AIM To describe the management and outcome of patients with duodenal webs, managed over a period of 12 ½ years in our unit. METHODS It is a retrospective case series of 18 patients with congenital duodenal webs, managed in our unit, between 1999 and 2011. The medical record of these patients was retrieved and analyzed for demographic details, clinical presentation, associated anomalies, and o...

addition to keeping an eye on the quality of our clinical services, making small changes in how we deliver services can have a big impact on how patients feel about their experience – which will in turn motivate them and others to come for the eye care they need. Here are a few things to you may be able to try. Look after your staff Patients want us to listen to them. They want to be treated wi...

Despite numerous basic studies on wound healing, keloids remain difficult to treat because of a lack of effective preventive or treatment methods. They have ugly external appearances and hinder daily life activities, as they are occasionally accompanied by unbearable itchiness or pain. In particular, if they occur in exposed areas of the face or upper and lower limbs, they will induce cosmetic ...

OBJECTIVE To study the immediate and late results obtained from the implantation of vena cava filters in cancer patients with deep vein thrombosis concomitant with neoplasia. METHODS This was a retrospective evaluation of 50 patients with an association of cancer and deep venous thrombosis who underwent interruption of the inferior vena cava and the insertion of permanent vena cava filters. T...

background some sonographic positions for detection of abdominal wall hernias needed .in this paper we described the sonographic technique of abdominal wall hernia. methods from june 2013 to july 2016, three hundred seventy four patients referred in our department for evaluation of abdominal wall hernia (median age, 38 years; range 2 - 86 years). one hundred and ninety patients had abdominal he...

objectives: major depression and anxiety disorders are common psychiatric disorders among cancer patients and are associated with psychosocial impairment and decreased quality of life. depressed and anxious cancer patients also experience a more rapid progression of cancer symptoms, increased mortality, more metastasis and pain, and increased medical utilization. although some research has expl...

To cite: Iedema RA, Angell B. BMJ Qual Saf 2015;24:356–359. We are investing considerable resources in defining and measuring patients’ care expectations. Such measurement will yield insight into whether and how services are meeting patients’ experience expectations. But because measurement is inherently distanced in time and space, it does not resolve patients’ experience of feeling ‘reluctant...

Pain after Cardiac Surgery (CS) is the most common patient complaint. However the first 48 h after surgery, when patients' pain is the most severe, is generally spent in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). It is almost impossible for patients to report their pain because of their inadequate level of consciousness in the ICU. Many factors alter verbal communication with patients, such as administrati...

Awake craniotomy Brain neoplasm Patient experience Phenomenology Qualitative research methods Intraoperative mapping is a well-established and safe technique to maximize the excision of tumors involving the eloquent cortex while minimizing neurological damage. Although different techniques are used, very little has been documented about how the patients feel, what they think about, or how they ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A retrospective analysis was performed to assess the efficacy of various treatments of non-Hodgkin's primary bone lymphomas (PBL). DESIGN AND METHODS Fifty-two consecutive, previously untreated PBL patients were seen between the years 1982 and 1998. Information was obtained regarding each patient's presentation and clinical course. Histology was reviewed in all cases...