Callosotomy: should it be indicated earlier?

Pharmacological Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Meningioma Patients: Should it be Earlier than in Clinical Practice?

contraindicated in neurosurgery. It is not clear why Celtikci et al. did not prefer IPC within the first 48 hours of operation instead of compression stockings. Several studies have shown that the combination of LMWH and compression stockings is more efficacious than compression stockings alone (5). In Celtikci et al.’s study, they seem to have used only compression stockings during the first 4...

How high should it be?

Non-AIDS-defining cancers: should antiretroviral therapy be initiated earlier?

Non-AIDS-defining cancers have recently gained more attention, and it appears that several of these cancers may be more common the the HAART era. By most accounts in the literature, the overall risk of non-AIDS-defining cancer in HIV-infected persons is 2 to 3 times that in the general population. In this article, we review the literature on 5 of the most common non-AIDS-defining cancers (Hodgk...

Blunt renal artery trauma: how should it be treated, or rather, should it be treated?

Femoral pseudoaneurysm: How should it be treated?

We read with interest the article by Duszańska et al. [1] entitled ‘Predictors of successful iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm compression dressing repair’ recently published in the journal. The authors suggested that compression dressing repair (CPR) might serve as an alternative method of femoral pseudoaneurysm (FPA) management in patients with low forward and reverse velocities of the flow in pseudo...