Incisional hernias of the abdominal wall occur in up to 11% of all other postoperative patients and in as many as 23% of patients with postoperative wound infections. Trocar site hernias after laparoscopic surgery are reported in up to 6% of patients. Parastomal hernia formation occurs in 28% of ileostomies and 48% of colostomies. Morbidity depends on the location and contents of the hernia, as...

The purpose of this issue of Hazard is to provide an overview of injury deaths in Victoria based on the Victorian Coroner’s Facilitation System. Although these data are not timely, they highlight outstanding causes and identify trends and changes over time to an extent unavailable from other current sources. It updates Hazard 11, June 1992 and provides an insight into the depth of timely data s...

Background: A thorough understanding of the Rheumatic Heart disease is important to aid in the management of patients with RHD. We hereby thus study various presentations, distributions, clinical profile of various types of valvular involvement in patients with RHD, complications of RHD such as heart failure, arrhythmias, chamber dilation, thromboembolic manifestation, pulmonary hypertension et...