Objective
To summarize the visual outcome of patients with severe ocular trauma treated with vitreous surgery.
Methods
Clinical data of 188(191 eyes) with severe ocular trauma treated with vitreous surgery in a period from November 1996 to April 1998 were analysed retrospectively.
Results
The study included penetrating injury in 56 eyes, foreign bodies in the posterior segment in 70 eyes, blunt injury in 41 eyes , and globe rupture in 24 eyes. Main complications included endophthalmitis in 35 eyes, choroidal bleeding in 20 eyes, retinal detachment in 60 eyes, and vitreous hemorrhage in 97 eyes. Post-opera-tively, out of 188 eyes, except for 3 of patients too young to examine, visual acuity improved in 133(70.7%), including 85(45.2%) with visal acuity 0.02-1.0, 46(24.5%) remained unchanged; and 9(4.8%) had worse vision. Among 34 with no-light-perception, 12 had light-perception or over.
Conclusion
A majority of severe trauma eyes can be salvaged with considerable visual recovery after adequate and timely vitreous surgery.
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There was no enough evidence to support the view that endovascular treatment could alternate the endarterectomy to be a standard treatment of carotid stenosis. A recent Cochrane systematic review found no difference in major outcomes between endovascular treatment and surgery. The randomised trials provided data to show that the main advantage of endovascular treatment for carotid artery stenosis was the avoidance of minor complications such as cranial nerve palsy and wound haematoma of surgery. Longer term follow also showed no difference in the rate of stroke during follow-up, but the confidence intervals were very wide allowing the possibility of a substantial difference in risk and benefits of the two treatments. There was no difference in avoidance of stroke between carotid stenting using protection devices and surgery, and the protection devices could cause additional complications.
Objective To explore the diameter change of the extrahepatic bile duct before and after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). Methods From Jan. 2006 to Dec. 2007, 113 patients including chronic gallstone cholecystitis (n=55), inactive cholecystolithiasis (n=46) and gallbladder polyps (n=12) were collected and treated by LC. The diameters of their extrahepatic bile ducts were measured by B ultrasonography before operation, 3 months and 6 months after operation. These data were collected and analyzed retrospectively. Results The diameters of the extrahepatic bile ducts of all patients before LC, 3 months and 6 months after LC were (5±2) mm, (8±2) mm and (6±2) mm respectively. And in chronic gallstone cholecystitis patients they were (5±2) mm, (9±2) mm and (6±2) mm respectively, in inactive gallstone cholelithiasis patients they were (5±2) mm, (8±2) mm and (6±2) mm respectively, and in gallbladder polyps ones they were (5±2) mm, (7±2) mm and (5±2) mm respectively. Conclusion The change of the extrahepatic bile duct diameter after LC is a dynamic process. It is enlarged on the third month after operation than before operation. In the sixth month after operation marked retraction occurs, and compared with before operation, it shows no obvious statistic significance.