OBJECTIVE We wanted to determine whether combined radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and acetic acid-hypertonic saline solution (AHS) instillation can increase the extent of thermally mediated coagulation in in vivo rabbit liver tissue. We also wished to determine the optimal concentration of the solution in order to maximize its effect on extent of the RFA-induced coagulation. MATERIALS AND METHO...

A 45-year-old woman presented to another hospital with worsening abdominal pain and nausea 1 week after an uncomplicated laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Serial computed tomography imaging showed an enlarging fluid collection in the perihepatic and subcapsular spaces measuring 23×19×21cm. Initial endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) scan...

objective: to evaluate the effect of fibrin perihepatic packing on controlling liver hemorrhage and liver wound healing. methods: in this animal experimental study, 20 adult male sprague dawley rats, weighing 200-220 g, were included. stab wound injury was created by number 15 scalpel, so that bilateral liver capsules and liver tissue were cut, and acute bleeding was accrued. the animals were d...

BACKGROUND Severe blunt hepatic injury is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in pediatric patients. Damage control (DC) surgery has been reported to be useful in severely compromised children with hepatic injury. We applied such a technique in the treatment of a case of hemodynamically unstable grade IV blunt hepatic injury in an eight-year-old girl. This case is the first to use multimod...

Accepted 10 March 1998 A 20-year-old man presented in May 1996 with complaints of severe frontal headache, vomiting and diplopia of 2 weeks duration. On examination there was bilateral papilloedema and 6th cranial nerve involvement. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was suggestive of superior sagittal sinus thrombosis (figure 1). The patient was started on daltaparin , antibiotics and steroids. ...

Anabolic–androgenic steroids (AAS) are synthetic compounds that are structurally related with testosterone. They promote the development of male secondary sex characteristics and accelerate muscle growth. In the United States, approximately 2.9% of young people have used AAS, and among people who work out in gyms this percentage ranges from 15% to 30%. Similar data have been reported in several...

Pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), also known as preeclampsia, remains one of the leading causes of maternal death worldwide. The term PIH describes the development of hypertension with proteinuria and/or pathological edema after the twentieth week of gestation. Parturients with PIH usually have multiple organ alterations (Table 1). Although the etiology of PIH is unknown, it appears obvious...

______________ _ Extracorporeal circulation has recently expanded outside the realm of the traditional cardiac procedures. Extracorporeal circulation and cardiopulmonary bypass has expanded to include: left and right heart long and short term support, systemic and regional hyperthermic perfusion for cancer therapy, systemic rewarming for hypothermia victims due to exposure, repair of aortic tea...

AIM To describe one case of bilateral Tapia's syndrome in a liver transplanted patient and to review the literature. METHODS We report a case of bilateral Tapia's syndrome in a 50-year-old man with a history of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus child. A liver cirrhosis and a bi-nodular hepatocellular carcinoma, who underwent liver transplantation after general anesthesia unde...

A 31-year-old Native American/ white female with Type 1 diabetes mellitus of 26 years duration enrolled in the international multicenter trial of the Immune Tolerance Network (NS01) to replicate the Edmonton Protocol for islet transplantation. She used oral contraceptives. She had undergone two prior islet transplant procedures complicated by sirolimus induced mucositis, diarrhea, and anemia, t...