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Humans , Female , Thrombosis/etiology , Mitral Valve/pathology , Echocardiography, TransesophagealABSTRACT
This study was mainly done from the wards' registers, the hospital's registers, the death certificates and the medical charts. We noted 343 deaths among the 10.140 patients admitted during the ten years [3.4%]. Deaths were more frequent in males [3.7%] than in females [2.6%]. Deaths were more frequent in patients admitted from the emergency unit of the hospital [8%]. They occured a little more during autumn and winter [55.4%]. Forty two percent occured during the first ten days of hospitalisation and 15% during the first day. Cancer was the most frequent cause of death [36.7% with 20.4% were primitive lung cancer]. The principal other causes were: tuberculosis and its sequelae [15.6%], bronchial, pulmonary and pleural non specific infections [12.5%], hydatic cyst [9%], chronic broncho-pulmonary diseases [6.1%]. No cause was determined in 10% of cases. Among the 3.248 surgical patients we noted 63 deaths [1.9%]: 10.6% for primitive lung cancer, 5% for aspergilloma, 2.1% for tuberculosis and its sequelae and 0.9% for hydatic cysts. The importance of hospital mortality studies is stressed
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Humans , Male , Female , Thoracic Surgery , Hospitals, University , Lung Neoplasms , Tuberculosis , Echinococcosis , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
The authors present the results of liver scanning in 447 patients with pulmonary hydatic cysts. Abnormal scan was noted in 126 cases [28,2%]. The percentage of abnormal scan is only 4,4% in patients without clinical or radiological indication of hepatic disease. This percentage is 23% in presence of pain in the right hypochondrium, 32% in presence of raising of the right diaphragm in chest Ray, 51,6% in presence of hepatomegaly and 75%, in cases with association of two or three of previous elements. Liver scan is more often abnormal in right unic pulmonary hydatic cyst [32,1%] than in left one [23,7]. In multiple pulmonary hydatic cyst the percentage is 28,7%. At last results vary also according to immunologic reactions. Liver scan is more often abnormal in cases with positive Casoni [28,2%] than,in cases with negative Casoni [5%]. It is more often abnormal in cases with positive serologic reactions [34%] than in cases with negative ones [20%]
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Humans , Male , Female , Liver/diagnostic imaging , Liver Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Radionuclide Imaging , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
Two hundred and seventy six cases of spontaneous pneumothorax seen in 11 years [1967-1977] were studied. The frequency of the disease has rised sharply but seems to have stabilised for the last 3 years. Males are more frequently involved [84.8%]. 53.2% of the patients were less than 30 years old. Clinically typical symptoms were found in 70% of cases. On the X-Rays, fluid reactions were frequently seen [34%]. Radiology is very important for determining the etiology. 51,8% of cases were primitive [idiopathic], 24% were tuberculous, 8,7% were of hydatic etiology and 4,7% were infectious. 263 patients were cured [95%]. 25 presented with recurrence. Therapeutic result and recurrences were analysed depending on the etiology and the therapeutics used
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Humans , Male , Female , Pneumothorax/diagnosis , Pneumothorax/therapy , Adult , Retrospective Studies , Tuberculosis , Echinococcosis, PulmonaryABSTRACT
The authors recall the main clinical radiological, bacteriological and therapeutic characteristics of a 100 cases of abcesses in previously unaffected adults lungs observed over a period of 10 years [1968-1977]. They note the young age of a great number of patients, the long evolution preceeding the first consultation illustrated by the frequency of the vomica and the dyspnea. The radiological aspect is typical in 89% of the cases. The bacteriological study, not quite conclusive is in fact not necessary to conduct the treatment. Recovery is achieved in 94% of the cases