Introduction: Inorganic mercury intoxication is rare and usually the result of occupational exposure, suicide attempt or accident. This article presents the case of acute poisoning due to peritoneal lavage with mercury bichloride. Case report: A 30 year old woman was operated in order to remove a teratoma from her right ovary. On the second postoperative day she presented ileus, renal failure a...

BACKGROUND Several risk factors for complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy have been reported. However, the impact of intraoperative bacterial contamination on surgical outcome after pancreaticoduodenectomy has not been examined in depth. METHODS This retrospective study included patients who underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy and peritoneal lavage using 7000 ml saline between July 2012 a...

Isolated rupture of the infrarenal segment of the inferior vena cava due to blunt trauma is relatively rare. It may be missed clinically and even diagnostic peritoneal lavage may prove negative. The mainstay of diagnosis remains a high degree of clinical suspicion together with sectional imaging. If the patient is haemodynamically stable after initial resuscitation and there is no other indicat...

In the present study, we investigated longitudinal changes in peritoneal function, as calculated by the personal dialysis capacity (PDC) test, after patient withdrawal from 17 years of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). In July 1982, a 42-year-old female was started on CAPD because of chronic renal failure. She performed CAPD without any trouble for 17 years. In July 1999, hemodi...

A 4-year-old, female cocker spaniel was presented for investigation of acute onset vomiting and lethargy. Pyrexia, abdominal discomfort marked distension were detected during clinical examination. Clinicopathological findings revealed mild neutrophilia with band neutrophils. Biochemistry showed a hyperalbuminemia (40 g/L; reference: 23–35) elevation alanine aminotransferase (165 U/L; 0–110). co...

Peritoneal carcinomatosis from gastric cancer is considered a fatal disease with limited treatment options. Recent advances in the understanding of the disease process, systemic chemotherapy, and application of cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic chemoperfusion have shown promising results in the management of this difficult disease. Novel therapies such as extensive intraperitoneal lavage a...

The spleen is an important organ in the body’s immune system. It is the most frequently injured organ in blunt abdominal trauma. Over the past several decades, diagnosis and management of splenic trauma has been evolved. Focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) examination has replaced diagnostic peritoneal lavage as diagnostic modality. In our study we have focused to manage patien...

the use of flow cytometry in the clinical laboratory has grown substantially in the past decade. flow cytometric analysis provides a rapid qualitative and quantitative description of multiple characteristics of individual cells. for example, it is possible to detect the cell size and granularity, aspects of dna and rna content and the presence of cell surface and nuclear markers which are used ...