Background: We report the management of a very rare combination two severe surgical emergencies, ruptured aortic aneurysm with gangrene left colon. Both events separately present high mortality rate in aneurysms 48.5%.
 Case report: case 59-year-old woman that was admitted to service Emergencies at University Hospital Center “Mother Theresa” Tirana on January 4th 2013, after being transfer...

background: peripheral vascular injury associated with lower limb trauma is a well-known emergency. the experience for the management of popliteal artery trauma have mainly come from managing the traumas of military personnels during iran-iraq war. the present study compared the effects of two currently-used surgical techniques in the management of popliteal trauma, namley femoropopliteal bypas...

PURPOSE To report results on 144 cases following arthroscopic resection arthroplasty (ARA) with or without interposition for basal joint arthritis. METHODS Cases undergoing ARA for thumb carpometacarpal osteoarthritis between 2004 and 2011 were prospectively enrolled (n = 178). Data were collected before surgery and after surgery at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months and annually thereafter. Patients wer...

Authors: Eftychios Siniorakis, Department of Cardiology, Sotiria Chest Diseases Hospital, Athens, Greece; George Kirvassilis, Nikolaos Exadaktylos, Konstantine Karidis doi:10.1510/icvts.2008.199950A We read with interest and wish to congratulate Dr. Makhija et al. w1x on their reported case on delayed cardiac tamponade following posttraumatic diaphragmatic hernia without an intrapericardial com...

OBJECTIVES Gastric conduit cancer (GCC), which is a carcinoma that arises in the gastric conduit after oesophagectomy, often negatively affects long-term survivors of oesophageal cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence and clinical implications of GCC. METHODS We reviewed data for 863 patients who underwent an oesophagectomy and a reconstruction of the gastric conduit from...

Background: Peripheral vascular injury associated with lower limb trauma is a well-known emergency. The experience for the management of popliteal artery trauma have mainly come from managing the traumas of military personnels during Iran-Iraq war. The present study compared the effects of two currently-used surgical techniques in the management of popliteal trauma, namley femoropopliteal bypas...