Background and Aim: The major concerns related to the Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal (EET) surgery for sellar suprasellar tumors include risks of post-operative Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) leak, leading morbidity at times mortality, due severe meningitis. Time is required develop possible preventive measures that can reduce risk CSF rhinorrhea. present study aimed evaluate effects pre-opera...

OBJECTIVE To provide an evidence-based focused review of aspirin use in the perioperative period along with an in-depth discussion of the considerations and risks associated with its preoperative withdrawal. BACKGROUND For patients with established cardiovascular disease, taking aspirin is considered a critical therapy. The cessation of aspirin can cause a platelet rebound phenomenon and prot...

AIMS The goals of this study were to define the risk factors, characteristics, and chronology of fractures in 5417 revision total hip arthroplasties (THAs). PATIENTS AND METHODS From our hospital's prospectively collected database we identified all patients who had undergone a revision THA between 1969 and 2011 which involved the femoral stem. The patients' medical records and radiographs wer...

Since Price Thomas in Britain, J. Mathey in France, and P. Gebauer in Hawaii showed (194751) that reconstructive bronchoplastic procedures were surgically possible, the operation of lobectomy with sleeve resection of the bronchus has become a standard procedure for those cases of carcinoma of a lobar bronchus which involves, locally, the bronchus to another lobe. Previously a tumour thus sited ...

Background: Perforated appendix in diabetic as well hypertensive patients is associated with elevated risks of postoperative infectious complications such wound infection and intra-abdominal abscess. Objective: To identify better appendectomy procedure for patients. Study Design: Randomized Controlled Trial Place Duration Study: Department Surgery, Unit l, Bahawal Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur f...

BACKGROUND We carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the impact of prophylactic dexamethasone on post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV), post-operative pain, and complications in patients undergoing thyroidectomy. METHODS We searched Pubmed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated the prophylactic effect of dexame...

BACKGROUND There exist few studies that characterize contemporary clinical features and outcomes or risk factors for operative mortality in cardiogenic shock (CS) patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). METHODS AND RESULTS We evaluated data of 708,593 patients with and without CS undergoing CABG enrolled in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Cardiac Database (2002-2...

Since Price Thomas in Britain, J. Mathey in France, and P. Gebauer in Hawaii showed (194751) that reconstructive bronchoplastic procedures were surgically possible, the operation of lobectomy with sleeve resection of the bronchus has become a standard procedure for those cases of carcinoma of a lobar bronchus which involves, locally, the bronchus to another lobe. Previously a tumour thus sited ...