ABSTRACT
A 59-year-old woman has presented symptoms of fatigue since January 1996. Atypical coarctation due to aortitis syndrome had been diagnosed 8 years earlier. Her upper-limb blood pressure was 200mmHg and antihypertensive drugs were administered. An aortogram showed severe stenoses of the aorta at the level of the diaphragm and renal artery. A computed tomogram showed extensive calcification of the aorta below the origin of the left subclavian artery. She underwent a bypass operation with a 16-mm-diameter prosthetic graft from the ascending aorta to the infrarenal abdominal aorta. She has progressed well after the bypass and her upper-limb blood pressure is almost normal.
ABSTRACT
This time the statistics for injuries and disorders due to sports in the five-year period up to 1985 were taken, evaluated and compared with those of the last five-year period. The following results were obtained :<BR>1. There were 1, 300 cases of injuries and disorders due to sports in the five-year period up to 1985, which was 4.4% of the total number of outpatients in the department of orthopaedics.<BR>2. Sex : There were more male patients, but the rate of female patients has been increasing lately.<BR>3. Age : Patients in their teens or twenties accounted for about 70%.<BR>4. Body Side : There was no significant difference between incidence of injury on the right side of body or the left, but cases of injuries on both sides have been increasing recently.<BR>5. Kind of Sport : The largest number of trauma were due to skiing, although the number of trauma resulting from playing tennis has been high in the past five-years of investigation.<BR>6. Time of Injury ; Most patients were injured during practice, followed by recreation and game.<BR>7. Position of Truma : Most cases were injuries to their knee joints from skiing.
ABSTRACT
This time the statistics for injuries and disorders due to sports in the five-year period up to 1985 were taken, evaluated and compared with those of the last five-year period. The following results were obtained :<BR>1. There were 1, 300 cases of injuries and disorders due to sports in the five-year period up to 1985, which was 4.4% of the total number of outpatients in the department of orthopaedics.<BR>2. Sex : There were more male patients, but the rate of female patients has been increasing lately.<BR>3. Age : Patients in their teens or twenties accounted for about 70%.<BR>4. Body Side : There was no significant difference between incidence of injury on the right side of body or the left, but cases of injuries on both sides have been increasing recently.<BR>5. Kind of Sport : The largest number of trauma were due to skiing, although the number of trauma resulting from playing tennis has been high in the past five-years of investigation.<BR>6. Time of Injury ; Most patients were injured during practice, followed by recreation and game.<BR>7. Position of Truma : Most cases were injuries to their knee joints from skiing.