A 49 year-old man with a history of alcohol-induced cirrhosis presented for orthotopic liver transplantation. His medical history is remarkable for mild hypertension treated with metoprolol and aldactone; recent admissions for ascitic fluid drainage, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and transient episodes of hepatic encephalopathy; and a prior history of an open cholecystectomy. His admission ...

Transfusion-related acute lung injury is a life-threatening complication of hemotherapy associated with the transfusion of plasma-containing blood products. It is characterized by acute respiratory distress, pulmonary edema and hypoxemia. Although its frequency is unknown, Food and Drug Administration data suggest that it is the third most common cause of transfusion-associated deaths, represen...

OBJECTIVES To quantify and describe trampoline-related injuries in children attending an urban pediatric emergency department. METHODS Retrospective cohort study of consecutive patients attending a children's emergency department with trampoline-related injuries over a 3-month period (May-July 2005). RESULTS One hundred and sixty-eight children were treated for trampoline-related injuries d...

TRALI (Transfusion related acute lung injury) is a devastating complication of Blood transfusions or its components irrespective of the blood grouping and cross match, We report a case of a Philipino house wife who had blood transfusion for her vaginal lacerations and developed acute pulmonary edema immediately afterwards. Antigranulocyte antibodies were not found in the donors. The patient rec...

BACKGROUND Peripheral vascular injuries are frequently encountered in lethal and nonlethal trauma. Although significant improvements in treatment have been achieved, such injuries are still important causes of mortality. METHODS In this study, the records of 6769 autopsies performed between 1996 and 2006 at the Council of Forensic Medicine Bursa Group Chairmanship Morgue Department were evalu...

Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is a life-threatening adverse effect of transfusion that is occurring at increasing incidence in the United States and that, in the past 2 reporting years, has been the leading cause of transfusionrelated death. TRALI and acute lung injury (ALI) share a common clinical definition except that TRALI is temporally and mechanistically related to the tra...

Truancy has well-documented short-term and long-term consequences, but there are few studies that look at its impact on injury-related mortality. This study evaluated the rate of injury-related mortality for 2006-2010 among youth (11-17 years old) with a history of severe truancy compared with youth without such history. There were 168 injury-related deaths (51 homicide, 29 suicide and 88 unint...

The term Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury (TRALI) was coined in 1985. It is a relatively rare, life-threatening clinical syndrome characterized by acute respiratory failure and non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema during or following a blood transfusion. Although its true incidence is unknown, a rate 1 out of every 5000 transfusions has been quoted. TRALI has been the most common cause of trans...

abstract   objective: to evaluate and review our experience with pediatric spinal injuries and factors affecting outcome, the authors conducted a retrospective clinical study of 43 cases (32 boys, 11 girls) of pediatric spine injuries treated during four years (january 1999 to december 2003).   methods: forty-three children with spinal injuries were studied retrospectively over four years and w...

Persisting dizziness and balance problems after mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury (mmTBI) may result in considerable disability. The primary aim of this study was to explore the factors associated with dizziness-related disability one year post-injury. Data from 64 participants (mean age 39.4 [SD 13.0] years; 45 [70.3%] women) mmTBI a previous randomised controlled trial were analysed usi...