Hepatectomy: Indications and Results

Laparoscopic hepatectomy: indications and results from 18 resectable cases.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the early and late results from laparoscopic hepatectomy procedures at a tertiary hospital in Brasília (DF), Brazil. METHODS The authors report on a series of 18 patients (11 women) who underwent laparoscopic hepatectomy performed by a single surgical team at Santa Lúcia Hospital, in Brasília, between June 2007 and December 2010. Age ranged from 21 to 71 years (median = ...

Haemodialysis; indications and results.

Indications, Results and Mortality of Pulmonary Artery Banding Procedure: a Brief Review and Five- year Experiences

Background Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) is a technique of palliative surgical therapy used by congenital heart surgeons as a staged approach to operative correction of congenital heart defects. Materials and Methods We report 5- year experiences from January 2011 to January 2016 of Imam Reza Hospital center (a tertiary referral hospital in Mashhad city, North East of Iran) that consist of 50 ...

Hepatectomy: a Critical Analysis on Expansion of the Indications

BACKGROUND Hepatic resection has evolved to become safer, thereby making it possible to expand the indications. Aim : To assess the results from a group of patients presenting these expanded indications. METHOD Were prospectively studied all the hepatectomy procedures performed for hepatic tumor resection. Patients with benign and malignant primary and secondary tumors were included. Were inc...

Surgery first – indications, protocols, results

The multi-step treatment of severe dentofacial deformities starts after the termination of skeletal bone growth. In cases of additional transversal discrepancies the SARPE procedure has to be executed at first, followed by the orthodontic alignment of the dental arches. Then the at least three step treatment starts: it consists of the preand postoperative orthodontic treatment and the treatment...