Postoperative morbidity and mortality after bleomycin treatment.

Preoperative anemia increases mortality and postoperative morbidity after cardiac surgery

BACKGROUND Anemia is an established adverse risk factor in cardiovascular disease. However, the effect of preoperative anemia is not well defined in heart surgery. This study evaluates the effect of preoperative anemia on early clinical outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. METHODS A retrospective, observational, cohort study of prospectively collected data was undertaken on 7,738 ...

Postoperative Morbidity and Mortality of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis at one Teaching Hospital in North-eastern Benin.

Background & Aim: Surgical management of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common practice. The aim of this study to was to report morbidity and mortality observed during surgical treatment of LSS and the outcome of these patients after management over an 8-year study period. Methods & Materials/Patients: It was a retrospective, descriptive and transversal study performed at Departmental Te...

Cardiac mortality and morbidity after breast cancer treatment.

BACKGROUND Breast conservation treatment for early-stage breast cancer has been demonstrated to be equivalent to mastectomy in a large number of randomized trials. A number of earlier studies of surgery with or without radiation did not show an improvement in overall survival despite large reductions in local recurrence rates. Numerous randomized trials have demonstrated that postmastectomy rad...

Morbidity and mortality after liver resection Running title: Morbidity and mortality after liver resection

The association between nitrous oxide and postoperative mortality and morbidity after noncardiac surgery.

BACKGROUND Nitrous oxide (N2O) has been widely used in clinical anesthesia for >150 years. However, use of N2O has decreased in recent years because of concern about the drug's metabolic side effects. But evidence that routine use of N2O causes clinically important toxicity remains elusive. We therefore evaluated the relationship between intraoperative N2O administration and 30-day mortality as...