1Regional Trauma Services and Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2Letterkenny University Hospital, Letterkenny, Donegal Ireland 3Regional Trauma Services, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 4Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma — University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil 5Department of Surgery, Foothills Med...

Background Initial excess of creatinine kinase (CK) has been shown to correlate with extent of muscle damage in electrical burns.[1] High voltage burns leading to extensive muscle damage, compartment syndrome and rhabodmyolysis is clinically apparent at an early stage. However, the frequency of these injuries is rare. Low voltage (<1000V) injuries from domestic appliances are far more common wi...

Iatrogenic carotid artery injury may result from various medical procedures. We describe a nearly devastating complication such as the occurrence of cervical compartment syndrome following the attempt of a transjugular central venous catheterization. A vascular surgical approach was conducted to treat this rare clinical finding that has not been described in the literature until recently.

Chronic exertional anterior compartment syndrome is debilitating disease of the lower limb. Limited symptomology characterises the clinical picture at rest, pain during sporting activities, tumefaction, and contractures of the limb as well impotency by the pain of the entire forefoot and hypoesthesia. Usually, the most affected patients are athletes. We analyse a case of chronic post-traumatic ...

BACKGROUND There is a scarcity of studies concerning the treatment of foot and talocrural deformities secondary to a compartment syndrome or ischaemia. MATERIAL AND METHODS Five patients (4 males and 1 female) were treated by talocrural arthrodesis (1 foot) and triple tarsal arthrodesis (4 feet) due to equinovarus foot deformity secondary to compartment syndrome or ischaemia. The age at surge...

BACKGROUND Patients with compartment syndromes have elevated intramuscular pressure (IMP) due to increased volume in the affected muscle. However, the accuracy of IMP as a parameter in diagnosing chronic compartment syndrome has been questioned. It has been observed that arterial pulsations create oscillations in the IMP in patients with abnormally elevated IMP. The amplitude of the IMP oscilla...

abdominal compartment syndrome is a dangerous clinical situation, usually following abdominal injuries &operations.; it is seldom observed in patients with gynecologic and obstetric problems. abdominal compartment syndrome may be consequence ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. a 28-year-old woman presented as a sever ovarian hyperstimulation.the increased iap indicated that ohss may be considere...

premenstrual syndromes (pms) are a group of menstrually related, chronic and cyclical disorders characterized by emotional, behavioral, and physical symptoms in the second half (luteal phase) of the menstrual cycle. several line of evidence point to a significant role of the serotonergic system in the course of the luteal phase in women with pms/ premenstrual dysphoric disorder. it has been rep...