The acute surgical abdomen following Kyphoscoliosis corrective surgery

Acute Surgical Abdomen

Background. Pulmonary embolism is a common and potentially lethal condition. Most patients who die from massive pulmonary embolism do so within the first few hours of the event. The clinical manifestations of pulmonary embolism are nonspecific, which makes the diagnosis difficult. Case Report. We present a case of massive pulmonary embolism presenting as an acute surgical abdomen that underwent...

Surgical aspects of the acute abdomen.

Non-surgical acute abdomen: intestinal tuberculosis.

This was a 21-year-old woman with nonspecific findings in her clinical history, who was operated on for abdominal pain with generalized peritonism, high fever, and severe leukocytosis. No alterations were seen in her thorax. The following was found during the procedure: turbid ascites and generalized peritoneal seeding, particularly in the terminal ileum. A histological examination of biopsy sa...

Respiratory mechanics in anesthetized young patients with kyphoscoliosis. Immediate and delayed effects of corrective spinal surgery.

To our knowledge, the effects of corrective spinal surgery on total respiratory mechanics and its components in anesthetized patients with kyphoscoliosis have not been previously reported in detail. We studied 13 patients with kyposcoliosis; their mean (+/- SD) age was 24.7 +/- 2.1 years; eight underwent anterior and posterior spinal fusions (AF and PF, respectively) two weeks apart (group A), ...

Peritoneal lavage in the diagnosis of acute surgical abdomen following thermal injury.

Intraperitoneal sepsis is difficult to diagnose in thermally injured patients. We reviewed the use of diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) in burn patients suspected of having intraperitoneal infection. Seventeen patients were identified in whom celiotomy, autopsy, or complete recovery could be used to validate the lavage results. A lavage was considered positive if there were greater than 500 wh...