Animal Resources in the Economy of Medieval Moldova: Archaeozoological Case Study of the Urban Settlement from Târgu Neamț (NE Romania)

This study aims to contribute to the knowledge of the medieval Moldovan economy by evaluating animal resources (e.g., animal husbandry, hunting, fishing) based on the skeletal remains found in archaeologic sites from northeastern Romania and the Republic of Moldova. Animal remains, especially those from the urban settlement of the 14th-16th centuries from Târgu Neamţ (NE Romania), were described in terms of their frequencies (i.e., number of identified specimens and minimum number of individuals), morphometry, and livestock management (i.e., animal selection by age and sex). The results were compared with those obtained from other settlements-rural, urban, and fortress-from medieval Moldova. Correspondence analysis of the identified animals and settlements on the basis of the frequency values reveals associations between the two variables (animal species and settlement).

[Our experience with esophagogastric hemorrhages]

A study was made of 129 cases of upper digestive hemorrhage in patients with portal hypertension admitted at the Surgical Clinic of the Institute of Medicine of Chişinău. About 30% of the patients were late admitted, this delay being due to a misjudgment of patients' state and unawareness of the possibility a new and fatal hemorrhage may occur. A change in Blakemore tube design was done. Its use together with the routine hemostatic therapy resulted in hemostasis and discharge of 42% of the admitted patients. When conservative treatment failed and a recurrence of hemorrhage was imminent, emergency surgery was performed. The Tanner-Petrov surgery, splenorenal anastomosis and various types of organopexy combined with splenectomy proved to be the most successful. General lethality in the patients subjected to these surgeries was 6.2%, a smaller figure than that mentioned in the literature.