M. Lea Thomas
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Impact of the European Working Time Directive on the training of paediatric anaesthetists* Open
Summary The European Working Time Directive and the New Deal have decreased the number of hours worked by anaesthetic trainees. We implemented the Working Time Directive in May 2004 and evaluated the effect of its implementation on trainin…
The use of varicography to identify the sources of incompetence in recurrent varicose veins. Open
We have studied patients with recurrent varicose veins which were incompletely controlled by a thigh tourniquet. We used varicography, (a phlebogram via the varices), to detect sites of incompetence. Thirty patients (mean age 46 years) wer…
Is the postphlebitic leg always postphlebitic? Relation between phlebographic appearances of deep-vein thrombosis and late sequelae. Open
One hundred and thirty legs of 67 patients were examined 5-10 years after the patient had suffered a phlebographically proved deep-vein thrombosis. Forty-seven of the limbs were normal at the time of the phlebogram, 83 contained thrombus. …
Metrizamide in venography. Open
in psychopathology, which worsened after a three-day washout period and became similar to that seen before metoclopramide treatment.The patient was then treated with the classical neuroleptic haloperidol.At a dose of 45 mg/day the same ext…
Coronary artery ectasia--a variant of occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis. Open
In a study of 1000 consecutive coronary arteriograms, 12 patients (all men) had coronary artery ectasia. Ectasia was found most frequently in the circumflex or right coronary artery. Only 1 patient had ectasia in the left anterior descendi…
Comparison between Sequelae of Surgical and Medical Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism Open
Thirty-six patients have been studied clinically and phlebographically three years after a major deep vein thrombosis. Twenty were treated surgically and 16 medically. The incidence of post-thrombotic symptoms was similar in the two groups…
Intracranial tuberculosis resembling Hand-Schüller-Christian disease. Open
thromboplastin or other substances from the ioc sac into the maternal circulation, resulting in the connuous consmption of fibrinogen The increased incidce of oic fluid embolism with intrauterine death of the fetus may be due to the increa…
Post-thrombotic Inferior Vena Caval Obstruction: A Review of 24 Patients Open
An analysis of the clinical features of 24 patients with post-thrombotic obstruction of the inferior vena cava demonstrated by phlebography showed that the possible precipitating cause was usually trivial and the onset was often associated…
Kidney function after renal arterial embolism Open
Seven patients with atrial fibrillation had acute unilateral renal pain associated with suppression of function in the affected kidney. This was ascribed to renal embolism. Arteriography performed in four patients showed abnormalities in t…
Prevention of Recurrent Pulmonary Embolism Open
Fifty patients have been studied by bilateral phlebography following their first, or sometimes recurrent, pulmonary embolus. Nineteen were found to have fresh loose peripheral thrombus, and in eight of them the thrombus looked big enough t…
Streptokinase and Deep Vein Thrombosis Open
Five patients with deep vein thrombosis were given streptokinase. Five others with similar phlebograms were given anticoagulants, and the results assessed by examining changes in the iliac, femoral, and calf segments of the phlebograms whe…
Iliac vein compression.--Its relation to iliofemoral thrombosis and the post-thrombotic syndrome. Open
Summary The treatment of haemorrhoids by conservative methods has been examined. Injection therapy with the use of phenol in almond oil was effective in controlling bleeding, but with almond oil alone it was not. A comparison between the r…