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Gaspar DP, Vital J, Leiva MC, Gonçalves LM, Taboada P, Remuñán-López C, Vítor J, Almeida AJ. Transfection of pulmonary cells by stable pDNA-polycationic hybrid nanostructured particles. Nanomedicine (Lond) 2019; 14:407-429. [PMID: 30698066 DOI: 10.2217/nnm-2018-0270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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AIM Cationically modified solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) were investigated as plasmid DNA (pDNA) carriers and transfection agents for the pulmonary route. MATERIALS & METHODS pDNA-loaded SLN were produced using glyceryl dibehenate or tristearate as matrix lipids and chitosan as surface charge modifier, and encapsulated by spray-drying in mannitol and trehalose microspheres. RESULTS Nanoparticles of 200 nm, and zeta potential around +15 mV were produced. Electrophorectic analysis confirmed plasmid stability and integrity. The pDNA-loaded SLN were able to transfect the Calu-3 and A549 pulmonary cell lines, while showing low cytotoxicity. Microencapsulation of SLN yielded dry powders suitable for inhalation that protected pDNA from degradation. CONCLUSION Microencapsulated SLN are a promising safe and effective carrier system for pulmonary gene delivery following pulmonary administration.
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- Diana P Gaspar
- Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003 Lisbon, Portugal.,Nanobiofar Group, Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Institute of Biopatology & Regenerative Medicine (IBIMER), Biomedical Research Center (CIBM), 18071 Granada, Spain.,Department of Anatomy & Embryology, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain.,Biosanitary Institute of Granada (ibs.GRANADA), SAS - University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003 Lisbon, Portugal
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- Colloids & Polymers Physics Group, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Nanobiofar Group, Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry & Human Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003 Lisbon, Portugal
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- Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003 Lisbon, Portugal
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Borges Dinis P, Matos T, Sardinha M, Alves P, Vital J, Carvalho A, Vitor J. Helicobacter pylori in both the sinuses and the stomach. RHINOL 2018. [DOI: 10.4193/rhinol/18.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Montoya C, Paninho A, Felix P, Zakrzewska M, Vital J, Najdanovic-Visak V, Nunes A. Styrene carbonate synthesis from CO2 using tetrabutylammonium bromide as a non-supported heterogeneous catalyst phase. J Supercrit Fluids 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2015.01.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ceia T, Silva A, Ribeiro C, Pinto J, Casimiro M, Ramos A, Vital J. PVA composite catalytic membranes for hyacinth flavour synthesis in a pervaporation membrane reactor. Catal Today 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2014.02.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Sousa VC, Vital J, Costenla AR, Batalha VL, Sebastião AM, Ribeiro JA, Lopes LV. Maternal separation impairs long term-potentiation in CA1-CA3 synapses and hippocampal-dependent memory in old rats. Neurobiol Aging 2014; 35:1680-5. [PMID: 24559649 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.01.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2013] [Revised: 01/09/2014] [Accepted: 01/21/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Exposure to chronic stress during the neonatal period is known to induce permanent long-term changes in the central nervous system and hipothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis reactivity that are associated with increased levels of depression, anxiety, and cognitive impairments. In rodents, a validated model of early life stress is the maternal separation (MS) paradigm, which has been shown to have long-term consequences for the pups that span to adulthood. We hypothesized that the early life stress-associated effects could be exacerbated with aging, because it is often accompanied by cognitive decline. Using a MS model in which rat pups were separated from their mothers for 3 hours daily, during postnatal days 2-14, we evaluated the long-term functional consequences to aged animals (70-week-old), by measuring synaptic plasticity and cognitive performance. The baseline behavioral deficits of aged control rats were further exacerbated in MS animals, indicating that early-life stress induces sustained changes in anxiety-like behavior and hippocampal-dependent memory that are maintained much later in life. We then investigated whether these differences are linked to impaired function of hippocampal neurons by recording hippocampal long-term potentiation from Schaffer collaterals/CA1 synapses. The magnitude of the hippocampal long-term potentiation induced by high-frequency stimulation was significantly lower in aged MS animals than in age-matched controls. These results substantiate the hypothesis that the neuronal and endocrine alterations induced by early-life stress are long lasting, and are able to exacerbate the mild age-associated deficits.
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- Vasco C Sousa
- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; Institute of Pharmacology and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; Institute of Pharmacology and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; Institute of Pharmacology and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Casimiro M, Silva A, Alvarez R, Ferreira L, Ramos A, Vital J. PVA supported catalytic membranes obtained by γ-irradiation for biodiesel production. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2013.05.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Casimiro M, Silva A, Pinto J, Ramos A, Vital J, Ferreira L. Catalytic poly(vinyl alcohol) functionalized membranes obtained by gamma irradiation. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2012.01.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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de Almeida G, Escada P, Vital J, O'Neill J, Branco G. Glomus Jugulare Tumors. A Series of 24 Cases. Skull Base Surg 2012. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1314303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Galhardo L, Vital J, Oliveira RF. The role of predictability in the stress response of a cichlid fish. Physiol Behav 2010; 102:367-72. [PMID: 21145905 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.11.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2010] [Revised: 11/24/2010] [Accepted: 11/30/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the cognitive abilities of fish with implications for animal welfare and management of rearing operations. Although it is known that psychological factors can modulate the stress response in mammals, this aspect has seldom been investigated within stress in fish. In this study we investigate whether the perception (appraisal) that fish make of significant environmental events modifies their behavioural and physiological response. For this purpose we have used a predictable vs. unpredictable paradigm for positive (feeding) and negative (confinement) events using the cichlid fish Oreochromis mossambicus as a model species. Results show that there is a differential effect of predictability for the feeding and confinement events. In the confinement experiment, predictability involved more attention to the visual cue and lower cortisol. The feeding event triggered higher levels of anticipatory behaviour and a tendency for higher cortisol in the predictable group. Therefore, predictable negative events reduce the cortisol response. Predictable positive events may elicit an anticipatory response, and when there is a significant delay between the visual cue and the actual occurrence of the event, it may also contain elements that can be interpreted as a stress response. These findings demonstrate that fish can appraise relevant aspects of the environment, with welfare implications for housing, husbandry and experimental procedures.
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- Leonor Galhardo
- Unidade de Investigação em Eco-Etologia, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Rua Jardim do Tabaco, 34, 1149-041 Lisboa, Portugal.
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Guerreiro L, Pereira P, Fonseca I, Martin-Aranda R, Ramos A, Dias J, Oliveira R, Vital J. PVA embedded hydrotalcite membranes as basic catalysts for biodiesel synthesis by soybean oil methanolysis. Catal Today 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2010.04.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Pito DS, Fonseca IM, Ramos AM, Vital J, Castanheiro JE. Hydrolysis of sucrose using sulfonated poly(vinyl alcohol) as catalyst. Bioresour Technol 2009; 100:4546-4550. [PMID: 19464882 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.04.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2009] [Revised: 04/24/2009] [Accepted: 04/27/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The hydrolysis of sucrose was carried out over poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) with sulfonic acid groups, at 80 degrees C. The products of sucrose hydrolysis were glucose and fructose. A series of PVA with different crosslinking degree were prepared. It was observed that the catalytic activity of PVA matrix increases with the crosslinking degree, due to the increases of the amount of sulfonic acid groups on PVA. Further, the influence of various reaction parameters, such as, catalyst loading, initial concentration of sucrose and temperature, on the hydrolysis of sucrose over PVA_40 was studied. It was found that at 80 degrees C, with 0.511 g of catalyst loading and with an initial concentration of sucrose of 0.6M, a sucrose conversion of about 90%, after 3h, could be obtained. The PVA_40 catalyst was recycled and reused with negligible loss in the activity. A simple kinetic model was developed assuming that the sucrose hydrolysis is an irreversible reaction and the first order with respect to the sucrose concentration. Since the concentration profiles of the reactant and the products do not exhibit any pronounced initial inductive period, the external and internal diffusion of the reactant and products on the catalyst were not considered. It was observed that the kinetic model fits experimental concentration data quite well.
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- D S Pito
- Centro de Química de Evora, Departamento de Química, Universidade de Evora, Evora, Portugal
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Ferreira P, Fonseca I, Ramos A, Vital J, Castanheiro J. Esterification of glycerol with acetic acid over dodecamolybdophosphoric acid encaged in USY zeolite. CATAL COMMUN 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.catcom.2008.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Oliveira P, Machado A, Ramos A, Fonseca I, Braz Fernandes F, Botelho do Rego A, Vital J. Anchoring manganese acetylacetonate complex on MCM-41: Catalytic testing on limonene oxidation. CATAL COMMUN 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.catcom.2006.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Angouridakis N, Zaraboukas T, Vital J, Vital V. Sinonasal hemangiopericytoma of the middle turbinate: a case report and brief review of the literature. B-ENT 2007; 3:139-143. [PMID: 17970438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023] Open
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Hemangiopericytomas (HPCs) are rare vascular neoplasms that arise from the pericytes of Zimmerman. They account for 2-3% of all soft tissue sarcomas in humans and they occur mainly in the musculoskeletal system. 15 to 30% of all HPCs occur in the head and neck region. Only 5% are located in the sinonasal region, where they display a more benign behaviour than in other parts of the body. We will describe a case of a right-sided HPC, in the posterior third of the middle turbinate. We will also discuss the epidemiology, the macro- and microscopical characteristics, the clinical and pathological findings and the treatment of this particular neoplasia.
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- N Angouridakis
- Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Department, AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Guerreiro L, Fonseca I, Martin-Aranda RM, Ramos AM, Botelho do Rego AM, Vital J. Preparation and Catalytic Testing of Sulfonic Acid Functionalized Activated Carbons. PHOSPHORUS SULFUR 2006. [DOI: 10.1080/10426500590913258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- L. Guerreiro
- a Rede de Qu'i mica e Tecnologia, Centro de Qu'imica Fina e Biotechnologia, Departamento de Qu'imica, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, caparica , Portugal
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- a Rede de Qu'i mica e Tecnologia, Centro de Qu'imica Fina e Biotechnologia, Departamento de Qu'imica, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, caparica , Portugal
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- b Departamento de Qu'i mica Inorgânica y Qu'i mica Técnica, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia , Madrid, Spain
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- c Rede de Qu'i mica e Tecnologia, Centro de Qu'i mica Fina e Biotechnologia, Departamento de Qu'i mica, Faculdade de Ciênias e Technologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica , Portugal
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- d Centro de Qu'i mica-F'i scia e Molecular, Complexo Interdisciplinar, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa , Portugal
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- e Rede de Qu'i mica e Tecnologia, Centro de Qu 'imica Fina e Biotechnologia, Departamento de Qu'i mica, Faculdade de Ciênias e Technologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica , Portugal
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Castanheiro J, Ramos A, Fonseca I, Vital J. The acid-catalysed reaction of α-pinene over molybdophosphoric acid immobilised in dense polymeric membranes. Catal Today 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5861(03)00232-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Vital J, Ramos A, Silva I, Castanheiro J. The effect of α-terpineol on the hydration of α-pinene over zeolites dispersed in polymeric membranes. Catal Today 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5861(01)00289-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Cabana F, Pointillart V, Vital J, Sénégas J. [Postoperative compressive spinal epidural hematomas. 15 cases and a review of the literature]. Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot 2000; 86:335-45. [PMID: 10880933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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PURPOSE OF THE STUDY In the literature, the frequency of postoperative compressive spinal epidural hematomas (SEH) appearing very low, we conducted the present study to determine the frequency of this complication in their unit and look for causative and predisposing factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS Among the 1,487 spinal operations performed in our unit between September 1997 and August 1998, fifteen patients had postoperative compressive SEH; their files were retrospectively analyzed regarding the initial intervention, postoperative period, revision operation and neurologic follow-up. RESULTS Five women and ten men were involved ranging in age from 47 to 70 years (average, 59.5 years). The primary intervention concerned the cervical spine in one case, the thoracic spine in seven and the lumbar spine in seven. Ten of the fifteen cases including all seven of the thoracic SEH (performed for compressive metastatic epiduritis) involved a laminectomy. A stenotic canal was the indication for the primary intervention in six of the seven lumbar cases. The average delay before onset of symptoms was 1.5 hours, 3.7 hours, and 5.3 hours after the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar interventions, respectively. The clinical pattern began with segmental pain rapidly followed first by bilateral radicular sensory deficit, then unilateral or bilateral motor deficit, except in the patients with thoracic SEH in whom segmental pain was followed by signs of cord impingement. Excluding the four cases in which diagnosis was retarded by work-up examinations (3 cases) or a misleading picture (1 case), revision surgery was performed from 1.25 to 4 hours after onset of symptoms (average, 2.75 hours). In the patients for whom reoperation was delayed, SEH resulted in permanent complete paralysis or sphincter dysfunction. In contrast, eight of the ten patients who were reoperated within four hours of the onset of symptoms either recovered completely or recovered their former neurologic status. DISCUSSION Compressive SEH after spinal surgery is rare, only 41 cases having been reported aside from the series of Deburge et al. In the literature, the frequency is around 1 to 2 for 1000 operations for some authors, as opposed to 3 p. 100 and 6 p. 100 found by two other groups. The 1 p. 100 of the present series is close to the latter values. Nonetheless, it is probably important to take the type of surgery into account, as shown by the current series in which SEH occurred after 5.9 p. 100 of the operations for metastasis, but only once out of 304 anterior cervical interventions. To reduce the risk as much as possible, it is important to be aware of the factors that may contribute to this complication. Several recommendations concerning prevention of SEH are thus discussed. Once SEH has occurred, the only modifiable prognostic factor appears to be the delay before reintervention. CONCLUSION Although postoperative SEH is relatively rare, it may have dramatic consequences. In our opinion, reintervention must be performed as soon as possible after the onset of neurologic deficit, the work-up investigations only prolonging the critical surgical delay, which is probably the only alterable prognostic factor.
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- F Cabana
- Centre Universitaire de Santé de l'Estrie (C.U.S.E.), 3001, 12, avenue nord, Fleurimont, Québec, Canada, J1H 5N4
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Mouchet A, Guivarc'h M, Nathan G, Picard J, Vital J. [Cystic retroperitoneal lymphangioma with chylous content opacified by lymphangiography. Apropos of a case]. Chirurgie 1975; 101:68-73. [PMID: 1212896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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