OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to assess the treatment efficacy of transanal irrigation and parental satisfaction in children with intractable functional constipation (FC) treated with Peristeen. METHODS Cross-sectional survey study among parents of children (age 0-18 years) treated with Peristeen for FC (based on the Rome III criteria). Anonymous questionnaires were sent out to parents ...

Surgical arrhythmia ablation techniques can achieve epicardial transmural lesions but require a combination of surgical access and endoscopic approaches. We sought to adapt a surgical ablation catheter to a percutaneous subxyphoid approach. The EpiSense nContact (Epi) is a surgical ablation catheter that contains a 3-cm ablation coil, an open irrigation system, and a suction mechanism to mainta...

BACKGROUNDS/AIMS Conventional graft perfusion method using one small-caliber catheter takes a relatively long time for right liver graft perfusion, thus some modification is needed. In this study, we intended to assess the effectiveness of right liver graft perfusion methods through comparison of different infusion catheters. METHODS The study consisted of two parts including one bench experi...

Treatment of septic flexor tenosynovitis at the hand requires significant hospital resources in terms of operative time and subsequent management of tendon irrigation. Delayed recovery or treatment failure may require re-irrigation and drainage. This may be due to failure to adequately irrigate the entire flexor sheath. We describe a method of closed tendon sheath irrigation which is simple to ...

ment for intra−abdominal abscess, al− though operative mortality is high [1]. Percutaneous drainage is another option but is associated with significant morbid− ity due to the relatively long route used for catheter placement [1,2]. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)−guided drainage is po− tentially safe and effective for intra−ab− dominal abscess. We report a case of omental bursa abscess complicatin...

DESCRIPTION A 93-year-old man presented with gross haematuria for 1 month. The urine analysis showed numerous RBCs in microscopy. The renal function was normal and urine cytology revealed nothing. Tracing the patient’s history it was found that he had received radical prostatectomy 20 years ago, but he denied any other trauma or surgery history. An indwelling catheter followed by normal saline ...

INTRODUCTION Occasionally, urologists may see patients requiring temporary bladder irrigation at hospitals without stocks of specialist irrigation apparatus. One option is to transfer the patient to a urology ward, but often there are outstanding medical issues that require continued specialist input. Here, we describe an improved system for delivering temporary bladder irrigation by utilizing ...

BACKGROUND It is thought that only a thin layer of tissue adjacent to the electrode is heated directly by electrical current (resistive heating) during radiofrequency ablation. Most of the thermal injury is thought to result from conduction of heat from the surface layer. The purpose of this study was to determine whether lesion depth could be increased by producing direct resistive heating dee...