In the United States, oral mechanical bowel preparation (OMBP), defined as the use of an oral preparation given prior to surgery to clear fecal material from the bowel lumen, is often prescribed preoperatively for patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery.1 OMBP is sometimes used as a precaution in anticipation of possible iatrogenic bowel injury during abdominal and pelvic surgeries that...

Vesicovaginal fi stulas are a most common complication accompanied by gynecologic surgeries, but other types of fi stulas rarely occur. Especially rectovesical fi stulas arising post-operative complication occur in extremely lower possibility and very few cases have been reported in the world. Interestingly, our case showed a symptom of urinary drainage from the anus unlike other cases with pne...

Postoperative alopecia is an uncommon complication and its outcome is aesthetically drastic. Although its mechanism has not been clearly elucidated, a proposed risk factor is steep Trendelenburg positioning (30-40 degrees) that is frequently used during robotic gynecologic surgeries. We report a case of postoperative alopecia in 53-year-old female patient who had undergone robotic-assisted lapa...

  Background: Reservation of blood leads to blood wastage if the blood is not transfused. Therefore, in some centers only blood type and screen are evaluated. In this study, the efficacy of a blood crossmatch-to-transfusion ratio was measured and then compared with the standard levels. Methods: This prospective study was conducted during one year in a university hospital. During this period, 39...

background the benefits of laparoscopy over laparotomy include lower blood loss, decreased length of hospital stay, and decreased postoperative pain. it is unknown, however, whether patients with previous surgeries are good candidates for laparoscopic surgery. objectives to determine whether the location and type (laparoscopic surgery vs. laparotomy) of previous abdominal surgery is associated ...

Introduction: Urological problems are common in women, especially those undergoing surgeries, due to the proximity of urinary tract and reproductive tract. This study aims present complications major gynecological surgeries our institution. Materials Methods: reviewed sixty-one case notes patients who had gynecologic at Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt. The data were ana...

OBJECTIVE To compare frequencies of complications among HIV-infected and-uninfected women undergoing common gynecological surgical procedures in inpatient settings. METHODS We used 1994-2007 data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, a nationally representative sample of inpatient hospitalizations. Our analysis included discharge records of women...

Laparoscopy is rapidly replacing laparotomy in the field of Background gynecologic surgery. Generally, there are limited data concerning the utility of single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) in gynecologic surgery. Specifically, in Saudi Arabia, a third-world country, data are further limited; only one related study has been conducted so far. The purpose of this study is to retrospectively...

OBJECTIVE Compression of the left common iliac vein between the right common iliac artery and the vertebrae is known to be associated with the occurrence of left iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis (DVT). In this study, we described the variability in vascular anatomy of the common iliac veins and evaluated the relationship between the degree of iliac vein compression and the presence of DVT using...