תוצאת חיפוש

מיכל מיסטרסקי, ישראל נודלמן, שלמה ללצוק ומשה רובין

שיטת הניתוח הלאפארוסקופי מיושמת במיגוון גדל והולך של ניתוחים. כריתת קיבה לאפארוסקופית בשל אדנוקראצינומה של הקיבה בוצעה בחולים ספורים בלבד. במאמר זה מובא ניסיוננו בכריתה תת-שלמה של הקיבה בשיטה הלאפארוסקופית ב-4 חולים שלקו באדנוקאצינומה של הקיבה.

למרות זמן ניתוח ארוך במקצת מהמקובל ומשך אישפוז הדומה לזה שבגישה הפתוחה, המהלך הבתר-ניתוחי הקל והיעדר סיבוכים הקשורים לניתוח מצדיקים את יישומה של שיטה זו.
 

פיטר סמוק, בוריס גורביץ, זהר דותן, דיב זבידה, דניאל גבע וטיבריו עזרי

המטרה במחקר הנוכחי היתה בדיקת המשמעות הקלינית ועלות בדיקות מעבדה ובדיקות עזר כסקר טרום-ניתוחי בחולים צעירים בבית-חולים ציבורי בישראל.

מתוך מטרה לברר את המשמעות הקלינית ביחס לעלות של בדיקות מעבדה ובדיקות עזר טרום-ניתוחיות בבית-חולים ציבורי בישראל, נסקרו תיקיהם של 300 חולים צעירים (18-40 שנה) שהוגדרו כ- ASA 1 על פי סולם סיכון ההרדמה של איגוד המרדימים האמריקאי (ASA). משמעות חיובית של בדיקות מעבדה ובדיקות עזר הוגדרה כשתוצאות הבדיקות הובילו לקביעת אבחנה חדשה, לעיכוב הניתוח או לדחייתו.

מתוך 300 חולים, בקרב 34 (11%) נמצאו בבדיקות מעבדה ובדיקות עזר טרום-ניתוחיות מימצאים פתולוגיים. בקרב 31 (91%) מהם נמצא קשר ישיר בין הבדיקה הפתולוגית לבין האנאמנזה או מימצאי הבדיקה הגופנית. אצל אף אחד מהחולים לא נמצאה יותר מבדיקה פתולוגית אחת.

מכלל 300 החולים, בשלושה חולים בלבד נקבעה אבחנה שלא היתה ידועה, ומתוכם לחולה אחד בלבד היתה האבחנה שנקבעה בעלת משמעות קלינית.

העלות הכוללת של בדיקות המעבדה ובדיקות העזר הטרום-ניתוחיות לחולים שנכללו בעבודה היתה 114,000 ש"ח.

ניתן היה לחסוך מעלות זו 104,000 (93%) לו היו נמנעים מביצוע בדיקות קדם-ניתוחיות לחולים ללא אנאמנזה או מימצאים בבדיקה הגופנית. אנו סבורים שניתן להימנע מביצוע בדיקות קדם-ניתוחיות בקבוצת החולים הצעירים עד גיל 40 שנה ללא אנאמנזה או מימצאים בבדיקה הגופנית, הזקוקים לניתוחים קטנים, זאת מבלי לחשוף אותם לסיכון נוסף.

שמואל עברון, אוסקר סדן, טיבריו עזרי ומרק גלזרמן

תיסמונת הכשל החיסוני הנרכש (תכח"נ) (AIDS) פרצה לפני כעשרים שנה, אך למרות זאת היא ממשיכה להתקדם לקראת פנדמיה. מעל 50 מיליון בני-אדם נדבקו במחלה ו-20 מיליון נפטרו ממנה. שני שלישים מכלל 36 מיליון הנשים של נגיף הכשל החיסוני הנרכש (HIV) (נכח"נ) מצויים באפריקה.

במדינת ישראל דווח עד דצמבר 2000 על 2,843 נשאים ו-165 חולים. אולם מספר הנשאים הוא ככל הנראה גדול יותר.

בהנחה שמספר הנשאים ימשיך לעלות, יש לצפות למספר גובר והולך של נשאיות נכח"נ הרות המגיעות לחדרי הניתוח או לחדרי הלידה. על המילדים, המרדימים והמנתחים להיות מודעים למחלה ולהכירה היטב, על-מנת להיות מודעים לכל השלכותיה על שיטות ההרדמה וליחסי-הגומלין בין חומרי ההרדמה לתרופות הניתנות לחולות אלה.

כמו-כן, מידע לגישות הטיפוליות החדשות כלפי יולדות, המבוססות על המיטען הנגיפי ודרגת החיסון של נשאיות נכח"נ או החולות בתכח"נ החיוני להפחתת שיעור ההדבקה. על הצוות הרפואי המטפל מוטלת האחריות לבצע הליכים טיפוליים בצורה בטוחה, תוך נקיטת אמצעי הזהירות הנדרשים.

סולי מזרחי

המח' לכירורגיה א', מרכז רפואי סורוקה, הפקולטה למדעי הבריאות, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, באר שבע

בחמש עשרה השנים האחרונות של המאה העשרים החלה להתחולל מהפכה שקטה, ואנו עדים להתעצמותה במילניום הנוכחי. המהפכה נגזרת מהתפתחות היכולת לנצל אמצעים אופטיים המוחדרים לתוך כללי הגוף דרך נקבים בדופנותיהם, על מנת לחזות בנעשה בתוכם בתצוגה על גבי צג מחשב. ביסוד מהפכה זו מונחת התפיסה, שכל ניתוח המתבצע בשיטה זו ממזער את הפגיעה בשלמות חללי גוף החולה, את שיעור התחלואה המיידי ואת הסיבוכים המאוחרים הנגרמים מעצם ביצוע חתכי הכניסה לחלל המנותח וסגירתם. מכאן מקור הכינוי לגישה ניתוחית זו – זעיר-פולשנית (minimally invasive). הדינמיקה של מהפכה זו הביאה לשיפור היכולות לבצע פעולות פולשניות מורכבות בחללי הגוף, תוך התאמה ושידרוג של המיכשור המתוחכם לצורת התערבות ניתוחית "אחרת" זו, מובן מאליו, שמערכת המכשירים שבהם מסתייע המנתח בשיטה הזעיר-פולשנית כיום, תהיה זרה וחסרת משמעות למנתחים ותיקים של עידן הניתוחים השמרניים הפתוחים.

Surgery in Patients over 100 Years of age 5-Year Experience (1995-2000)

Victor Ginzburg¹, Gabriel Szendro¹, Luis Golcman¹, Natan Weksler², Shemuel Yurfest¹, Yefim Charach¹

The Departments of Vascular Surgery¹ and Anesthesiology², Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheba, Israel

The age distribution of a given national population is of utmost importance when dealing with public health and analyzing the use of various national health facilities. This is based on the totally different use of health sources by different age groups. Despite continuous prolongation of life expectancy and the related aging of the western hospitalized population the sub-group of patients over 100 year old of age is unusual demographically and accounts for only a very small portion of the total number of patients hospitalized in surgical wards. During the 5 year experience between 1995 and 2000 seventeen such patients were admitted to our surgical departments. Eight of those underwent 11 operations with zero peri-operative mortality and no significant complications. These 11 operations in this elderly population are the basis of our report.

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery: Experience with 586 Patients

R. Galili, N. Nesher, R. Sharony, G. Uretzy, M. Saute

Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Carmel Medical Center and Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa

Recent advances in optics, video systems and endoscopic operating instruments have led to increasing application of thoracoscopic surgery, as it has become easier to perform and more accurate.

We performed 586 video-assisted thoracic surgical procedures for diagnosis and treatment (May 1992-Dec. 1998) 127 were for diagnostic thoracoscopy and 79 for pleurodesis. 380 cases of operative thoracoscopy included pulmonary wedge resection (for interstitial lung disease, benign and malignant pulmonary tumors and pulmonary metastases) bullectomy, management of empyema, pleural tumor biopsy, thoracic sympathectomy, pericardial window formation, thoracic spinal procedures and resection of posterior mediastinal cysts. Recently we have had good experience in evacuating blood and blood clots from the thorax which accumulated after cardiac and thoracic surgery.

Patients were placed in the lateral thoracotomy position and were ventilated with a double-lumen endotracheal tube, enabling collapse of the operated lung. The operating approach was through 1-3 thoracic ports. Mean operation time was 55 minutes, chest-tubes remained for 2.2 days (mean) and mean hospitalization was 3.3 days. There were no wound infections or significant postoperative complications. 5 patients had air leaks longer than 7 days; none required further surgical intervention.

There was intercostal neuralgia and Horner's syndrome after thoracic sympathectomy (1 each) In cases in which localizing the parenchymal lesion was difficult, the lung was palpated directly by inserting a finger through a small incision or a mini-thoracotomy. Conversion to thoracotomy was performed when primary malignancy of lung was diagnosed by frozen section. Only 2 patients had thoracotomy for uncontrolled bleeding. Thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive surgical technique with very low morbidity and high diagnostic accuracy. Postoperative recovery is brief and uneventful.
 

Endoscopic Sinus Surgery for Extracranial Complications of Sinusitis

E. Deutsch, I. Hevron

ENT Dept., Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem

Orbital subperiosteal abscess (SPA) and Pott's puffy tumor (PPT) are the major extracranial complications of acute sinusitis. These complications are aggravated by the close anatomic relationships between the nasal sinuses and the orbits and frontal bone. Furthermore, the rich diploic venous drainage of the region enhances the spread of the infection.

Between 1992 and 1997, 16 patients (mean age 12 years, range 2-15, 10 of them males), 11 of them with SPA and 4 with PPT were operated on by the senior author by means of endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS). Indications for operation included: CT findings of abscess formation and lack of clinical improvement after 48 hours of IV antibiotic therapy. Clinical resolution of symptoms was achieved in all and there were no operative or postoperative complications.

We emphasize and explain the advantages of ESS over external approaches in surgery for extracranial complications of acute sinusitis by several facts: the technique treats the source of the disease, clinical success rate is high, morbidity is low, and facial distortion and poor cosmetic results completely avoided.

One-Stage Surgery for Hirschsprung's Disease in Children

Mark Weinberg, Baruch Klin, Itzhak Vinograd

Dept. of Pediatric Surgery, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Traditionally Hirschsprung's disease has been treated by 2-or 3-stage procedures. During the past 6 years a 1-stage Duhamel procedure without stoma has become our treatment of choice for Hirschsprung's disease in neonates and young infants. Over a 6-year period, 15 infants and children with colonic Hirschsprung's disease were treated with the 1-stage Duhamel retro-rectal pull-through procedure without a stoma, with the Lester-Martin modification. All patients had the usual short segment aganglionosis, but 1 had a long segment which included the splenic flexure.

Early complications included wound infection in 1 and minor rectal bleeding in 3. Late complications included constipation in 1 and enterocolitis in 4. Long-term functional results were very good in all those operated except for 1 with rectal achalasia.

We conclude that Hirschsprung's disease can be successfully treated with a 1-stage pull-through operation, the child usually benefitting from the shorter hospital stay and the avoidance of a colostomy.

Burns in Children in Israel: Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment

Arieh Eldad

Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces and Burns Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem

45% of all hospitalized burn casualties in Israel are children younger than 16 years old. In various hospitals they make up 30-60% of all burn casualties, depending on the proportion of children in the area of hospital intake, social and economic factors and the type of hospital. Length of hospitalization of children is shorter than that of the general population (7.3 vs 9.0 days). Scalding is the main cause of thermal injuries among babies and infants (70%), while fire burns are the most common causes among adolescents (56.5%); 90% of babies are injured at home; only 40% of adolescents are burned in home accidents.

In Israel, burned children are treated in 25 different hospitals and in departments of pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, general surgery, pediatrics or burn departments. There is no pediatric burn unit in Israel.

Malignant Eccrine Poroma

R. Silfen, A. Amir, M. Feinmesser, D.J. Hauben

Dept. of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and Pathology Dept., Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson Campus), Petah Tikva

Malignant eccrine poroma (MEP) is rare and both clinical and histologic diagnosis is often difficult. Therefore, diagnosis is sometimes delayed or even incorrect. We report a case in a 70-year old man with MEP of the leg. He demonstrated typical MEP behavior and the problems of differential diagnosis.

Retroperitoneoscopic Lumbar Sympathectomy

D. Seror, O Zamir, D. Eimerl, H.R. Freund

Depts. of Surgery and Anesthesia, Hadassah University Hospital, Mount Scopus and Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem

We present our initial experience with retroperitoneoscopic lumbar sympathectomy in a series of 5 men aged 25-45 years. 3 suffered from ischemia of the lower limbs due to Buerger's disease, 1 had severe reflex sympathetic dystrophy and 1 had vasculitis with severe, non-healing lower leg ulcers.

The right retroperitoneal space was developed with a dissecting balloon-trocar introduced via a small lateral muscle- splitting flank incision. 2 additional 5 mm trocars were used for instrumentation and clipping. L2-L3 or L3-L4 ganglia were resected; mean operating time was 120 minutes. Only oral analgesics were needed for postoperative pain control and oral food intake was resumed the following morning. The procedure was successful in all and was without complications. Mean hospital stay was 2 days.

All patients reported significant relief of ischemia or dystrophic pain and/or improvement in trophic changes in the extremities. In the patient with leg ulcers, the largest was successfully covered with a skin graft. The retroperitoneoscopic approach to lumbar sympathectomy successfully combines the advantages of minimal invasive surgery and the reliability and effectiveness of well-established open sympathectomy.

Nephron-Sparing Surgery - Initial Experience with 50 Patients

Sarel Halachmi, Alexander Kastin, Boaz Moskovitz, Ofer Nativ

Urology Dept., Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa

During recent years the use of the new imaging techniques, ultrasonography and computerized tomography, has increased. The accessibility to these methods has changed the pattern of detection of renal lesions. Over 90% of renal masses are now discovered incidentally, while investigating nonurological symptoms. Therefor, most lesions are discovered in their early stages.

The gold-standard procedure for removing renal masses is radical nephrectomy, which ensures complete removal of an organ-confined lesion, but involves loss of functional tissue. This might be critical in patients with a single kidney, or reduced nephron function. There are several diseases characterized by multiple renal lesions, such as Von Hippel-Lindau and tuberous sclerosis in which radical treatment may lead to chronic dialysis in young patients.

Nephron-sparing surgery was developed in order to preserve as much functional tissue as possible while removing safely any suspicious renal lesion. This new technique, not involving radical surgery, should be evaluated in cases of renal tumors for its ability to achieve the same cancer cures rates. We present our experience with our first 50 patients who underwent nephron-sparing surgery for removal of renal lesions.
 

Preliminary Report of Experience with Laparoscopic Splenectomy

Joseph Kuriansky, Ron Bilik, Moshe Shabtai, Itamar Avigad, Amram Ayalon

Depts. of General Surgery and Transplantation and Pediatric Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer; and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Laparoscopic splenectomy is effective and technically feasible for treating various hematological diseases such as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), congenital sphero„cytosis, hemolytic anemia, and Hodgkin's lymphoma. An anterior approach to the vascular pedicle is usually described. However, in this approach to the splenic hilum, the dissection of the splenic artery is frequently difficult. The laparoscopic posterolateral approach involves dissection of the posterolateral attachments to the diaphragm, followed by the disection and ligation of all splenic branches near the splenic parenchyma. We used it in 9 adults and 4 children: 11 patients had ITP, 1 spherocytosis and 1 Hodgkin's lymphoma.

This procedure was completed in 13 patients, but in 2 it had to be converted to open surgery. Mean operating time was 3 hours and mean postoperative stay 3 days. Blood transfusion was not required and there were no postoperative complications.

Laparoscopic splenectomy is safe in both adults and children, and the posterolateral approach provides excellent visualization and allows control of the branches of the splenic vein and artery in the splenic hilum.

Tension-Free "Plug and Patch" Inguinal Hernia Repair

Y. Mintz, D. Goitein, M. Muggia-Sullam

Dept. of General Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem

Inguinal hernias are common and have highly variable clinical presentations, ranging from the asymptomatic to surgical emergencies when incarcerated, sometimes necessitating bowel resection. Several techniques have been described for repair of inguinal hernias based on the unique anatomic structure of the inguinal region. In 1989 Lichtenstein and co-workers described a "tension free" repair based on using a synthetic mesh patch to reinforce the inguinal canal floor and as a plug to prevent recurrence through the internal inguinal ring. This technique has been used in many centers worldwide with good rates of success.

Thoracoscopic Surgery for Spon-Taneous Pneumothorax

H.R. Freund, O. Zamir, Y. Shifman, N. Beglaibter, Y. Haskel

Hadassah University Hospital, Mount Scopus and Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem

We report our initial experience with thoracoscopic surgery in the treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax in 14 patients, mean age 30.7 years. 7 were operated following 2 episodes of spontaneous pneumothorax, 6 after their first episode, and 1 after multiple episodes.

All underwent bleb resection, pleurodesis and tube thoracostomy; in 1 we converted to a limited thoracotomy (93% success rate). Only oral analgesia was required for postoperative pain control and patients were discharged 2.6 days after surgery, on average.

The apparent superiority of thoracoscopic over conventional, even limited, thoracotomy seems to justify such therapy even during the first episode.