[Late reinterventions after the surgical treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcer]. / Reinterventii tardive dupa tratamentul chirurgical al ulcerului gastric si duodenal.

A number of 87 reinterventions performed during a 5-year-period for late complications of the gastric and duodenal ulcer surgery are analysed. In most of them (64 cases), the cause of the reintervention was a postoperative ulcer. A long afferent loop (6 cases), the dumping syndrome (4 cases), the stenosis of the anastomosis opening (6 cases) and the primitive neoplasm of the gastric stump (7 cases) represented other causes of reintervention. The immediate postoperative results were very good and good in 69 cases. The risks related to the specific character of this surgery materialized themselves in 14 postoperative complications (anastomotic fistulas, haemorrhages from the anastomosis, stress ulcers etc.), which required iterative operations; the postoperative death rate attained 3.4%. The analysis of these postgastrectomy syndromes is an opportunity to discuss about the failure factors in the surgery of the gastric and duodenal ulcer, the possibilities of exploration and the principles which should guide the reparative therapy.

[Sclerosing cholangitis in the evolution of a surgical hepatic hydatid cyst]. / Colangita stenozanta în evolutia chistului hidatic hepatic operat.

The retrospective analysis of 3 clinical observations points out the etiopathogenetic, clinical and therapeutical aspects of the diffuse stenotic cholangitis, which can occur after the surgical treatment of the hepatic hydatid cyst. Although rare (2.9% of hydatid cysts, 13% of those which communicate with the bile ducts), the diffuse stenotic posthydatid cholangitis represents a severe postoperative complication in cases of median cysts, exerting a compression upon the convergence of hepatic ducts and communicating with the biliary tract. Its presence should be clinically suspected if a mechanical icterus with septic angiocholitis, sometimes associated with an external biliary fistula (from the residual cavity), occurs in the postoperative course of these patients, especially if the primary operation has excluded the remanance of an obstacle at the level of the main bile duct. The lesional substrate is comparable with that of the primitive sclerosing cholangitis, from which it differs through its clear relation with the primary treatment of the hepatic hydatid cyst, through the rapid course of stenotic lesions which, although diffuse, may become more marked in certain segments, as well as through the constant suprastenotic dilatation of the bile ducts. In the pathogenesis are involved the caustic action of some scolicide solutions (2 per cent formaldehyde solution, hypertonic salt solution) on the wall of the bile duct and the cystobiliary communication which predisposes to the peroperative occurrence o-a migration syndrome and of angiocholitis. It requires an early surgical reintervention in order to solve the cholestasis and angiocholitis: according to the morphological situation, we have the choice between disobstruction and trans-stenotic calibration drainage, on the one hand, and biliodigestive derivations in the hilum, which are more efficient, on the other. The prognosis is burdened with the vital risk of septic angiocholitis and with the early occurrence of a secondary biliary cirrhosis or of stenotic recurrences. Prophylaxis consists in the performance of a primary surgical treatment, adequate in median and communicating hydatid cysts, avoiding the "blind" intracystic administration of scolicide solutions, which exert a caustic action on the bile ducts.

[The reinsertion of the duodenum into the digestive circuit. The indications and surgical technics in operated stomach syndromes]. / Reintroducerea duodenului în circuitul digestiv. Indicatii si technici operatorii în sindroamele stomacului operat.

The authors analyse, retrospectively, the experience of the Clinic of Surgery III. Cluj-Napoca, in the indications and surgical methods for reintroducing the duodenum in the digestive circuit in the syndromes of the stomach operated for benign affections. Between 1974 and 1987, the duodenum was reinstated in the digestive circuit in 37 patients, operated previously for duodenal ulcer (32 cases), gastric ulcer (3 cases), syndrome of mesenteric clip (2 cases). The primary surgeries that led to the exclusions of the duodenum from the digestive tract were gastroenteroanastomosis in 4 cases, and the gastric resections with gastrojejunal anastomoses of the Billroth II type in 33 cases (Reichel-Polya in 28 cases. Hoffmeister-Finsterer in 3 cases, Roux in 2 cases). The reintroduction of the duodenum in the digestive circuit, based on clinical and paraclinical criteria, was indicated in anastomotic ulcer (in 17 cases), gastric ulcer following gastroenteroanastomoses (in 1 case), syndrome of afferent loop (in 11 cases), persistent "dumping" syndrome (in 8 cases), association of plurideficiency syndrome (in 54% of the cases). The way of reconstructing the duodenum was adapted to the type and correctness of the primary operation, to the dominant clinical syndrome and associated lesions to the biological background and possibilities offered by the intrasurgical situation: reconversion by direct gastroduodenal anastomosis after degastrogastrectomy was used in 31 cases, the indirect methods by transposition of the afferent loop (Soupault--Bucaille) in 4 cases, or of the afferent one (Henley)--1 case gastrography and segmentary enterectomy in 1 case. The postoperative complications appeared in 35.1% of case, with a mortality of 8.1%. The therapeutic results were good and very good in 89.3% of the cases. The authors insist on the importance of maintaining the duodenum in the digestive circuit, during the primary surgeries for preventing some severe postsurgical syndromes.

[Emergency operations in colorectal cancer]. / Operatii de urgenta în cancerul recto-colonic.

In a group of 161 patients subjected to emergency surgery of rectocolonic cancers with occlusive (111 cases), hemorrhagic (39 cases) or perforating (11 cases) complications, the authors analyze the immediate therapeutic results, as a function of the complication form and the surgical method used in emergency (primary colectomy, serial surgeries, palliative surgeries). Emergency colectomy (55 cases) performed deliberately in strictly selected cases or as the unique possible choice, was followed by immediate good results (the lowest rate of surgical morbidity and mortality) in comparison with the serial surgeries (cumulative morbidity and mortality). The paper discusses the indications of the proximal colectomy and of Hartman's surgery in primary emergency colectomies. Serial surgeries (secondary colectomy--30 cases) are mainly indicated in the complicated cancers of the left colon, in the patients with resectable tumours, but with critical biological state or with insufficiently prepared colon. Palliative surgeries (colostomies, internal derivations) used in patients with nonresectable tumours were followed by the highest surgical mortality, a consequence of the biological substrate weakened by disease and complications. The data reported show the necessity of a selective tactical behaviour in the emergency surgery of rectocolonic cancer and plead for the primary urgent colectomy in the patients meeting certain general and local conditions. Likewise, they point to the importance of discovering rectocolonic cancer in an early stage, before the appearance of complications requiring the emergency surgery.

Ultrasonic diagnosis in gallbladder diseases: comparison with the morphopathologic findings in a series of 151 cholecystectomized patients

Foram estudados 151 pacientes submetidos à colecistectomia após estudo ultra-sonográfico da vesícula biliar, numa tentativa de correlacionar os achados cirúrgicos com os dados fornecidos pela ultra-sonografia. Desta maneira, foi diagnosticada colelitíase em 114 dos 151 pacientes operados, sendo comprovada cirurgicamente em 103 pacientes, determinando, portanto, um índice de falsa positividade de 7%. A sensibilidade na detecçäo da colelitíase foi de 96%, com especificidade de 75% e exatidäo de 90%. O diagnóstico de colecistopatia alitiásica foi feito em 37 pacientes e comprovado somente em 19, sendo constatado nos restantes, no ato operatório, a presença de cálculos. Assim, a sensibilidade na detecçäo da colecistopatia alitiásica foi de 63%, com especificidade de 85% e exatidäo de 80%. Nos casos nos quais a sonografia detectou espessamento da parede da vesícula biliar, houve índice de acerto de 100%, considerando-se o aspecto macroscópico na operaçäo, näo havendo portanto, falsa positividade nos 27 pacientes nos quais tal particularidade foi assinalada pré-operatoriamente. É realçada, ainda, a possibilidade de avaliaçäo do esvaziamento vesicular após ingestäo de gordurosos pela sonografia, sendo considerado de valor no diagnóstico das discinesia vesiculares, após serem analisados 16 pacientes nos quais o método foi empregado e comparado ao estudo radiológico obtido por colecistografia oral

Acute renal failure in obstructive diseases of the extrahepatic biliary ducts.

A series of 46 patients with obstructive disease of the bile ducts complicated by acute renal failure (ARF) is presented. The patients exhibited obstructive jaundice with prevalence of conjugated bilirubine. In 80% of the cases biliary obstruction was associated with cholangitis. Disturbances of the liver function (from mild cholestasis to biliary cirrhosis) were also present. The renal damage was due to biliary disorders and was either present on admission (33 cases) or developed postoperatively (13 cases). Most of the patients presented nonoliguric ARF as well as poor perfusion resulting from decreased circulating blood volume (dehydration and electrolyte loss). Among the criteria used to determine the type of ARF, the urinary/plasma creatinine ratio less than 10 and urinary/plasma osmolarity ratio less than 1.1 were the most valuable. Management of ARF by dialysis alone was not satisfactory. Attention is called to the surgical treatment of the biliary disorder as being essential to prognosis. Patients not treated by radical surgery died in proportion of 87 to 100%. From the rest of 18 patients in whom the operation provided an adequate biliary drainage, in 15 the renal function was restored and 12 survived. Better prognosis in these patients was dependent not only on the ability to cure the cholestasis and infection, but on the early surgical treatment. The ultimate prognosis depends on the improvement of the liver function.

[Scintigraphic exploration of the peripheral arterial circulation, using macroaggregates of serum albumin labeled with Tc 99m]. / Explorarea scintigrafica a circulatiei arteriale periferice prin macroagregat de serumalbumina marcat cu 99m Tc

The method of scintigraphic exploration is demonstrated of the peripheral arterial circulation, following intra-arterial administration of 99m Tc-labelled serumalbumin macroaggregates. The indications of the methods are mentioned and evaluations are made on the position they have in the peripheral arteriopathies.