Delayed gastric emptying is a significant postoperative complication of living donor hepatectomy for liver transplantation and may require endoscopic or surgical intervention in severe cases. Although the mechanism of posthepatectomy delayed gastric emptying remains unknown, vagal nerve injury during intraoperative dissection and adhesion formation postoperatively between the stomach and cut li...

Background: Postoperative delirium (POD) is a serious complication in elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery. This study was aimed at investigating the effect of perioperative administration dexmedetomidine for general anesthesia maintenance on occurrence and duration POD after Methods: randomized control trial done central India institution's ethical committee gave their approval. One hun...

Introduction The stomach graft is the most common digestive organ used to restore the intestinal continuity following esophagectomy for benign and malignant diseases. The colon and jejunal grafts are held in reserve .Graft necrosis is a dreaded and devastating complication and it is defined as death of the conduit used to reconstruct diseased esophagus. However graft ischemia is defined as inad...

OBJECTIVE Stroke is a serious complication to cardiac surgery, and is generally considered as a uniform disease regardless of its temporal relationship to surgery. Our hypothesis suggests that stroke, in association with surgery, reflects other characteristics than stroke occurring with a free interval. This issue was here explored for risk factors and survival effects. METHODS Data were coll...

aluminum phosphide (alp) is a solid fumigant which is widely used for a suicide attempt in iran. although neurologic symptoms are commonly reported, cerebrovascular stenosis is rare in alp poisoning. we described ischemic stroke as a delayed complication of alp intoxication. a 30-year-old man was admitted because of sudden onset left side hemiplegia, 11 days after intentional ingestion of three...

Complications associated with central venous catheters (CVC) can be early or delayed, and among them, hydrothorax is a rare one. Inappropriate initial positioning of the catheter, repeated changes in movement patient, improper vigilance may causative factors. We describe 47-year-old man delayed right-sided after subclavian line insertion. He was posted for anterior communicating artery aneurysm...

Volume 86, Number 7 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 669 A 39-year-old man presented with small nodules that had developed in his tattoos over the previous eight weeks. The nodules were not painful or pruritic. They were present only in the blue portions of the tattoo, but appeared in different tattoos on his arms and upper back (Figures 1 and 2). The tattoos were professionally appli...

Vascular injury caused by a central venous catheter (CVC) has been reported to be a rare complication, especially delayed vascular injury due to CVC has a few cases and it can be fatal because of delayed recognition and more serious complications. A 59-year-old woman with no available medical history was admitted for treatment of ovarian cancer. For the surgery, a triple-lumen CVC was placed th...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Ulcerative colitis can be cured by total proctocolectomy. The aim of this study was to investigate the risk factors for colectomy-related complications in ulcerative colitis patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS All patients with ulcerative colitis who underwent total colectomy at Seoul National University Hospital from 1990 to 2009 were identified through a surgical database. Their...