La ecografía Doppler en la detección de invasión vesical en la placenta percreta: nuestra experiencia / Doppler ultrasound in the detection of bladder invasion in the percrete placenta: our experience

Objetivo: Demostrar la utilidad de la ecografía Doppler en la detección de la invasión vesical en el percretismo placentario. Materiales y métodos: Se evaluó por ecografía, desde noviembre de 2011 hasta mayo de 2013, a 21 pacientes de entre 20 y 44 anos que tenían diagnóstico quirúrgico e histopatológico de acretismo placentario (AP). Se consideró invasión vesical a la presencia de estructuras vasculares parietales en la evaluación Doppler color, mientras que se estableció como probable invasión a la presencia de otros hallazgos ecográficos sin senal Doppler. Resultados: De las 21 pacientes con acretismo placentario, 7 presentaron afectación vesical en el examen histopatológico: 5 tuvieron diagnóstico e informe ecográfico de invasión vesical (por la detección de estructuras vasculares en la evaluación Doppler color) y en las 2 restantes se planteó una probable afectación. De las 14 pacientes sin afectación vesical en el resultado histopatológico, hubo 7 con informes normales en la ecografía y 7 con resultados probables. Conclusión: La ecografía Doppler es un método muy útil para la detección de la invasión vesical en el percretismo placentario. Esta se observa con una vascularización parietal positiva en el Doppler color.

Purpose: To demonstrate the usefulness of Doppler ultrasound in the detection of bladder invasion in cases of placenta percreta. Materials and methods: Twenty-one patients, aged 20-44 years old, with surgery and histopathological diagnosis of placenta accreta were tested with ultrasound between November 2011 and May 2013. We considered bladder invasion the presence of hypervascularity detected with Doppler ultrasound, and probable invasion the presence of signs in gray-scale ultrasound, without Doppler color. Results: From the 21 patients included in the study with placenta accreta, 7 had bladder invasion in the histopathological study. Out of these seven, five had been reported to have bladder invasion because of the presence of hypervascularity detected with Doppler ultrasound, and the 2 remaining were reported as probably affected. Regarding the other 14, 7 were reported as normal in the ultrasound, and 7 as probable. Conclusion: Doppler ultrasound is a very reliable method to detect bladder invasion in placenta percreta, seen as hipervascularity of the uterine-bladder interface in the Doppler color exam.

La ecografía Doppler en la detección de invasión vesical en la placenta percreta: nuestra experiencia

Objetivo: Demostrar la utilidad de la ecografía Doppler en la detección de la invasión vesical en el percretismo placentario. Materiales y métodos: Se evaluó por ecografía, desde noviembre de 2011 hasta mayo de 2013, a 21 pacientes de entre 20 y 44 anos que tenían diagnóstico quirúrgico e histopatológico de acretismo placentario (AP). Se consideró invasión vesical a la presencia de estructuras vasculares parietales en la evaluación Doppler color, mientras que se estableció como probable invasión a la presencia de otros hallazgos ecográficos sin senal Doppler. Resultados: De las 21 pacientes con acretismo placentario, 7 presentaron afectación vesical en el examen histopatológico: 5 tuvieron diagnóstico e informe ecográfico de invasión vesical (por la detección de estructuras vasculares en la evaluación Doppler color) y en las 2 restantes se planteó una probable afectación. De las 14 pacientes sin afectación vesical en el resultado histopatológico, hubo 7 con informes normales en la ecografía y 7 con resultados probables. Conclusión: La ecografía Doppler es un método muy útil para la detección de la invasión vesical en el percretismo placentario. Esta se observa con una vascularización parietal positiva en el Doppler color.(AU)

Purpose: To demonstrate the usefulness of Doppler ultrasound in the detection of bladder invasion in cases of placenta percreta. Materials and methods: Twenty-one patients, aged 20-44 years old, with surgery and histopathological diagnosis of placenta accreta were tested with ultrasound between November 2011 and May 2013. We considered bladder invasion the presence of hypervascularity detected with Doppler ultrasound, and probable invasion the presence of signs in gray-scale ultrasound, without Doppler color. Results: From the 21 patients included in the study with placenta accreta, 7 had bladder invasion in the histopathological study. Out of these seven, five had been reported to have bladder invasion because of the presence of hypervascularity detected with Doppler ultrasound, and the 2 remaining were reported as probably affected. Regarding the other 14, 7 were reported as normal in the ultrasound, and 7 as probable. Conclusion: Doppler ultrasound is a very reliable method to detect bladder invasion in placenta percreta, seen as hipervascularity of the uterine-bladder interface in the Doppler color exam.(AU)

[Short- and long-term evaluation of treatment of critical ischemia of the lower lim with PGE1 (alprostadyl alpha-cyclodestrine)]. / Valutazione a breve e lungo termine del trattamento con PGE1 (alprostadil alpha-ciclodestrina) nell'ischemia critica degli arti inferiori.

Twenty-five patients affected by chronic lower limb obliterating arteriopathy with critical ischemia in one limb were treated with PGE1 for 4 weeks and then followed-up for one year. On day 14 of treatment three groups of patients were selected on the basis of clinical symptoms and instrumental tests; patients were subdivided into Responders, Partial Responders and Non-Responders. The results obtained were satisfactory in view of the fact that the selection into three groups enabled Partial Responders to be reclassified, in some cases by repeating the treatment cycle.

[Senile heart: an aging process of an organ and its system or an autonomous clinical entity?]. / Cuore senile. Processo di invecchiamento di un organo e del suo apparato o entità clinica autonoma?

Even though with increasing age it becomes progressively more difficult to distinguish between physiologic and pathologic changes and also considering the marked rise in the number of asymptomatic forms, the senile heart appears to be characterized by functional peculiarities rather than by specific organic alterations. Reduced contractility and myocardial compliance lead to the diminished effort adaptation characteristic for old age; to this must be added the degenerative changes of systemic vessels adding up to increased aortic impedance. Aging of the heart is not a clinical entity and therefore on no account requires therapeutic intervention provided investigation of each individual case has ascertained the absence of asymptomatic pathology. The sole possibility apt to delay the onset of overt pathology is physical exercise according to an individually tailored program.