BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Bariatric surgery has become a common procedure and several complications have been reported. The objective of this report is to present a case of gluteal compartment syndrome that evolved to acute renal failure after bariatric surgery and to discuss the diagnosis, and the prophylactic and therapeutic measures. CASE REPORT A 42 years old male patient, white, with a b...

BACKGROUND For reconstructing moderate-to-high projection breasts in nulliparous patients with insufficient abdominal tissue or prior abdominal surgeries, a unilateral inferior gluteal artery perforator (IGAP) flap is an alternative procedure. In patients with slim hips, however, unilateral gluteal tissue is insufficient and inferior gluteal crease displacement may develop postoperatively. Dono...

INTRODUCTION Clinically, there has been an interest in the relationship between hip and spine function since the first reporting of hip-spine syndrome [1]. This work discussed the effects of a pathological hip joint on spine function. Others [2,3] have suggested an association between low back pain (LBP) and gluteal muscle inhibition as part of the functional presentation in some patients with ...

OBJECTIVE The study goal was to determine the effect of weight loss (WL) alone and with aerobic exercise (WL + AEX) on serum amyloid A (SAA) levels and adipose SAA secretion from gluteal and abdominal depots. METHODS Ninety-six overweight or obese postmenopausal women undertook a 6-month WL alone (n = 47) or with AEX training (n = 49) (6 months WL and WL + AEX are considered WL when groups we...

1 Koichi Tomita, MD, PhD Megumi Yokoi-Fukai, MD Takayoshi Ishihara, MD Kosuke Morita, MD Ko Hosokawa, MD, PhD Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Graduate School of Medicine Osaka University Osaka, Japan Sir: R of large defects in the gluteal region remains challenging. Although regional flaps (eg, anterolateral thigh flap) or myocutaneous flaps (eg, tensor fasciae latae) are optio...

BACKGROUND Accidental intraneural injection induced nerve injury is an iatrogenic tragedy and intramuscular injection (IM) is the most common injury mechanism affecting the sciatic nerve. The most frequent presentation of sciatic nerve injury includes radicular pain and paresthesia with almost immediate onset of variable motor and sensory deficit. OBJECTIVES Intraneural injection is a common ...

Gluteal hernias are extremely uncommon and occur as a result of deficiency or defect in the gluteal musculature. Our case reports one such incidence in a one year old girl with review of available literature. The clinical presentation and imaging findings are discussed comprehensively. We thus lay emphasis on the importance of real-time ultrasonography as the method of choice to identify hernia...

Gluteal compartment syndrome is a serious but rare condition that has recently been increasingly reported in literature. This report presents two cases that followed neurological and vascular injuries (first case: an injury of the superior gluteal artery; second case: neurological injury bilaterally). A high index of suspicion and attention is needed to early diagnose this condition due to the ...

a 21 years old woman presented with a history of sle and skin lesions on the arms, trunk, and abdomen. the left gluteal region was ulcerated and painful and occasionally extruded a chalky white material. the patient referred from rheumatology department for osteomyelitis assessment. on physical examination the patient had hard, nontender lesions on the proximal arms, lower abdomen and lower bac...

OBJECTIVES To use a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial to establish the effect on straight leg raise, hip internal rotation, and muscle pain of dry needling treatment to the gluteal muscles in athletes with posterior thigh pain referred from gluteal trigger points. METHODS A randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial of 59 male runners was performed during the 2002 Aus...