much longer, lasting several weeks, anabolic in nature, during which are reconstituted the reserves lost during the first phase. The mechanism of post-operative disease enters into the general field of post-aggressive reaction bringing into play an adrenocorticoid process. But a whole series of factors, included in the agression without neuro-endocrine background, cause diffuse metabolic disturbances in the organism with their own appearance of severity.
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