INTRODUCTION Compartment syndrome is a serious condition characterized by compartmental pressures within 20 mmHg of diastolic blood pressure, or clinical signs of pain, paresthesia, pallor, and lack of pulses. Often a surgical intervention is necessary. Increased surveillance for compartment syndrome is important when a patient with a bleeding disorder sustains a traumatic injury. CASE REPORT...

OBJECTIVE We report a case of acute lower extremity compartment syndrome that was diagnosed despite continuous regional analgesia with 0.2% ropivacaine via femoral and sciatic nerve catheters. SETTING Academic tertiary care center. STUDY DESIGN Report of a clinical case. SUMMARY A 15-year-old boy with adolescent Blount's disease underwent elective distal femur and proximal tibia osteotomy...

Extensive muscle crush injury culminating in a crush syndrome or traumatic rhabdomyolysis is often lethal unless treated actively on war footing. The causes of death in crush syndrome include hypovolemic shock, hyperkalemia, hypocalcemia, metabolic acidosis, acute myoglobinuric renal failure and the acute muscle – crush compartment syndrome. The literature is divided on the treatment, while som...

In spite of modern advances in medical care, the operative mortality of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm remains high at 40%-50%. Multiple organ failure is one of the reasons for the high mortality rates. An acute increase in intra-abdominal pressure and abdominal compartment syndrome are common causes of multiple organ failure.It is important to prevent abdominal compartment syndrome to impr...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Bariatric surgery has become a common procedure and several complications have been reported. The objective of this report is to present a case of gluteal compartment syndrome that evolved to acute renal failure after bariatric surgery and to discuss the diagnosis, and the prophylactic and therapeutic measures. CASE REPORT A 42 years old male patient, white, with a b...

background: this study sought to access differences in long-term (9 months) outcomes between acute coronary syndrome (acs) patients who undergo early intervention compared to percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) in stable and refractory conditions. methods: data originated from tehran heart center registry- interventional cardiology (thcr-ic) and consisted of 1267 patients divided into two ...

This paper describes how we came to understand the pathophysiology of Volkmann's ischaemic contracture with references to relevant papers in this Journal, and the investigation and management of acute compartment syndrome is briefly discussed.

Abbreviations: ACS: Abdominal Compartment Syndrome; APACHE-II: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II; CT: Computed Tomography; CVVH: Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy; DCO: Damage Control Operation; EVAR: Endovascular Aneurysm Repair; IAH: Intra-abdominal Hypertension; IAP: Intraabdominal Pressure; ICU: Intensive Care Unit; MODS: Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome; rAAA: Rupture...

Today, a wide spectrum of surgical techniques for the treatment patients with refractory persistent venous trophic ulcers lower extremities based on generally accepted standard sare proposed. The main aim therapy is elimination extremity refluxso that solution this problem significantly reduces incidencerate ofrecurrent ulceration in comparison conservative alone. In addition to classical varic...