BACKGROUNDS/AIMS Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become a standard procedure for treatment of benign gallbladder diseases. There has been a small proportion of gallbladder cancer (GBC) which was incidentally found in the gallbladder specimen, and LC has been tried in some patients with faintly suspected GBC. This study intended to analyze the prognosis of patients with pT1b/T2 GBC who hav...

PURPOSE Epilepsy surgery is the most efficacious therapeutic modality for patients with medically refractory focal epilepsies, but surgical failures remain a challenge to the epilepsy treatment team. The aim of present study was to evaluate the postoperative outcome of patients who underwent reoperation after a failed epilepsy surgery on the temporal lobe. METHODS We systematically analyzed t...

Introduction. This study's objective was to identify risk factors associated with reoperation for bleeding following liver transplantation (LTx). Methods. A retrospective study was performed at a single institution between 2001 and 2012. Operative reports were used to identify patients who underwent reoperation for bleeding within 2 weeks following LTx (operations for nonbleeding etiologies wer...

Introduction. The literature on reoperation following pancreaticoduodenectomy is sparse and does not address all concerns. Aim. To analyze the incidence, causes, and outcome of patients undergoing reoperations following pancreaticoduodenectomy. Methods. Retrospective analysis of 520 consecutive patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy from May 1989 to September 2010. Results. 96 patients (18...

SIGNIFICANT clinical improvement after valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis can be anticipated in 70 per cent of group III patients followed 5 years and 52 per cent of those in group IV1 Nevertheless, the first 1,000 patients in our series have been followed from 2 to 9 years, and some degree of deterioration after an initially favorable result was found in 228. Critical scrutiny of the factors in...

FROM JULY 1994 through July 1996, 73 pancreas transplants were performed at the University of Pittsburgh. To avoid the high complication rate related to bladder drainage! and to reduce the rate of reoperation, enteric drainage according to the technique described by Starzl,2 was performed in the majority of patients. Rejection episodes were documented with fine needle aspiration (FNA) of the pa...