BACKGROUND There is increasing complexity in the management of patients with acute severe exacerbation of inflammatory bowel disease [IBD; Crohn's disease (CD), ulcerative colitis (UC)] with frequent requirement for urgent surgery. AIM To determine whether a weekend effect exists for IBD care in the United States. METHODS We used data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) 2007, the lar...

The authors report the complication that occurred after stereotactic catheterization in a 71-year-old patient with a spontaneous intracerebral hematoma (ICH). After stereotactic catheterization, a subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) was found in the post-operative CT scan. An SAH is a rare complication related with stereotactic catheterization. We investigated the cause and reported about a newly oc...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to report the short-term complication rates and mid-term subtalar fusion rates following operative management of calcaneal fractures. METHODS This is a retrospective study of Californians undergoing operative treatment of a calaneus fracture from 1995 to 2005. The main outcomes reported are readmission for a short-term complication within 90 days of sur...

Background: Infection and rejection are the most common complications after liver transplantation. Both may develop during initial post-operative progress. Early differentiation is important for determination of the appropriate treatment. Objective: To investigate the ability of procalcitonin (PCT) in differentiation between infection and rejection in complicated cases in the immediate post-ope...

BACKGROUNDS Intracranial post-operative re-haemorrhage is an important complication in patients with hypertensive intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH). The purpose of the present study was to determine the value of the computed tomography (CT) blend sign in predicting post-operative re-haemorrhage in patients with ICH. METHODS A total of 126 patients with ICH were included in the present study. Al...

AIM To investigate the long-term effect of the number of resected lymph nodes (LNs) on the prognosis of patients with node-negative gastric cancer. METHODS Clinical data of 211 patients with gastric cancer, without nodal involvement, were analyzed retrospectively after D2 radical operation. We analyzed the relationship between the number of resected LNs with the 5-year survival, the recurrenc...

Infrainguinal arterial reconstruction increases limb salvage rates, however, the factors that predict time to graft failure remain ill-defined. The aim of this study was to define such predictors. A retrospective analysis of infrainguinal arterial reconstructions performed for symptomatic peripheral arterial disease refractory to medical/interventional therapies over a 6 year period was perform...

Abstract Aim Post-operative hypocalcaemia is a serious complication of thyroid and parathyroid surgery if not recognised treated immediately. With sub specialisation day case surgery, on call may be unfamiliar with immediate management. This can lead to non standardised inefficient management patients. The aim was develop patient information card which outlined the symptoms initial evidenced ba...

INTRODUCTION In our study, we reviewed efficacy and complication rates of open subinguinal varicocelectomy (OSV) and loupe assisted subinguinal varicocelectomy (LASV) using seminal and hormonal parameters in a prospective randomized study. MATERIALS AND METHODS We prospectively studied 60 males with Grade 2 and Grade 3 varicocele. Thirty patients underwent OSV and the other 30 patients underw...