Radiation injury is a potentially serious complication to fluoroscopically-guided complex interventions

Radiation injury is a potentially serious complication to fluoroscopically-guided complex interventions

Radiation-induced injury to skin is an infrequent but potentially serious complication to complex fluoroscopically-guided interventional procedures. Due to a lack of experience with such injuries, the medical community has found fluoroscopically-induced injuries difficult to diagnose. Injuries have occurred globally in many countries. Serious injuries most frequently occur on the back but have ...

Perioral burns after adenotonsillectomy: a potentially serious complication.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate an institutional experience with perioral burns after adenotonsillectomy and to survey the national experience of other pediatric otolaryngologists regarding this complication. DESIGN A retrospective review of adenotonsillectomy cases from January 1, 1997, to December 31, 2005, was performed to determine the incidence, etiology, severity, and treatment of perioral burns...

Asthma is a Serious Danger

  میزان مرگ و میر آسم طی دهه گذشته بطور چشمگیری تغییر کرده است. با مبتلا کردن ۱۵ میلیون آمریکایی میزان مرگ و میر در سال ۱۹۷۸، به رقم ۱۸۷۲ نفر و ۹ سال بعد، به بیش از ۴۰۰۰ نفر رسید. علت چنین افزایش چشمگیری روشن نیست. علل احتمالی عبارتند از کاهش ظرفیت تنفس، استفاده بیش از حد از داروهای استثنائی و استنباط غلط بیماران و نیز مراکز درمانی نسبت به شدت بیماری است. بررسی دقیق، معالجات مناسب و آموزش به ب...

Skin injuries from fluoroscopically guided procedures: part 1, characteristics of radiation injury.

Portography: a potentially fatal complication during endoscopic ultrasound-guided choledochoduodenostomy.

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided choledochoduodenostomy (EUS-CDS) is a safe alternative to transhepatic cholangiography when endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has failed or in patients with altered anatomy [1]. There are however several adverse events that can be life-threatening in some circumstances [1, 2]. A 66-year-old woman presented with obstructive jaundice secondar...