OBJECTIVE Although minimally invasive posterior cervical foraminotomy (MI-PCF) is an established approach for motion preservation, the outcomes are variable among patients. The objective of this study was to identify significant factors that influence motion preservation after MI-PCF. METHODS Forty-eight patients who had undergone MI-PCF between 2004 and 2012 on a total of 70 levels were stud...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical presentation and results of pulmonary resection in simple and complex aspergilloma of the lung. STUDY DESIGN Observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, from January 2003 to December 2008. METHODOLOGY Fifty-one adult patients with unilateral aspergilloma lung were includ...

Corresponding author at: Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Via Salvador Allende, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. De Bernardo). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optom.2017.10.001 1888-4296/ © 2017 Spanish General Council of Optometry. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://c...

Background. Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus (SA) has been shown to be an independent risk factor for SA surgical site infections (SSI), with a SSI rate 2-9 times higher in carriers. Decolonization with nasal mupirocin is often recommended for carriers or high risk individuals, however this process requires preoperative screening and patient compliance with application days prior to surg...

BACKGROUND The effectiveness of chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery (CRTS) in patients with resectable esophageal carcinoma remains controversial. We performed a systematic review of the literature with meta-analysis. METHODS Electronic databases were used to identify published studies between January 1992 and April 2012. Pooled relative risk (RR) with 95% confidence interval (95% CI) was u...

BACKGROUND Non-cardiac surgical morbidity and mortality is a major global public health burden. Sub-Saharan African perioperative outcome data are scarce. South Africa (SA) faces a unique public health challenge, engulfed as it is by four simultaneous epidemics: (i) poverty-related diseases; (ii) non-communicable diseases; (iii) HIV and related diseases; and (iv) injury and violence. Understand...

BACKGROUND Regional anaesthetic techniques have benefited those patients undergoing laparoscopic surgeries that are deemed high risk to receive general anaesthesia (GA). But spinal anaesthesia (SA) has not been routinely employed as the sole technique for laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to uncover feasibility and safety of SA for conducting LC. METHODS ...

Introduction The question of preoperative anxiety in an ophthalmological patient and its relief outpatient setting is becoming increasingly relevant due to the improvement technique equipment ophthalmic surgery, when practice «one-day surgery» common. It could not only affecting course operation, but also a factor limited availability this type medical care patients. Purpose. To analyze relatio...