RESUMO
The authors report a case of acute limb ischemia in a 19 years old patient seen at 9 hours of the injury. They describe a technique of "washing-reperfusion" by a cardio-pulmonary limb bypass (CPLB). Blood pH and kaliema measurements during CPLB were noted. The good clinical result except on the initial nerves deficit, should lead to think that this technique could take a place in the treatment of acute limb ischemia seen lately.
Assuntos
Circulação Extracorpórea , Isquemia/terapia , Perna (Membro)/irrigação sanguínea , Doença Aguda , Adulto , Fraturas do Fêmur/complicações , Humanos , Isquemia/etiologia , Masculino , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
A 53 year old woman presented, one month after an anicteric leptospirosis, an acute, asymmetrical, sensorimotor polyneuropathy involving the lower limbs. Electrophysiological study showed evidence of severe denervation, with normal motor nerve conduction velocities, indicating an axonal degeneration. Neuro-muscular biopsy showed signs of wallerian degeneration and perivascular infiltrates of epineural vessels. She received a corticosteroid therapy during 6 months and there was a nearly complete clinical recovery.