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The ethics of organ donation for transplantation.

The new law 12/93, which regulates organ donation for transplantation in Portugal, is reviewed. The author emphasizes the importance of some legal improvements to allow a better fulfillment of the first principles of ethics that will rule the conflicts of interest between living and dead donors and recipients. Criticism is made of the interference that the Ministry of Health will have in the decision of doctors...

Quality control of vagotomy in duodenal ulcer perforation.

The efficacy of truncal vagotomy combined with pyloroplasty has been studied in 56 patients, divided into the following groups: Group I-29 patients submitted to bilateral truncal vagotomy (BTV) and pyloroplasty, as the method of treatment to solve the problem of perforated duodenal ulcer (initial and retrospective phase of study). Group II-With 11 patients, who underwent the same operation as those in Group I b...

Surgical therapy of peptic stenosis of the esophagus in adults.

One hundred and one patients with reflux esophagitis and strictures, submitted to different kinds of surgical solutions over the last 16 years, were revised. Seventy seven patients had dilatable stricture and the lower esophageal sphincter mechanism could be brought intra-abdominally in 70. In 36 there was radiographic evidence of hiatal hernia and 8 had a Barrett esophagus. The surgical technique employed in t...

Organ transplantation and the beginning of programs of liver transplantation in...

Reform of medical education.

Preservation of the liver using a new solution of phosphate-buffered saccharose.

The efficacy of the new phosphate-buffered sucrose solution (PBS), was compared with the conventional Euro-Collins (EC) and the lactated Ringer solution (LR), in its capacity to preserve the canine liver in cold storage. Three groups of 6 canine livers, each group in one of those solutions, were put in cold storage for 24 h at 4 degrees centigrade. At the end of this period the effect of warm hepatic reperfusio...

Total gastrectomy with creation of a new stomach using the jejunum. A retrospec...

Results obtained in 120 patients with gastric carcinoma, and submitted between 1982 and 1989, to a total gastrectomy and a new technique of reconstruction with jejunum, are analyzed retrospectively. This technique associates, a jejunoplication around the terminal esophagus with the purpose to eliminate the entero-esophageal reflux and the risk of dehiscence, and a double jejuno-jejunostomy with the target to de...

Roux-en-Y gastrectomy. A 12 years' experience.

A review of 161 patients who underwent Roux-en-Y biliary diversion and truncal vagotomy from 1978 to 1989 is performed under the double perspective: clinical and functional (using radionuclide semi-solid and liquid gastric emptying (GE) studies). In 46 patients this solution was adopted to treat different kinds of post-gastrectomy syndromes and in 115 to solve the esophageal-duodeno-gastric peptic disease. Some...

Acta Médica Portuguesa--evaluation of a 3-year period.

Current possibilities of surgical treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. Apropo...

The recent improvement in surgical of therapy of carriers of hepatocellular carcinoma is due to both an early diagnosis of the illness and in the evaluation of set of prognostic and resectability factors. On describing a clinical case of a hepatocellular carcinoma localized on the left lobe of a healthy liver, the importance of the analysis of those factors of prognostic and resectable evaluation is shown up, c...