OBJECTIVE To evaluate post-operative complications in living lobar lung transplant donors. METHODS Between September of 1999 and May of 2005, lobectomies were performed in 32 healthy lung transplant donors for 16 recipients. The medical charts of these donors were retrospectively analyzed in order to determine the incidence of postoperative complications and alterations in pulmonary function ...

BACKGROUND Post-operative endophthalmitis is a serious complication of intraocular surgery which may present acutely or chronically. Chronic post-operative endophthalmitis is characterized by decreased visual acuity, mild pain, and low-grade uveitis several weeks or months after intraocular surgery which may be responsive to corticosteroids, but recur upon tapering. Low virulence organisms such...

Thyroglossal sinus are a frequent clinical entity in the pediatric population, mostly present upper midline of neck. It is most common complication following thyroglossal duct cysts and well known for recurrence, if inadequately excised or infected. A careful consideration magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pre-operatively helps improve outcomes reduces complications. We case 12-year-old boy oper...

Epidural catheterization is routinely used by anaesthesiologists to provide labour and post-operative analgesia. In most cases, catheter placement is without serious side effects and uneventful. However, epidural abscess is a rare complication that may result in severe morbidity. We present a case of epidural abscess after labour epidural catheter placement in a healthy 36-year-old female who p...

Aim: To compare both techniques for operative & postop complications, operative time & hospital stay. Methods: This prospective study was conducted from February 2010 to June 2012. It included patients having reducible inguinal hernia, and fit for general anesthesia, operated by either TAPP or TEP technique. Type of the technique was decided by the surgeon, with patients consent. All intra oper...

background: by presenting this case we aimed to describe an uncommon complication of generalized peritonitis following spontaneous pyometra perforation in untreated cervical carcinoma. case presentation: this report describes a 60-year-old postmenopausal woman presenting with clinical features mimicking intestinal perforation who was later diagnosed as cervical carcinoma with pyometra perforati...

In congenital cardiac surgery, intracardiac repair procedures like ventricular septal defect (VSD), atrioventricular and tetralogy of fallot (TOF) are associated with conduction system injury. Fewer cases reported describing life threatening complication late post-operative complete heart block. We reporting 2 patients who presented block after managed by permanent pacemaker placement in AFIC C...

Abstract Introduction Recent studies have suggested that there should be diagnostic confirmation of appendicitis prior to surgical resection reduce the rate negative (normal) appendicectomy. There are few long-term analyses morbidity after Method All appendicectomy specimens removed for suspected from June 2010 August 2015 at a single-centre unit were identified. Patients with histologically 'n...

PURPOSE A retrospective study of the outcome of congenital and developmental cataract surgery was conducted in a public child eye health tertiary facility in children <16 years of age in Southern Nigeria, as part of an evaluation. MATERIALS AND METHOD Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery with or without anterior vitrectomy was performed. The outcome measures were visual acuity (VA) and chan...