STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study. PURPOSE To investigate the surgical outcome for hemodialysis-related upper cervical lesions. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Surgical outcome of lower cervical lesions in patients undergoing hemodialysis has been reported. However, surgical outcome for upper cervical lesions in hemodialysis patients is unclear. METHODS Upper cervical lesions in nine patients und...

postoperative low cardiac output states are a major cause of postoperative mortality in infants and children following corrective cardiac surgery or congenital heart defects. whole body hypothermia has been used since 2001 in the management of these low output states when they are refractory to conventional modes of therapy. from december 2001 to april 2006, 25 cases were included in this study...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether splenectomy as a part of devascularization procedures is necessary. DESIGN Prospective, controlled, randomized trial. SETTING University hospital, referral center. PATIENTS A total of 55 patients (Child-Pugh class A and B) with a history of bleeding portal hypertension were treated by means of a modified Sugiura-Futagawa procedure. Twenty-three patients un...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether patients with severe radiographic osteoarthritis (OA) have a different outcome at one year after total hip replacement than patients with moderate radiographic OA. To investigate sex related differences in preoperative radiographic and self reported status and in postoperative outcome. METHODS 184 patients (96 women) with a mean age at surgery of 71.4 years (5...

carpal injuries are uncommon and are mainly seen in the younger age group. the incidence is unclear as many of the cases go undiagnosed. a 22-year-old male patient coming to the hospital after road traffic accident with head, face and left wrist injury. after immediate primary management the patient was taken up for a definitive procedure 4 days after the injury. scaphoid fracture was fixed wit...

We conducted this study to assess the value of presence of hernia sac in prediction of postoperative outcome in congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). Data were obtained form medical records of 70 children operated for CDH between 2002-12. Postoperative neonatal death occurred in 1/10 (10%) of infants with a hernia sac and 26/60 (43.3%) in cases without a hernia sac, respectively (P =0.04). Per...

purpose : to evaluate the outcome of iris-claw phakic intraocular lens (piol) implantation for high myopia in a subspecialty training setting methods : iris-claw phakic artisan (ophtec b.v., groningen , the netherlands) intraocular lens implanted patients were invited for an evaluation visit: 83 eyes had been operated on by a group of 10 cornea fellows under the supervision of nine anterior seg...

BACKGROUND Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is used as a preoperative risk-stratification tool for patients undergoing non-cardiopulmonary intra-abdominal surgery. Previous studies indicate that CPET may be beneficial, but research is needed to quantify CPET values protective against poor postoperative outcome [mortality, morbidity, and length of stay (LOS)]. METHODS This systematic re...