INTRA-VENOUS INJECTION OF SALINE SOLUTION IN COLLAPSE FOLLOWING HÆMORRHAGE.

Utility of Saline Injections in Hæmorrhage

Herpes zoster following intra-articular corticosteroid injection.

Localized herpes zoster following intra-articular corticosteroid injection is remarkable. We describe an 80-year-old woman with severe osteoarthritis that received an intra-articular injection of 80 mg methylprednisolone in her knee, followed 1 day later by the appearance of linear unilateral vesicles and bullae on her leg in a dermatomal distribution adjacent to the injection site. The roofs o...

Intra-Abdominal Hematoma Following Enoxaparin Injection

An elderly patient, who was being treated for therapeutic enoxaparin for a couple of days due to suspected deep vein thrombosis, was admitted to hospital following a collapse and severe abdominal pain. She was in hypovolemic shock and was fluid resuscitated. Ultrasound scan and computed tomography (CT) scan showed a large pelvic hematoma. Radiologists also suspected a possibility of bleeding fr...

Sclerosing Cholangitis Induced by Intra-Biliary Tree Injection of Silver Nitrate or Hypertonic Saline Solutions in Rabbit

Background: One of the most serious late complications, after evacuation of liver hydatid cyst and instillation of scolicidal agents is sclerosing cholangitis, most probably caused by the type of scolicidal agents instilled. Objective:  To determine the incidence of sclerosing cholangitis after intra-biliary tract infusion of 5% saline and 0.5% silver nitrate. Methods: 5% hypertonic saline and ...

Choroidal Hæmorrhage Following Cataract Extraction

TiiEsii notes on choroidal haemorrhage are based on 30 cases occurring throughout a series of 2,777 cases of cataract extraction done by Dr. Holland of Ouetta, and his staff, during two seasons at Shikarpur, Sind, where the incidence of glaucoma is very high. Tonometry and Choroidal Hemorrhage.?Perhaps the most striking fact noted with regard to the complications following cataract extraction, ...