Tubal disease accounts for 25-35% of infertility in woman and salpingitis is believed to account for more than 50% of these cases. Approximately 1% of women who undergo surgical sterilization seek reversal of the procedure. A wide variety of techniques has been developed in recent years. Macro and microsurgical techniques, laparoscopic and falloposcopic recanalization, balloon tuboplasty, hyste...

INTRODUCTION Women with previous tubal sterilisation seeking fertility are faced with treatment options of reconstructive tubal surgery or in vitro fertilisation (IVF) techniques. The aim was to assess the current viability of tubal anastomosis in a local clinical practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective cohort review of all sterilisation reversal cases from January 1998 to January 200...

OBJECTIVE To compare visual acuity, optic disc appearance, and transient pattern reversal visual evoked potentials as markers of possible visual dysfunction in children with syndromic craniosynostosis. METHODS Serial visual acuity, optic disc appearance, and pattern reversal visual evoked potential data were recorded in 8 patients with syndromic craniosynostosis before and after cranial vault...

PURPOSE The mechanism of cupping reversal seen after lowering intraocular pressure (IOP) in pediatric glaucoma is unknown. Theories include forward movement of the lamina cribrosa or shrinkage of a stretched scleral canal. Our study aimed to quantify changes in optic disc size occurring in children who had undergone glaucoma surgery. DESIGN Retrospective, single-center, observational case ser...

PURPOSE. To compare the effects of different warfarin reversal protocols on surgical delay and complication rate in hip fracture patients. METHODS. Records of 7 men and 17 women aged 68 to 93 (mean, 82) years who were on warfarin and underwent surgery for femoral neck fractures were reviewed. The time to surgery, complication rate, and mortality were recorded, as were the International Normalis...

The development of Prothrombin Complex Concentrates (PCCs) has led to better outcomes in patients receiving emergency reversal of warfarin. However, most published data describes the use of PCCs in the setting of major bleeding or emergent major surgery, with little information on neuraxial blockade. We describe a case of rapid warfarin reversal using PCC and subsequent surgery under spinal ana...

Angola’s difficulties in achieving macro-economic stability and economic liberalization have serious implications for private-sector development. Hyperinflation, and frequent policy reversal, constrain and distort investment in both the informal and formal parts of the private sector. But macro-economic instability arises in part out of mechanisms that subsidize powerful oligopolies, enabling t...

Background. Most orthopaedic units do not have a policy for reversal of anticoagulation in patients with hip fractures. The aim of this study was to examine the current practice in a district general hospital and determine difference in the time to surgery, if any, with cessation of warfarin versus cessation and treatment with vitamin K. Methods. A retrospective review of the case notes between...