OBJECTIVES Ascending aortic dissection has a poor prognosis if it is not promptly corrected surgically. Even with surgical correction, postoperative management is feared because of its complicated course. Our aim was to describe the incidence of postoperative complications and identify the 1 and 6-month mortality rate of our ascending aortic dissection surgical cohort. Secondarily, a comparison...

OBJECTIVE To assess short and long term efficacy of coronary stent implantation for unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis. DESIGN Retrospective follow up study. SETTING Tertiary referral centre for interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery. PATIENTS Eighteen consecutive patients (12 men; age 70.8 years) between May 1993 and July 1996. Ten patients presented with stable angina...

Aims To compare rates of serious adverse events in patients undergoing revision knee arthroplasty with consideration the indication for (urgent versus elective indications), and these primary re-revision arthroplasty. Methods Patients were identified national Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) between 1 April 1997 to 31 March 2017. Subsequent procedures same identified. The outcome was 90-day mo...

25 as reported by Williamson.2 Further evidence that these patients form a high risk group for torsion is provided by other authors who have noted a history of recurrent testicular pain before torsion in 29-50% of their patients.34 Recognition of this diagnosis, its relation to acute torsion and urgent elective orchidopexy may improve testicular salvage rates. The occurrence of one case of tors...

BACKGROUND Very early (day 4) hospital discharge has recently been proposed for selected patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI). The purpose of this study was to determine the most useful factors for identifying acute MI patients treated with aggressive interventional therapy who could be safely discharged on day 4. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 708 patients enrolled in the Thromboly...

Objective: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), caused by a novel coronavirus, has become worldwide pandemic. In order to control the global spread of this contagious disease, elective surgeries including cardiac and vascular procedures were postponed. article we present our experience during initial phase pandemic in view safety protocols. Material Methods: The study included all elective, urg...

OBJECTIVE The primary goal of the present study was to demonstrate the existence of a possible circadian variation in urgent operative deliveries. METHODS All urgent caesarean sections between 1 January 2014 and 1 January 2015 with known exact onset times of operation were included in this retrospective study. Cases that were previously scheduled for elective caesarean section were excluded. ...