Ascaris lumbricoides infection affects approximately 1.5 billion people globally. Children with environmental and socio-economic risk factors are more susceptible to infestation, with serious complications such as intestinal obstruction (IO), volvulus, intussusception, and intestinal necrosis.We present the case of a 3-year-old girl who arrived at emergency department with abdominal pain and di...

Gallstone ileus is an uncommon entity that was first described by Bartholin in 1654. Despite advances in perioperative care, morbidity and mortality remain high in patients with gallstone ileus because: 1) they are geriatric patients; 2) they often have multiple comorbidities; 3) presentation to the hospital is delayed; 4) many are volume depleted with electrolyte abnormalities; and 5) the diag...

We present a thirty five years old woman with a family history of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) (sister, brother and father) and a four-month history of progressive and constant right iliac fossa pain accompanied by weight loss of 5 kg. The patient does not refer nausea, vomiting or fever. The abdomen was soft, painless, without other signs of peritoneal irritation or palpable masses. In the res...

The aim of this study was to search for small bowel lesions by means of a perioperative endoscopy in 20 patients operated on for Crohn's disease. Seven women and 13 men (mean age 29 years) had a total retrograde exploration to the angle of Treitz during an ileocolectomy (16 of 20 patients) or a colonic or ileal resection (four of 20 patients). Endoscopic exploration was completed, through an en...

OBJECTIVE To report outcomes of laparoscopic management of patients with ovarian remnant (OR). DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Referral practice and tertiary medical center. PATIENT(S) Sixty-four patients with confirmed OR who underwent laparoscopic treatment between July 1989 and September 2003. INTERVENTION(S) Laparoscopic excision of OR. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) Technical...

A 7-year-old Thoroughbred gelding was admitted to Equine Hospital, Korea Racing Association for evaluation and treatment of colic. Based on the size and duration of the large colonic and cecal impaction, a routine ventral midline celiotomy and large colon enterotomy were performed to relieve the impaction. Six days following surgery the gelding exhibited signs of lethargy, fever, inappetence an...

OBJECTIVE We assessed safety and efficacy of an open laparoscopic entry technique. METHODS A retrospective review of all patients undergoing laparoscopy via open laparoscopic access over an 8-year period from January 1, 1998 to December 31, 2006 is presented. RESULTS During the study period, 2010 consecutive subjects underwent laparoscopy. Recorded intraoperative complications include enter...

Effects of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (2 micrograms.kg-1.20 min-1; LPS), given systemically (S) or via superior mesenteric artery (M), and consecutive dopamine infusion (16 micrograms.kg-1.20 min-1) on jejunal mucosal tissue O2 tension (PO2muc) and serosal tissue O2 tension (PO2ser; Clark-type surface electrodes) and jejunal mucosal microvascular hemoglobin O2 saturation (HbO2muc; tiss...

OBJECTIVE Various ventral and incisional hernia repair techniques exist and have largely replaced the open ones. The purpose of this study was to document the 2-port technique and demonstrate that it is feasible, efficient, and safe. To our knowledge, this is the largest report on this topic to date in the English-language literature. METHODS Forty patients with ventral hernias (VH) or incisi...