obscure gastrointestinal (gi) bleeding is defined when the source of gi bleeding could not be determined by upper endoscopy, colonoscopy or barium small bowel transit. in this report, a 41 year-old man presented with a history of over ten recurrent episodes of melena since four years prior to admission. the source of bleeding was not detected by multiple upper and lower gi endoscopies. during t...

splenic abscess is not a common condition and actinomyces as a cause is very rarely reported. we report a case of actinomycosis of spleen in a 12 year-old boy, with a few days history of abdominal pain and fever. past medical history was not significant. due to sever abdominal pain and tenderness condition laparatomy was done that a small perforated area was seen on hilum of spleen, so splenect...

Intestinal obstruction may be duo to various mechanical or functional reasons. Worms, especially Ascaris worms are one of the mechanical reasons of intestinal obstruction. Obstruction due to Taenia saginata is a rare phenomenon. Here we report a case of intestinal obstruction due to Taenia saginata infection in a 30 year-old male patient undergoing laparatomy with the diagnosis of intestinal ob...

BACKGROUND The increases of free radicals have been proposed to be involved in the pathogenesis of sepsis, which leads to multiple-organ dysfunction syndromes. The uses of antioxidants as a complementary tool in the medical care of oxidative stress-related diseases have attracted attention of researchers. Resveratrol (RV) has suggested being antioxidant, anti-proliferative, and anti-inflammator...

During the last 12 years (Jan.1978 to Dec 1989) at the surgical department of our Institution 2220 patients were operated for gallsto-. ne desease of the biliary system.Among then 224 patients (10.09%) were operated and had gallstone acute pancreatitis (AP).Cholelithiasis and AP were documented in all patients by operation,clinical, x-rays and biochemical findings.Of the 224 patients in 47 the ...

results seventy-five patients completed the study. compared to saline, patients who received 1 and 5 mg/kg of aminophylline demonstrated decreased extubation times (mean ± sd) (12.26 ± 7.33 vs. 11.15 ± 8.62 and 10.4 ± 4.78 min, respectively, p = 0.001) with higher bis values (p = 0.001). however, the recovery and discharge times from the pacu were no different between the aminophylline and sali...

Background: Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of most common infections in the hospital and complications patients admitted to surgical ward or outpatient surgery, which increases duration treatment, delays wound healing, use antibiotics, causes unnecessary pain severe cases death imposes a lot costs on health care system. The aim this study was determine demographic characteristics comorbid...

Pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) as a treatment of choice for periampullary tumors is associated with significant risk morbidity and mortality even in developed HPB center. Resectable cases are found only 10% to 20% cases. Indonesia due its geographical characteristics make it arduous treat patients tertiary referral center only. We presenting our experience PD from 1993-2019. A retrospective revie...