conclusions although postoperative intra-articular meperidine is a better alternative for bupivacaine, their combination could improve their analgesic effects compared with each other alone. results the bupivacaine-meperidine group had better duration of postoperative analgesia (p = 0.001), latter first analgesic request (p ≤ 0.001), lower total fentanyl consumption in first 24 hours after the ...

Endoscopic ear surgery (EES) is gaining more popularity and applications since late 90’s. Little was published about the complications and their endoscopic management including major intra-operative bleeding. We are reporting a case of management of bleeding from a high jugular bulb during an endoscopic transcanaltympanoplastywithout the need to a microscopic conversion to the best of our knowl...

  Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is a common childhood infectious disease in developing countries. It may be associated with various life threatening intra-cranial or extra-cranial complications. We report a 10 year-male child with a rare combination of right sided unsafe CSOM, mastoiditis, Bezold abscess, sigmoid and transverse sinus thrombosis, and bilateral abducens nerve palsy and ...

background: reintubation in patients after cardiac surgery is associated with undesirable consequences. the purpose of the present study was to identify variables that could predict reintubation necessity in this group of patients. methods: w e performed a prospective study in 1000 consecutive adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. the patients who required reint...

conclusions it seems that, in patients undergoing pncl, sa is as effective and safe as ga. patients who undergo pncl under sa require smaller amounts of analgesic dose and show hemodynamic stability during surgery and recovery time. also, sa technique provides decreased blood loss and shortened surgery as well as anesthesia times compared to ga. results map and heart rate show no significant di...

Herein, we report a case of sentinel lymph node mapping in a uterine cervix cancer patient, referring to the nuclear medicine department of our institute. Lymphoscintigraphy images showed inappropriate intra‐cervical injection of radiotracer. Blue dye technique was applied for sentinel lymph node mapping, using intra‐cervical injection of methylene blue. Two blue/cold sentinel lymph nodes, with...

Methods An observational retrospective study of a population of cardiac surgery ptes operate between August 2006 and February 2007. A non proportional sample stratified by cardiac surgery center was selected and clinical records reviewed. Intra-operative and all values of the first 24 hours of plasmatic or percutaneous glucose concentration and data of antimicrobial prophylaxis (timing, ATMs, d...

Laparoscopic surgery has both diagnostic and therapeutic advantages in the management of intra-abdominal cysts in children. Large cysts in small children pose technical challenges during laparoscopic surgery, requiring multiple incisions and advanced laparoscopic skills. This paper describes a novel laparoscopic technique using minimal manipulation for both aspiration and excision of the cyst. ...

laparoscopic orchiopexy (lo) was used in place of open surgery in 10 patients for diagnosing cryptorchidism in our department. in this method a large abdominal incision was not given in search of intra-abdominal testes. anorchia was diagnosed in four patients, which was shown to be bilateral in one. in one subject with ambiguous genitalia, revealing the presence of intra-abdominal gonads establ...

We report the successful treatment of a fluconazole-resistant intra-abdominal Candida infection (Candida albicans and Candida tropicalis) with posaconazole (SCH56592) in a 68-year-old woman with a recent history of intra-abdominal surgery.