Background The spread of epidural analgesia is facilitated by pregnancy. Changes in the epidural structure during pregnancy may affect the spread of analgesia in pregnant women. To investigate the changes in the epidural space produced by pregnancy, the authors performed epiduroscopy in pregnant women. Methods: Using a flexible fiberscope, the authors evaluated the epidural space in 73 women un...

OBJECTIVE To study ultra-early pathophysiological changes of rabbit acute lung injury (ALI) caused by paraquat (PQ) and discuss the ultra-early protective effect of ulinastatin on rabbit ALI due to PQ. METHODS 30 New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into a control group, a paraquat group and an ulinastatin intervention group with 10 rabbits in each group. For paraquat group and int...

results the search criteria yielded 16 manuscripts on percutaneous adhesiolysis assessing post-surgery syndrome. of these, only 4 randomized trials met inclusion criteria for methodological quality assessment, 3 of them were of high quality; and the fourth manuscript was of low quality. based on these 3 randomized controlled trials, 2 of them with one-day procedure and one with a 3-day procedur...

introduction spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (sseh) is an uncommon but potentially fatal condition. the increased bleeding tendency associated with anticoagulant medications has been proven to increase the risk of sseh. the symptoms of sseh usually begin with sudden severe neck or back pain and are followed by neurological deficits. however, some cases present with only axial pain or with ...

background: the aim of this study is comparing acth changes in epidural and intravenous analgesia technique after lower limb orthopedic surgery.methods: in a randomized clinical trial in hazrat rasool  akram hospital during 1387-88 , 60 patients candidate for surgery on the lower extremities were randomly allocated to receive either postoperative analgesia  with epidural analgesia (pcea) or iv ...

OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to analyze the effectiveness of epidural anesthesia in patients who underwent open retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP) at our institution over the past decade, and to examine subsequent oncologic outcomes, comparing those receiving with those not receiving epidural anesthesia. METHODS A comprehensive database of all patients undergoing RRP from November 1996 ...

BACKGROUND Among the many diagnostic and therapeutic interventions available for the management of chronic pain, epidural steroid injections are one of the most commonly used modalities. The explosive growth of this technique is relevant in light of the high cost of health care in the United States and abroad, the previous literature assessing the effectiveness of epidural injections has been s...

Congenital lumbar spinal stenosis is an uncommon condition that is often asymptomatic in young adults. Herein, we document the first reported occurrence of acute radicular back pain and associated congenital lumbar spinal stenosis in a healthy 24-year-old woman undergoing an epidural blood patch for treatment of a post-dural puncture headache related to an accidental dural puncture sustained du...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The development of a delayed epidural hematoma as a result of decompressive craniectomy represents an urgent and potentially lethal complication in traumatic brain injury. The goal of this study was to determine the incidence of delayed epidural hematoma and whether patterns of skull fractures on the preoperative CT scan could predict risk of a delayed epidural hematoma. ...