Invasive Candida Infection after Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery for Gastric Cancer

Invasive Candida Infection after Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery for Gastric Cancer

Upper gastrointestinal tract (GIT) surgical procedures are more likely to cause nosocomial Candida peritonitis than lower GIT procedures and they thus constitute an independent risk factor for mortality. Because of the severity of postsurgical fungal infections complications, intensivists and surgeons need to be extremely aware of their clinical importance in critically ill postsurgical intensi...

Gastric gastric cancer is the second most common cancer of the gastrointestinal tract, after colorectal cancer

Gastric gastric cancer is the second most common cancer of the gastrointestinal tract, after colorectal cancer (IARC, Globocan 2012). In many countries, especially in developing countries, diagnoses are still made in the advanced stages. Symptoms of gastric cancer that include dyspepsia, nausea and discomfort are not-specific and resemble common gastrointestinal conditions such as peptic ulcer ...

Laparoscopic endoscopic cooperative surgery (LECS) for the upper gastrointestinal tract.

We developed the laparoscopic and endoscopic cooperative surgery (LECS) technique, which combines endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and laparoscopic gastric resection to resect gastric submucosal tumors (SMTs). Many researchers have reported LECS to be a feasible technique for gastric submucosal tumor resection regardless of tumor location, including the esophagogastric junction (EGJ). Rec...

Surgery for caustic injuries of the upper gastrointestinal tract.

BACKGROUND Surgery is the criterion standard for the treatment of severe burns and of late sequels after ingestion of corrosive agents, but long-term outcome is unknown. METHODS Patients who underwent surgery between 1987 and 2006, for the treatment of severe caustic burns (group I, n = 268) or of late sequels (group II, n = 79) were included in the study. Survival and functional outcomes wer...

Cancer of the upper gastrointestinal tract.