normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background : routine episiotomy is a controversial issue among gynecologists. the aim of this study was to compare early maternal and neonatal complications of restrictive episiotomy and routine episiotomy in primiparus vaginal delivery. methods : in this descriptive cross-sectional study, two groups of primiparus normal vaginal delivery (nvd) cases...

Right atrial laceration is described as a complication of external cardiac massage in two patients. In each there was a pre-existent cause of weakness of the atrial wall. There was pronounced right atrial dilation with attenuation of the wall in one case, and in the other there was a granulomatous myocarditis involving the atrial wall. The significance of atrial laceration as a complication of ...

A 12-year-old boy presented with a large liver laceration after blunt abdominal trauma. He was treated nonoperatively and subsequently had bile peritonitis from a bile leak. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) visualized the bile duct injury and allowed decompression of the biliary tree with an endoscopically placed biliary stent. A drain also was placed over the laceration th...

khataminia g, md*; keramati ag, md ahvaz jondi shapoor university of medical sciences, ahvaz, iran *corresponding author: [email protected] purpose: to report the demographics and clinical profile, and outcomes of canalicular laceration repaired with mini monoka monocanalicular stent. method: all patients who had undergone canalicular laceration repair over 4 years (2004-2008) at imam khom...

A 69-year-old female patient underwent a standard laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication for repair of a hiatal hernia and correction of reflux. A Harmonic scalpel was used as the only energy source intraoperatively. The operation was uneventful until the middle of the procedure when a significant amount of blood was noted in the left upper quadrant. After aspiration and careful inspection, a 5-cm ...

A rare case of pediatric brachial plexus laceration is presented. A five-year-old boy who sustained a sharp laceration on his right axillary region was immediately operated. The axillary artery, radial, ulnar and musculocutaneous nerve branches of the brachial plexus, and the lateral root of the median nerve were totally lacerated. The medial root of the median nerve was partially transected. A...

We report a relatively rare case of acute aortic regurgitation due to spontaneous laceration of aorta without dissecting aneurysm. A 73-year-old male who had complained of sudden onset of chest discomfort was admitted to our hospital, and severe aortic regurgitation with aortic valve prolapse was detected by echocardiography. There were not any echographic and radiographic evidences of dissecti...

PURPOSE To report the finding of Thelazia callipaeda within the human subconjunctival space. METHODS An 81-year-old man with a history of traumatic conjunctival laceration that occurred 2 years previously had white worms in the subconjunctival space of his right eye. RESULTS Five worms were removed from the subconjunctival space via a local peritomy, since there was no conjunctival lacerati...

BACKGROUND Lacerations account for a large number of ED visits. Is there a "golden period" beyond which lacerations should not be repaired primarily? What type of relationship exists between time of repair and wound infection rates? Is it linear or exponential? Currently, the influence of laceration age on the risk of infection in simple lacerations repaired is not clearly defined. We conducted...

background: teat lacerations are serious injuries thatendanger the survival of a cow within the herd. in excessivelacerations, the wound should be left to heal by second intentionhealing process. however, tissue contraction during healing canchange the alignment of the teat, creating problems for machinemilking. objectives: the purpose of the present study was toevaluate the transplantation of ...