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Modified Sujura Operation: Long‐Term Results

World Journal of Surgery, 1996
AbstractFrom January 1980 to January 1986 a total of 93 patients with portal hypertension (59 males, 34 females; average age 51.5 years) underwent the modified Sujura’s operation. All patients presented with esophageal varices during the preoperative endoscopic workup. Child’s risk category was A in 6 patients and B in the remaining 87.
G, Battaglia, E, Ancona, E, Patarnello, T, Morbin, M, Anselmino, A, Peracchia   +5 more
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The long-term prognosis of nephropathy in operated reflux

Journal of Pediatric Urology, 2019
To investigate the postoperative long-term prognosis and the factors predicting the renal function of patients with reflux nephropathy. As the serum creatinine (s-Cr) level tends to increase during infancy, the degree of reflux and renal parenchymal damage are thought to be more important factors in pediatric patients than in older patients.This study ...
Hirofumi Matsuoka, Masatoshi Tanaka, Takanori Yamaguchi, Minoru Miyazato, Toshiharu Kihara, Masayuki Nakagawa, Ken-ichi Mori, Toshio Kamimura   +7 more
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Long-Term Results of the Fontan Operation

Pediatric Cardiology, 2007
Modifications of the Fontan operation can afford excellent palliation for many patients with a variety of forms of single ventricle. In properly selected patients who are good candidates, early and late survival can be as high as 95-97%. However, mortality is considerably higher for patients with risk factors for poor outcome.
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RPV Long Term Operation: Open Issues

Strength of Materials, 2013
This paper presents and describes key open issues which are being debated nowadays by experts in the field, and for which clarification is essential for a safe operation of the nuclear power plants during life extension. Notably: late blooming effects in low Cu steels; effects of Cu, Ni, Mn, and P on the irradiated microstructure and on hardening and ...
Ballesteros, A., Altstadt, E.
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Long-term results of operation for paravalvular abscess

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1996
Operation for infective endocarditis with paravalvular abscess is reportedly associated with high mortality and morbidity rates. In an attempt to improve surgical outcome, an approach of radical resection of the abscess and inflamed tissues and reconstruction of the heart with either fresh or glutaraldehyde-fixed bovine pericardium was adopted by two ...
Y, d'Udekem, T E, David, C M, Feindel, S, Armstrong, Z, Sun   +4 more
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LONG-TERM RESULTS WITH THE FENESTRATION OPERATION

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1954
IN A DISCUSSION of the fenestration operation and its results at the present time, it is extremely gratifying to realize that it is now unnecessary to present evidence or proof of the substantial results that can be obtained with the operation. This is a pleasant contrast to the situation existing 10 or 12 years ago, when the operation and the benefits
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Long-term Outcome of Operated and Unoperated Epiphrenic Diverticula

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, 2008
The natural history of esophageal epiphrenic diverticula (ED) is not entirely clear; the decision whether to operate or not is often based on the personal preference of the physician and patient. The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term fate of operated and unoperated patients with ED.Clinical, radiological, and motility findings, and ...
ZANINOTTO, GIOVANNI, PORTALE G, COSTANTINI M, MERIGLIANO, STEFANO, GUIRROLI E, RIZZETTO C, RAMPADO S, ANCONA, ERMANNO   +7 more
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Long-term results after colonna's operation

International Orthopaedics, 1989
A long-term review of 82 patients (117 hips) who had Colonna's operation for congenital dislocation of the hip has been carried out. Although early assessments had shown a high proportion of good results these deteriorated with time. At our latest review of 61 hips, with an average follow-up of 30 years, 34% had moderate, and 66% severe, osteoarthrosis;
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Training of waste operators pays in the long term

Waste Management & Research, 1985
The experience of the Biffa Waste Services Company in the training of waste operators is reviewed. The Company has adopted a marketing platform for its many services which recognizes the important part that the environment plays and believes that only through training of everyone will its objectives be achieved.
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The Fontan operation

Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2015
As perioperative survival following the Fontan procedure has improved and more patients are reaping the benefits of physiologic palliation, the costs of longstanding systemic venous hypertension and the functional limitations of a single ventricle are becoming clearer. Arrhythmias, heart failure, protein-losing enteropathy, hepatic cirrhosis, pulmonary
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