Open heart surgeries were performed on 2463 cases . Acute renal failure occurred in 18 patients after such procedures in 11 patients after correction of congenital anomalies and in 7 patients after valvular surgery. Peritoneal and hemodialysis was required in 16 patients. lntraoperative hypotension, bleeding, low cardiac output, excessive use of cardiotonics, cardiac arrest and mismatched trans...

Colonoscopy is performed for both diagnostic and therapeutic indications. Although rare, associated complications can be quite serious. The frequency of these complications depends mainly on the skills of the physicians doing the procedure, and the diagnostic or therapeutic indications. Major complications include adverse anesthetic related events, aspiration pneumonia, bleeding, and colonic pe...

PURPOSE Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) have been proposed for controlling peritoneal seeding metastasis in some kinds of cancers, including those of colorectal origin, but their safety and oncological benefits are subjects of debate. We present our early experience with those procedures. METHODS Data were retrospectively collected from all pa...

Massive lower gastrointestinal bleed from an appendiceal stump is rare. Most often bleeding is in the peritoneal cavity or the retroperitoneum, rarely in the cecum. To our knowledge, massive bleeding from an appendiceal stump occurring 3 weeks after laparoscopic appendectomy and successfully treated endoscopically has not been reported previously. A 25-year-old man presented with the chief comp...

Heparin is a soluble glycosaminoglycan largely used as an anti-coagulant drug and with well known anti‑inflammatory effects. However, heparin is currently not used as an anti‑inflammatory agent in the clinic due to a risk of bleeding as well as its complex mechanism of action. The underlying mechanism of the anti‑inflammatory action of heparin and its effector targets have remained to be fully ...

BACKGROUND Microwave endometrial ablation is an effective treatment for dysfunctional uterine bleeding. Patients with leiomyomata, including submucosal leiomyomata up to 3 cm, may also be treated with microwave endometrial ablation. CASES A 46-year-old woman with multiple leiomyomata and menometrorrhagia underwent microwave endometrial ablation. Two months after microwave endometrial ablation...

BACKGROUND Women that carry germ-line mutations for BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are at an increased risk of developing breast, ovarian and peritoneal cancer. Primary peritoneal carcinoma is a rare tumour histologically identical to papillary serous ovarian carcinoma. Risk-reducing surgery in the form of mastectomy and oophorectomy in premenopausal women has been recommended to prevent breast and ovari...

Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) has been widely utilized for secondary prevention in patients with cardiovascular diseases, such as post-drug eluting stent insertion, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. The occurrence of bleeding complications, including intracranial hemorrhage, extensively studied relation to DAPT. However, the acute spontaneous subdural hematomas this context is relativ...

conclusions we suggest avoiding the use of tamoxifen for eps in patients with superimposed calciphylaxis. introduction encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (eps) is a rare but devastating complication of peritoneal dialysis (pd). tamoxifen has been generally well-tolerated, even without randomized controlled trials. case presentation herein, we report a case of a patient undergoing 12 years of pd...

299 of patients with AH initially present with soft tissue bleeding, mucocutaneous bleeds, epistaxis, cutaneous bleeds, gastrointestinal bleeding, or mucosal bleeding of the genitourinary tract.4 We present a case of a 63-year-old man with a serious complication of acquired hemophilia type A (AHA). The patient was admitted to the Department of Hematology with suspected AH, which was then confir...