66 patients admitted into Enugu State University Teaching Hospital (ESUTH) with enterocutanous fistula between January 1998 and December 2008 (a ten year period) was reviewed retrospectively. 45 (68%) of the patients were females and 21 (31.8%) were males. The ages ranged from 3years to 68 years with peak age-range of 30-39 years. 30 (45.5%) followed laparatomy for ileal typhoid perforation, 15...

introduction: hemodynamic alterations are a common complication during anesthetic induction with intravenous anesthesia. hypotension due to propofol injection may be very severe in cardiac vascular patient. ketamine produces the significant increasing but temporary in systematic blood stream, heartbeat, cardiac output through central sympathetic stimulation. objective : to determine effect of k...

Post Laparatomy pain can be minimized by giving pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapy. Nurses has a role to reduce the scale of patients with independent nursing care. One them is early mobilization This study aims determine effect decrease in post operations laparatomy. True-experimental research design use pretest-posttest control group approach. The sampling technique uses Consecut...

Two cases of bowel perforation after ingestion of two or more magnetic foreign bodies by children are described. Both patients had only minor gastrointestinal symptoms when submitted to hospital. In both cases, acute exploratory laparatomy was performed and bowel perforation was found. The literature describes no consensus to surgical strategy in such cases. Based on the present cases, our reco...

objective: to determine the epidemiological, clinical, laboratory characteristics as well as outcome of 411 patients with bowel obstruction in southern iran. methods: this was a cross-sectional study being performed in shahid faghihi hospital of shiraz between 2006 and 2012. we reviewed the medical charts of the 411 patients with initial diagnosis of bowel obstruction who were admitted to our c...

BACKGROUND Surgical drains, as useful as they are, have been noted not to be without complications. Small bowel herniation through a previous drain site is a rare complication of abdominal drain insertion. OBJECTIVE To report a case of strangulated hernia through a drain site. METHODS A 46-year-old civil servant was referred to our hospital from a general hospital with a two-week history of...

A 15- year-old boy was referred to Imam Reza Hospital with a right chest tube and chylothorax for 40 days. The patient had respiratory distress and undergone refractory treatment for chylothorax. The fluid content was chyle-rich in lipids. Computed Tomography of the chest showed a large, incompletely evacuated cyst in the left posterior mediastinum with left pleural effusion. The cyst could not...

The following case describes a young patient with failure to thrive and new-onset diarrhea who underwent upper GI series. The findings on upper GI series revealed an enterocolic fistula. Laparatomy was performed and the persistent pathology was lymphoma.