AIm: Hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage (HCH) is a potentially life-threatening cerebrovascular disease with high mortality. In case of a massive hematoma, surgical drainage is a crucial treatment. The aim of the present study was to assess the efficacy of the endoscopic-assisted keyhole technique in elderly patients with intracerebral hematoma who needed a flap craniotomy as traditional treatmen...

thoracic surgery with poor prognosis unless treated properly. It can cause sepsis and other complications which may increase morbidity and mortality. The treatment of choices in pleural empyema are thoracentesis, intercostal tube or pleural catheter drainage, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and open surgery (1, 2). Tube drainage often fails if the empyema is loculated with fibrinous adhe...

OBJECTIVES Hemodilution induced by cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) often prevents open heart operations without blood transfusion because of a large CPB-priming volume. A vacuum-assisted venous drainage system appears to overcome this problem and our previous experimental study demonstrated the beneficial effect of a vacuum-assisted CPB with a pressure relief valve. In this study, we clinically ap...

Drainage from mining sites rich in sulfur bearing rocks is known as acid mine drainage (AMD). Acid mine drainage water is a serious environmental pollutant that has its ill effects on plants, animals and microflora of a region. Mine water drainage mainly results due to anthropogenic activities like mining that leave the sulfur bearing rocks exposed. This drainage water poses as a potent soil, s...

This report presents a 20-week pregnant 38-year-old woman with right-sided pneumothorax due to pulmonary deciduosis. Initial pleural drainage was ineffective. Video-assisted thoracoscopy revealed areas of consolidation within the lung parenchyma. A wedge resection with partial pleurectomy was performed. Histopathological examination showed subpleural decidual implants. The patient made a full r...

We investigate the influence of fluid rheology on flow in a finite rock fracture with vertically varying aperture and subject to competing drainage mechanisms due permeable substrate draining edge. The is release volume fluid, either Newtonian, Ostwald–deWaele, or Herschel–Bulkley. Hele–Shaw analogy between lubrication seepage flows allows extending our results porous medium permeability porosi...