A 55-year-old lady reported to the surgical OPD with clinical findings of acute peritonitis. Emergency laparotomy was performed. The peritoneal cavity was full of purulent material, however, the gut was normal. An 8 x 6 cm thick walled cyst was found in the left ovary with a minute perforation and purulent fluid coming out of it. Thorough peritoneal lavage along with left oophorectomy was perfo...

a 14 years old boy who had a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt since the age of 5 months, was hospitalized due to headaches, nausea, vomiting and abdominal distension. in abdominal ct and sonographic evaluation, pancreatic pseudocyst or mesentric cyst were suspected. evaluation of the shunt by radionuclide, however, was diagnostic and revealed a pseudocyst at the peritoneal end of the shunt. the pati...

A 38-year-old man underwent peritoneal dialysis (PD) in May 2011 due to chronic renal failure with chronic glomerulonephritis. In early February 2012, he underwent laparoscopy to salvage and correct a malpositioned PD catheter. The laparoscopic intra-abdominal findings revealed turbid ascites and multiple fibrin lumps, despite the patient's lack of history of peritonitis. Based on these finding...

I R TERRY, D A W GRAN , AND .1 111ERMONTAY L.OR (Depaoritnew of0 KSurgeriv, St Geotrge's Hospitall, Lon1doni) Appropriate intraperitoncal antiproteinase chemotherapy for ANP may include the use of oligopeptide inhibitors of bacterial origin as these agents are capable of inactivating pancreatic proteinases of different specificities in compilex with (xL-maicroglobulin.' We h.lve studied the eft...

Background: Gastric lavage has been one of the pillars of the classic treatment for upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) for many years. The present study investigated effect of gastric lavage with hemostatic powder on complications of UGIB. Methods: This clinical trial study was performed on 54 patients who referred to the emergency department during the year 2017-2018. The subjects were di...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Based on the knowledge of the anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial actions of local anesthetics (LA), the objective of this study was to determine the effects of peritoneal lavage with bupivacaine on survival of mice with fecal peritonitis. METHODS Forty-eight Wistar mice, weighing between 300 and 330 g (311.45 +/- 9.67 g), undergoing laparotomy 6 hours after inducti...