Historically, ureteral complications during surgery have been occurring since the earliest performances of major abdominal or pelvic surgery. In early 1960s, few diagnostic techniques were available to diagnose injury and determine subsequent timely treatment required. Illustrations from two different time periods possible operative injury, ligation, transection following complicated surgical p...

grave’s disease is a clinical syndrome consisting of hypermetabolism, diffuse thyroid enlargement and exophthalmos. which has ocular complications. due to the high incidence of these complications and the risk of blindness special attention is needed. many therapeutic methods including medical surgical and radiotherapy for ocular complications are suggested. in cases of medical therapy failure,...

The surgical treatment of all types of scoliosis pursues correction of the deformity, get a solid spinal fusion and balance the trunk in the sagittal and coronal plane. For this it is necessary to perform technically demanding surgery, long lasting, with great exposure of the surgical field, high blood loss and ultimately extremely aggressive. No doubt we can say that scoliosis surgery is one o...

AUGUST 2007 I CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGERY TODAY I 29 RICHARD E . BR AUNSTEIN , MD This patient has a presentation consistent with postoperative P. acnes endophthalmitis. Caused by P. acnes, a gram-positive anaerobic bacillus, this condition presents as a white intracapsular plaque in the setting of decreased vision, conjunctival injection, intraocular inflammation with or without hypopyon, an...

BACKGROUND Intraoperative lidocaine is widely used in controlling discomfort during cataract surgery. However, recent studies have confirmed the toxic effect of lidocaine on ganglion cells. Ropivacaine is an anesthetic recently introduced in clinical practice that couples a long anesthetic effect with a mild vasoconstrictive action. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was an in vitro evaluation o...

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