scholarly journals A Case of a 5-Year-Old Boy with a Blauth Type IIIB Hypoplastic Thumb Reconstructed with a Nonvascularized, Hemilongitudinal Metatarsal Transfer

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mika Nakada ◽  
Kaoru Tada ◽  
Tadahiro Nakajima ◽  
Masashi Matsuta ◽  
Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

The treatment methods used for Blauth type IIIB hypoplastic thumbs are controversial. We performed a nonvascularized, hemilongitudinal metatarsal bone transfer on a 5-year-old boy with a type IIIB hypoplastic thumb. Despite the child’s age, the growth of the thumb was confirmed and the thumb had stabilized. Moreover, growth disorder of the donor toe was not observed. This method is relatively easy to perform. And donor toe deformation can be prevented, because of the preservation of more than half of the metatarsal bone. In our case, the patient was 5 years of age; nevertheless, the epiphyseal line was opened and the grafted metatarsal bone grew. This method is useful in terms of its simplicity and prevention of postoperative complications.

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 738-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. S. Chow ◽  
P. C. Ho ◽  
W. L. Tse ◽  
L. K. Hung

The treatment of hypoplastic thumb (modified Blauth’s type IIIb and IV) by pollicization is culturally unfavourable in the Chinese population and digit preservation is preferred. An innovative reconstruction method using a nonvascularized hemi-longitudinal metatarsal graft was performed in six cases with an average follow-up of 87.7 months. Overall hand function was good, as assessed using the Jebsen hand function test. Grip strength and pinch power were significantly weaker than the normal contralateral hand. There was no neurovascular or wound complication. The only donor site complication was a metatarsal fracture, which healed uneventfully with casting. There had been no permanent morbidity to the donor site, as all donor metatarsals hypertrophied and regained normal growth potentials. Linear growth of the transferred metatarsals was evident radiologically (average 1.5 mm/year). Free hemi-longitudinal metatarsal transfer is a feasible method with good functional outcome in the attainment of a 5-digit hand in patients with type IIIb/IV hypoplastic thumb.


2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 009-016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Foucher ◽  
Jose Medina ◽  
Ricardo Navarro

2014 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Salih Basat ◽  
Cagdas Orman ◽  
Turgut Kayadibi ◽  
Ilker scetin ◽  
Mehmet Bozkurt

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ze Xiang ◽  
Yiqi Li ◽  
Chaojie Zhu ◽  
Tu Hong ◽  
Xianglin He ◽  
...  

Liver cirrhosis tends to increase the risk in the management of gastrointestinal tumors. Patients with gastrointestinal cancers and liver cirrhosis often have serious postoperative complications and poor prognosis after surgery. Multiple studies have shown that the stage of gastrointestinal cancers and the grade of cirrhosis can influence surgical options and postoperative complications. The higher the stage of cancer and the poorer the degree of cirrhosis, the less the surgical options and the higher the risk of postoperative complications. Therefore, in the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal cancer and liver cirrhosis, clinicians should comprehensively consider the cancer stage, cirrhosis grade, and possible postoperative complications. This review summarizes the treatment methods of patients with different gastrointestinal cancer complicated with liver cirrhosis.


Microsurgery ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 468-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Schneider ◽  
B. Reichert ◽  
N. Pallua ◽  
H. Meyer

Author(s):  
A. M. Khajibayev ◽  
R. I. Rakhimov ◽  
A. A. Nabiev ◽  
A. G. Mahamadaminov

Introduction. This article is devoted to one of the urgent problems of modern emergency abdominal surgery – the result of surgical treatment of ulcer bleed in patients with ischemic heart disease.Undoubtedly intensive hemostatic conservative therapy and endoscopic hemostasis methods are the main treatment methods for this group of patients. However, in a certain number of patients with NGDK with various variants of IHD, such treatment is ineffective and there is a need to perform surgical hemostasis in an emergency and urgently.Surgical methods of hemostasis of NGDK patients with different variants of IHD are shown only in cases of inefficiency of conservative and endoscopic treatment methods. Among surgical interventions, radical surgeries are more preferable, which, if performed against the background of intensive resuscitation support, allow to achieve reliable hemostasis and thus avoid postoperative recurrent bleeding. Palliative surgery should be used when radical surgery is not possible due to the severity of the patient’s condition or lack of technical skill of surgeons. Finally, it is clear that in order to improve treatment results in patients in this category, correction of changes caused by the accompanying IHD is necessary.Materials and methods: In our research material, 89 out of 997 patients had such a need, which was 8.9%. It mainly corresponds to the modern literature data.Results: An analysis of the results of these patients’ palliative and radical surgical interventions clearly showed that the last ones were more preferable.The basis for this judgment was the high percentage of mortality after palliative care compared to radical care with approximately the same number of postoperative complications.In addition, it is noteworthy that postoperative complications typical of palliative care in the form of recurrent ulcerative bleeding are often fatal, because half of these patients in our observations have not experienced repeated radical interventions.Conclusion: At the same time, the necessary condition for performing radical operations is, firstly, appropriate technical skill of the surgeon, and secondly, providing the latter with intensive resuscitation support. In case of impossibility of performance of these conditions the method of a choice should serve palliative care.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Ke Liu ◽  
Yonghong Wang ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Na Luo ◽  
Juan Gong ◽  
...  

Adding timely rehabilitation surgery is an optimized perioperative measure that can reduce physical stress, reduce surgical risks, and postoperative complications and promote the recovery of organ function. Therefore, it is of great value to study its application in gastrointestinal surgery (GS). To this end, this article applies retrospective analysis and statistical methods to conduct targeted investigations and studies on GS patients. The results of the survey showed that 26.7% of patients were effective in ARS and 40% were effective in treatment. Compared with traditional treatment methods, its effective treatment rate is 13.4% higher.


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