Usefulness of an organ donation opinion survey as a tool to promote organ donation among the adolescent population.

Opinion surveys on health issues are considered health promotion tools. However, no studies have confirmed this in deceased organ donation for transplantation. This study aimed to analyse the impact of completing an opinion questionnaire about deceased organ donation on the attitude towards organ donation among the adolescent population.

Repeatability and comparability of anterior segment biometry obtained by the Sirius and the Pentacam analyzers.

To assess the repeatability and comparability of six anterior segment biometry parameters obtained with a novel Scheimpflug camera with a Placido disc topographer (Sirius) and slit-scanning tomography with a Scheimpflug camera (Pentacam), in a sample of 16 unoperated eyes of healthy subjects. The anterior segment was analyzed by a single examiner using the Sirius and the Pentacam analyzers. Mean simulated keratometry (Sim K), flat and steep axis keratometry (K f and K s ), central and thinnest corneal thicknesses (CCT and TCT), and anterior chamber depth (ACD) measurements were evaluated.

Incisional hernia at the site of a stoma.

Objective: Incisional hernia at the site where a patient had previously had a stoma has not been clearly studied. The aim of this study is to determine the incidence and associated factors that may lead to an incisional hernia related to the reversal of an intestinal stoma.

Patients And Methods: An analysis was made of 70 cases of intestinal reconnection.

Parastomal hernia-repair using mesh and an open technique.

Introduction: Parastomal hernia occurs in 35%-50% of patients who have had a stoma formed, whether for the digestive tract or the urinary tract. There are many repair techniques including primary repair and repair using different types of mesh prosthesis, and the surgical approach may be open or laparoscopic. However, all techniques suffer the disadvantage of a high index of hernia recurrence.

Restoration of endocrine function and ovulation after a heterotopic ovarian transplant in the inguinal region of rabbits using a vascular microsurgical technique.

The aim of this study was to define an experimental model in rabbits for subcutaneous heterotopic ovarian autotransplants and allotransplants in the inguinal region using a microvascular technique to restore endocrine function and ovulation. Forty sexually mature New Zealand white receptor rabbits and 20 donating Californian rabbits were divided into two experimental models: model A; autogenic model-control group 1 (n = 10), right ovariectomy; group II (n = 10), heterotopic ovarian autotransplant with peritoneal pouch plus left ovariectomy; model B: allogenic model-donator group III (n = 10), right ovariectomy with peritoneal tissue; receptor group (n = 10), ovarian heterotopic allotransplant with peritoneal pouch and bilateral ovariectomy, without immunosuppression; group IV donator (n = 10), receptor (n = 10) using the same procedure as in group III, administering cyclosporine 4 mg/kg/d intramuscularly and prednisone 1 mg/kg/d PO for 28 days. Ovarian function was assessed in the transplanted ovary after stimulation with human chorionic gonadotropin (100 IU).

Restoration of endocrine function and fertility with a tubo-ovarian autotransplant as the anatomical-functional unit in rabbits using a vascular microsurgical technique.

Infertility has been considered a global public health problem in many countries worldwide. Our objective was to restore endocrine function and fertility in tubal-oophorectomized rabbits using an orthotopic tubal-ovarian vascularized autotransplant model as the anatomical-functional unit while employing a microvascular surgical technique. Twenty New Zealand white (NZW) sexually mature female rabbits and four male NZW rabbits of proven fertility were divided into two study groups.