The article presents a clinical case of the staged treatment patient with functioning colostomy and segmental form Hirschsprung's disease. Challenges in diagnosing determining tactics reconstructive restorative surgery appropriate cases were demonstrated absence adequate medical documentation.

Benefits of Staged Carotid Stenting Before Cardiac Surgery: a Randomized Trial Is Unwise To the Editor: We congratulate Dr Randall and coworkers for the low incidence of neurological complications described in their article focused on a staged “hybrid” approach, consisting of carotid stenting before cardiac operations in patients with concurrent disease.1 We applied a similar strategy in 21 sel...

AIM In present study, we aimed to compare the staged and combined surgery in patients with severe carotid stenosis and coronary atherosclerosis and detect the factors affecting mortality and morbidity. MATERIAL AND METHOD Between 2004 and 2008, 120 patients with predominant ischemic heart disease were enrolled to study. Patients were divided into three groups on basis surgery procedure. Group...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of staged bilateral single-port thoracoscopic lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema (COPE). Eleven male patients with a mean age of 60.27±12.11 years with bilateral COPE and bullae were admitted to the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Xuzhou Central Hospital from ...

The authors assessed clinical outcome for up to one year after staged bilateral pallidotomy in 14 patients with advanced PD. One year after surgery, dyskinesias were virtually abolished and there were significant reductions in "off" time (67%) and activities of daily living "off" scores (24%), as well as nonsignificant reduction in "off" motor score (39%); "on" scores were unchanged. One patien...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was a comparison of risk-adjusted outcomes of 3 approaches to carotid revascularization in the open heart surgery (OHS) population. BACKGROUND Without randomized clinical trials, the best approach to managing coexisting severe carotid and coronary disease remains uncertain. Staged carotid endarterectomy (CEA) followed by OHS or combined CEA and OHS are commonl...

mycotic aortic aneurysms account for 1–3% of all aortic aneurysms. the management of this disease is controversial. since open surgical repair is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates, endovascular aneurysm repair is an alternative treatment method with promising early and midterm outcomes, although its long-term durability is unknown. secondary aortoenteric fistulas may occur iatr...

BACKGROUND A retrospective study of staged surgery for severe rigid scoliosis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the result of staged surgery in treatment of severe rigid scoliosis and to discuss the indications. METHODS From 1998 to 2006, 21 cases of severe rigid scoliosis with coronal Cobb angle more than 80 degrees were treated by staged surgeries including anterior release and hal...

AIMS The aim of this study was to examine the accuracy of standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the localised staging of prostate cancer in those who had undergone radical prostatectomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS The cohort consisted of 110 patients who had undergone MRI for staging of prostate cancer and subsequently underwent radical prostatectomy. T stage was analysed both on MRI and fro...