Peritoneo-venous shunting for ascites

HH LeVeen, G Christoudias, M IP, R Luft, G Falk… - Annals of …, 1974 - journals.lww.com
LeVeen, and I will show it to you now. (Slide) This is the whole apparatus. This is a chamber
LeVeen has reported and our experience is that six of our eight patients had ascites on the …

Chemical acidification of wounds. An adjuvant to healing and the unfavorable action of alkalinity and ammonia.

HH Leveen, G Falk, B Borek, C Diaz, Y Lynfield… - Annals of …, 1973 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
FAILURE OR DELAY in wound healing occurs rather commonly in contaminated wounds
even in the absence of invasive pathogens. Some granulating wounds not only fail to heal, but …

Tumor eradication by radiofrequency therapy: response in 21 patients

HH LeVeen, S Wapnick, V Piccone, G Falk, N Ahmed - Jama, 1976 - jamanetwork.com
Tumor blood flow, measured by an isotope dilution technique, is only 2% to 15% that of the
surrounding tissue. This sluggish circulation difdifferententiatesm normal tissue and forms the …

Further experience with peritoneo-venous shunt for ascites

HH LEVEEN, S WAPNICK, S GROSBERG… - Annals of …, 1976 - journals.lww.com
… Sixty-one patients with ascites were treated with a LeVeen continuous peritonealjugular
shuntat the Brooklyn VA Hospital between 1973 and March 1976. The age, cause of ascites, …

Radiofrequency-induced hyperthermia: computer simulation of specific absorption rate distributions using realistic anatomical models

DW Armitage, HH LeVeen… - Physics in Medicine & …, 1983 - iopscience.iop.org
A description is given of a computer simulation technique which predicts the specific
absorption rate (SAR) distribution within the human body resulting from the application of …

Tissue reaction to plastics used in surgery with special reference to Teflon

HH LeVeen, JR Barberio - Annals of surgery, 1949 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
MATERIALS AND METHODS Implantations of the plastic materials were made in 2I dogs.
The materials were implanted in various sites for purposes of comparison. The extent of …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of prophylactic antibiotics on colonic healing

HH LeVeen, S Wapnick, G Falk, O Olivas… - The American Journal …, 1976 - academia.edu
LeVeen et al … Douglass HO Jr, LeVeen HH: Tumor recurrence in colon anastomoses:
prevention by coagulation and fixation with formalin. Ann Surg 173: 201, 1971. 17. …

A histopathologic study on the effects of radiofrequency thermotherapy on malignant tumors of the lung

S Sugaar, HH Leveen - Cancer, 1979 - Wiley Online Library
Malignant cells are thermosensitive but this does not fully explain the widespread pathologic
changes observed in solid cancers following local therapy with radiofrequency heating. The …

Ascites: its correction by peritoneovenous shunting

HH LeVeen, S Wapnick, C Diaz, S Grosberg… - Current Problems in …, 1979 - Elsevier
Patients with refractory ascites and HRS should be considered to present an urgent indication
for peritoneovenous shunting. The shunt offers a method of continuous reinfusion of …

Management of ascites with hydrothorax

HH LeVeen, VA Piccone, RB Hutto - The American journal of surgery, 1984 - Elsevier
… A report of two patients treated with insertion of a LeVeen peritoneovenous shunt did not …
Two patients reported in the literature had insertion of a LeVeen shunt only with disappearance …