[Appendiceal mucoceles. A case report].

A case of benign mucocele presenting as a subocclusive syndrome is reported; the surgical treatment consisted in a right colectomy. Appendiceal mucoceles are rare lesions of the appendix, characterized by a gross enlargement of the appendix from accumulation of mucoid substance within the lumen. It is a rare condition, encountered in only 0.

[Warm ischemia in kidney from non-heart beating donor . Instrumental evaluation].

A dramatic shortage of kidneys available for transplantation, due do the widespread reduction in consent, has urged us to explore alternative sources of kidney harvesting, in the attempt to reduce the current gap between the small number of donations and the large number of patients on waiting-list. We set our attention on non-heart-beating donors (NHBD). In the "first step" of our research, we tested an experimental technique, by using commercial pigs' kidneys, that has been useful to determinate the maximum warm ischemic time that a kidney of NHBD could tolerate.