BACKGROUND The lack of standardized reporting of the complications of radical prostatectomy in the literature has made it difficult to compare incidences across institutions and across different surgical approaches. OBJECTIVE To define comprehensively the incidence, severity, and timing of onset of medical and surgical complications of open retropubic prostatectomy (RP) and laparoscopic radic...

BACKGROUND Cardiac arrest and sudden death during distance-running events have been reported but other medical complications, including serious life-threatening complications have not been well described. OBJECTIVE To document the incidence and nature of medical complications during 21 and 56 km running races. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Two Oceans Marathon races (21 and 56 km races...

aim : to assess the complications of bile duct injury in laparoscopic cholecystectomy in loghman medical center, tehran. background : the incidence of complications of laparoscopic cholecystectomy has increased dramatically since the introduction and widespread use of laparoscopic cholecystectomy.  patients and methods : from january 1998 to january 2002, a total of 155 laparoscopic cholecystec...

OBJECTIVES Construction of a simple preoperative risk score for patients in high risk of potentially preventable 'medical' complications. Secondary objectives were to construct simple preoperative risk scores for 'severe medical', 'surgical' and 'total' potentially preventable complications. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING Elective primary unilateral total hip and knee arthr...

BACKGROUND An 8-year era of interrupted indigenous measles transmission in Bulgaria came to an end in April 2009 when a large epidemic occurred that would eventually claim 24,253 cases and 24 deaths; infants, children and young adults of the Roma community were disproportionally affected. Compared with Western Europe, case-fatality rate and proportion of medical complications were uncharacteris...

neurologic and psychologic complications are usually related to drug toxicity, infections or symptoms induced by deterioration of renal allograft function. metabolic encephalopathy, hypertensive encephalopathy, cerebrovascular events, and new-onset seizures have all been reported in organ-transplant recipients. infections can be caused by listeria, cryptococcus, nocardia, aspergillus and mucor....

BACKGROUND Patients with significant medical problems requiring major otolaryngology procedures are at high risk for both medical and surgical complications. OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors associated with perioperative complications in medically compromised patients undergoing major otolaryngology procedures. METHODS Ninety-three consecutive patients with significant comorbid medical il...

We propose a first termontological analysis of temporal parameters and relations applied to the case of medical complications in postliver transplant management (PLTM). Medical complications contribute to different degrees of morbidity and mortality in the process of medical follow-up after transplant surgery. Understanding the full ontological and conceptual complexity of such complex spanning...