Presse Med
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Emergency surgery for rupture or fissuration of sub-renal abdominal aortic aneurysms can be simplified by the use of a ringed tubular graft prosthesis of woven Dacron, which is fixed intraluminally in the aneurysmatic sac.
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Systematic assays of glycosylated haemoglobin were performed to verify that pregnant women with glycosuria and normal fasting blood glucose and glucose tolerance tests had no disturbances in glycoregulation. Glycosylated haemoglobin levels were measured in 25 glycosuric women on the second (n = 11) or third (n = 14) trimester of pregnancy and compared with those of 81 non-glycosuric women of similar weight and gestational age. ⋯ They were also significantly higher in obese glycosuric women than in controls of the same weight (6.71% versus 5.3%; p less than 0.001) and exceeded normal limits. These results should encourage better detection (by glucose tolerance test) and better supervision of women with "renal" diabetes.
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A 75 year old man developed chronic flexor tenosynovitis in a finger, caused by Mycobacterium terrae. He had a history of diabetes mellitus and arteritis, but not of local trauma. ⋯ This is the fourth case reported in which M. terrae was involved, and it supports the responsibility of this organism as a human pathogen. Attention is drawn to the hazards of corticosteroid injections into tendon sheaths.