Infectious Complications of Hepatic Cryosurgery

Infectious complications of hepatic cryosurgery.

Hepatic cryosurgery is a novel procedure for patients with metastatic liver disease. To date, no reviews of the infectious complications of this procedure have been published. One hundred and fifty patients underwent 158 hepatic cryosurgical procedures at Allegheny General Hospital (Pittsburgh) from November 1987 through July 1995. Gastrointestinal malignancies accounted for 93% of the underlyi...

Cryosurgery on the Treatment of Hepatic Tumors.

BACKGROUND: Primary and metastatic tumors in the liver are difficult to treat. When surgical resection is not feasible, cryotherapy is one of the several alternative approaches. METHODS: The data on outcomes from hepatic resections are reviewed, and the rationale and techniques of performing cryosurgery for unresectable hepatic cancers are described. The literature is reviewed and combined with...

Experimental and clinical observations on hepatic cryosurgery for colorectal metastases.

Cryosurgery, using liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees C, was explored for treating colorectal liver metastases in an experimental study of rat colon cancer and in a clinical investigation of patients with unresectable liver tumors. The viability of rat colon cancer isografts showed that while two or three freeze-thaw cycles were 100% effective in controlling established isografts and preventing is...

Infectious Complications in Hematology

Post-induction aplasia for acute myeloid leukemia (AML)/myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) is a period at highrisk for invasive fungal disease (IFD). Invasive aspergillosis (IA) remains the commonest cause of IFD and crude mortality remains considerable at 33-47%. For patients surviving IFDs, delays or modifications to curative chemotherapy may compromise long-term prognosis. Poor clinical outcome...

Respiratory complications of infectious diseases.