Background The onset of postoperative septic complications has recently been associated to serum levels of interleukin (IL) IL-6 and IL-10. Patients with complications have higher serum levels than patients without complication after surgery. IL-6 has been recognized as early marker of postoperative septic events. Furthermore IL-6 increases with age, expecially if there are associated diseases....

Introduction The aim of this article is to compare the results of high varix ligation with and without sclerotherapy. Material and methods Between November 2014 and December 2015, sixty patients with varicocele were included in this study. Patients were divided into two equal groups; group I (underwent high varix ligation), and group II (underwent high varix ligation with a retrograde injecti...

background: the incidence of coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (cabg) in elderly patients has been increasing. there are contradictory reports on the early outcome of elderly coronary artery patients as compared with their young counterparts. we designed this retrospective study to address this issue. methods: w e retrospectively analyzed the results of 1489 on–pump cabg cases performed a...

BACKGROUND To systematically analyse clinical trials on needlescopic (NC) versus laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) that evaluated the effectiveness of both procedures for the management of cholelithiasis. METHODS A systematic review of the literature was undertaken. Clinical trials on NC versus LC were selected according to specific criteria and analyzed to generate summative data expressed i...

The value of tracheostomy in the postoperative care of certain thoracic and neurosurgical patients has been recognized for some time,' but there has not been widespread acceptance of this procedure as an adjunct to therapy for the critically ill general surgical patient. The present report concerns the prophylactic use of tracheostomy in a series of aged and bad risk patients. For each of these...

Objective: Objective of this study is to compare complications in postseptoplasty patients using conventional nasal packing and glove finger packing. Materials and methods: In our study 95 patients who underwent septoplasty were enrolled and written consent taken for the study among these 95 patients, 50 patients were put in group A and 45 patients in group B. In group A patients glove finger p...

OBJECTIVE(S) The literature on postoperative complications in cardiac surgery patients shows high incidences of postoperative complications such as delirium, depression, pressure ulcer, infection, pulmonary complications and atrial fibrillation. These complications are associated with functional and cognitive decline and a decrease in the quality of life after discharge. Several studies attempt...

Postoperative complications are directly related to poor surgical outcomes in the elderly. This review outlines evidence based quality initiatives focused on decreasing neurologic, cardiac, and pulmonary complications in the elderly surgical patient. Important anesthesia quality initiatives for prevention of delirium, the most common neurologic complication in elderly surgical patients, are out...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Complications after adenotonsillectomy (AT) in children have been extensively studied, but differences between children with and without obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have not been systematically reported. Our objective was to identify the most frequent complications after AT, and evaluate if differences between children with and without OSA exist. METHODS Several ele...