In a retrospective study of 15 patients who were treated with collapse therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis on an average 30 years previously, we found 16 instances of exudation in the residual pocket: four were sterile and without fistula, ten had bronchial fistulae, one had an esophageal fistula, and one was a tuberculous empyema without fistula. Among the 11 exudations with bronchial or esopha...

BACKGROUND Aneurysm shrinkage has been proposed as a marker of successful endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). Patients with early postoperative shrinkage may experience fewer subsequent complications, and consequently require less intensive surveillance. METHODS Patients undergoing EVAR from 2000 to 2011 at three vascular centres (in 2 countries), who had two imaging examinations (postoperat...

A MONG patients wlho from infancy have had severe anemia, refractory to therapy and usually reqtiiring transfuisions, xve have observed the development of one or 1)0th of txxo cardiac complicationis uinuisuial for anicmia alone." One, acute pericarditis, appeared benign but often recutrred, xxhereas the seconid, congestive lheart failuire and arrhythmias, led to death xithin a few montlhs to a ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the rate of late complications following first implantation or elective unit replacement of a permanent pacemaker system. DESIGN Analysis of pacemaker data and complications prospectively acquired on a computerised database. Complications were studied over an 11 year period from January 1984 to December 1994. SETTING Tertiary referral cardiothoracic centre. PATIENTS...

The problem of the patient who has had one operation for coarctation of the aorta and who then requires another because of a late complication at or near the coarctation site is a demanding one. The safety of aortic cross-clamping at the second operation depends on the adequacy or otherwise of the collateral circulation, and this in turn depends on the presence or absence of residual or recurre...

OBJECTIVES To report the late coronary complications and their treatment after arterial switch operation (ASO). BACKGROUND Asymptomatic patients after ASO may have coronary ostial stenosis or obstruction. METHODS Since 1980, 279 patients were operated with ASO. At the time of preparing this article, selective follow-up coronary angiograms were done on 81 patients. RESULTS Coronary stenosi...

INTRODUCTION Survival of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients has significantly improved in recent decades. The current first-line therapy is doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, dacarbazine (ABVD) ± irradiation and may cause pulmonary toxicity. Strategies to reduce late toxicity as well as increase survival rate are of interest. PATIENTS AND METHODS Pulmonary function of previously treated HL pati...

* The graft blocks (ischaemia) after the patient has been discharged from hospital, and so are presented * Late disruption around the anastomosis firstly to the general practitioner. (true and false aneurysms) Saphenous nerve damage is relatively common and may result in * The graft sends off showers of thrombi paraesthesia or numbness on the lower medial thigh. Femoral nerve damage (emboli) is...

OBJECTIVE To assess the frequency of complications in image-guided percutaneous nephrostomy and to identify common sources of error. METHODS The study was carried out at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, between November 2006 and May 2007. Patients of all age groups between 1 and 80 years were included using nonprobability convenience sampling technique. Those suffe...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to estimate acute and late complications of radiation therapy in primary invasive vaginal carcinoma (PIVC) patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS The analysis was performed for the group of 152 PIVC patients given radical radiotherapy in the Krakow Branch of Centre of Oncology during the 1967-2005 period. Twenty five (16.5%) patients in I stage with primary tumour ...