Interstitial hyperthermia and iridium-192 treatment alone vs. interstitial iridium-192 treatment/hyperthermia and low dose cisplatinum infusion in the treatment of locally advanced head and neck malignancies.
Abstract: To determine whether the addition of low dose platinum infusional chemotherapy adds to the effectiveness of interstitial hyperthermia/iridium-192 management of locally advanced head and neck malignancies. From 1987 to 1993, 36 patients with locally advanced...
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment for haemorrhagic radiation cystitis.
Abstract: Radiation-induced severe haemorrhagic cystitis is difficult to treat. Conventional treatments may decrease haematuria but do not affect the radiocystitis itself. Hyperbaric oxygen treatment has been reported to do both. We report the results of a prospective...
Hyperosmolarity does not contribute to transient radicular irritation after spinal anesthesia with hyperbaric 5% lidocaine.
Abstract: In addition to major neurologic injury, local anesthesia toxicity may also include less severe but more common neurologic side effects. The authors recently observed symptoms suggestive of transient radicular irritation in one third of patients after spinal...
Free tissue failure is not an all-or-none phenomenon.
Abstract: A common misconception among microsurgeons is that free tissue failure is an "all-or-none" phenomenon. In other words, there is an instantaneous cessation of blood flow to a flap primarily due to thrombosis at the arterial or venous anastomotic...
[Perioperative management of a patient with severe bronchial asthma attack].
Abstract: We report an anesthetic management for Miles' operation in a 50-year-old female who had frequent severe bronchial asthmatic attacks prior to surgery. Because the surgical field was in the lower abdomen, we selected spinal anesthesia combined with epidural...
Hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. A double-blind pilot study.
Abstract: The effects of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy on humans are uncertain. Our study aims first to outline the practical aspects and the safety of HBO treatment and then to evaluate the effect of HBO on long-term disability. Patients who experienced middle...
[Perioperative management of a patient with severe bronchial asthma attack].
Abstract: We report an anesthetic management for Miles' operation in a 50-year-old female who had frequent severe bronchial asthmatic attacks prior to surgery. Because the surgical field was in the lower abdomen, we selected spinal anesthesia combined with epidural...
Hypothermia and hyperbaric oxygen as treatment modalities for severe head injury.
Abstract: Moderate systemic hypothermia has been shown to improve neurologic outcomes in both fluid-percussion and cortical contusion models of experimental brain injury. Based upon initial clinical work, it was concluded that at temperatures < 32 degrees C, patients...
Hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. A double-blind pilot study.
Abstract: The effects of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy on humans are uncertain. Our study aims first to outline the practical aspects and the safety of HBO treatment and then to evaluate the effect of HBO on long-term disability. Patients who experienced middle...