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    Retrospective Study of Surgical Repair of Gunshot Injuries of Peripheral Nerves.
    Albanian Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery ; 2019
    In:  Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery Vol. 3, No. 2 ( 2019-07-20), p. 387-394
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    In: Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Albanian Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Vol. 3, No. 2 ( 2019-07-20), p. 387-394
    Abstract: Background: Shotgun injuries of the peripheral nerves are presented frequently during the last decades at the Service of Neurosurgery of UHC “Mother Theresa” in Tirana. In such cases the surgical repair of brachial plexus and peripheral nerves constitutes a challenge with relation to difficulties related with mechanism of injury, coexistence of other vascular damage, bone, soft tissue and visceral lesions. Materials and methods: A retrospective study of operated cases with shotgun injuries treated in our Department from 1997 to 2012 was conducted getting information from clinical charts, surgical registries, intraoperative photos and videos of the surgical repair of peripheral nerves. We performed a thorough analysis of the most influencing factors of surgical outcome such as: age, severity of injury, site of injury with relation to the innervated muscles, type of necessary nerve repair, presence of causalgia before operation, concomitant compromise of vascularization and/or locomotor apparatus. Follow-up of the patient was conducted through out-patient visits and phone interviews going back 10 years from surgical repair. Results: 68 cases operated for shotgun injury of brachial plexus or peripheral nerves were revised. There were different ages and both sexes involved. The type of nerve repair went from interfascicular neurolysis to direct end-to-end microsuture and nerve grafting. Timely repair of the nerve injury proved to be yielding better result than late repair in terms of pain relief and sensory motor improvement of the preoperative neurological deficit. The degree and the quality of improvement after surgery is related to the type of repair (neurolysis improves better and faster than grafting), the distance from site of injury to the effector muscle (the longer the distance more time it takes for the function to recover). The recovery of the brachial plexus was followed up for many years and further surgery proved to be necessary and of further improvement. Conclusions: From our long term experience dealing with surgical repair of shotgun injury of peripheral nerves we have learnt that early surgical repair is more efficacious in treating pain and gives better results in terms of motor and sensitive recovery than six months after injury as it was usually done. Long term follow-up is necessary to help with further surgery in case of distal decompressive surgery in anatomical tunnels.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2616-4922 , 2521-8778
    URL: Issue
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.32391/ajtes.v3i2
    DOI: 10.32391/ajtes.v3i2.48
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: Albanian Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery
    Publication Date: 2019
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    Epidemiological Study of 1368 Cases of Surgical Repair for Traumatic Peripheral Nerve Injury.
    Albanian Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery ; 2019
    In:  Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery Vol. 3, No. 1 ( 2019-01-20), p. 197-204
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    In: Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Albanian Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Vol. 3, No. 1 ( 2019-01-20), p. 197-204
    Abstract: Traumatic injury of the peripheral nerves should be treated in specialized centres. This study presents the epidemiological data of 1368 consecutive patients operated for peripheral nerve injuries beside the Service of neurosurgery, Department of Neurosciences, UHC "Mother Theresa", Tirana. In order to obtain the necessary data for this study we revised the clinical records, surgical registers and pre, intra and postoperative photo/video of the cases operated for peripheral nervous system injuries. A data recording program of the surgery cases was built ad hoc, categorizing the cases according to several variables. The data collected from the operated cases were manually inserted to be processed by the program. Results of informatics elaboration of the data were obtained, reviewed and categorized by: age, gender, type of trauma, localization of injury and type of nerve repair. Future studies to be conducted in this field will focus in determining the level of nerve injury, time from the injury to intervention, distance from the site of trauma to the effector organ. The data will build necessary information for data mining, which based on these important factors that influence the result of nerve repair, will be useful for the prediction of the result in new patients harbouring peripheral nerve injury before undergoing surgery.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2616-4922 , 2521-8778
    URL: Issue
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.32391/ajtes.v3i1
    DOI: 10.32391/ajtes.v3i1.23
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: Albanian Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery
    Publication Date: 2019
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