Vaginal evisceration following hysterectomy occurs predominately in postmenopausal patients. Laparotomic repair is most common. This case of a 17-year-old patient with postcoital vaginal evisceration represents the first reported laparoscopic repair in a premenopausal patient with intact pelvic organs.

The retrospective study was planned to look at the indications of eye enucleations and eviscerations, and comprised all such procedures done at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, from January 2006 to December 2015. Data was collected regarding age at the time of procedure, gender, procedure type, indication for enucleation or evisceration, type of implant if used and complications. Of t...

Spontaneous transvaginal bowel evisceration is a rare surgical emergency with only a few cases reported and particularly postmenopausal, posthysterectomy, multiparous elderly women are considered to be at higher risk for development of bowel evisceration. It is difficult to manage such a patient for any surgeon and poses significant challenges especially intraoperatively. Here, we report a case...

Introduction Gut prolapse through vagina is rare complication with only few cases reported in the literature. This article highlights untrained professionals induced obstetrical trauma as a cause of vaginal evisceration leading to serious but preventable complications. Presentation of Case Case 1: A 27 years old female, P2L0, had full term vaginal delivery of an IUD baby and presented 4 days ...

A ENEWED interest in evisceration, utilizing an intrascleral implant, has been apparent since the fear of sympathetic ophthalmitis has been largely dispelled by the reports of the results of evisceration in over 200 cases by Ruedemann (1958a, b), 190 cases by Poulard (1936), and 188 cases previously reported by Berens, Carter, and Breakey (1956, 1957). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate m...

AIMS To assess the effectiveness of enucleation or evisceration in relieving pain from painful blind eyes. METHODS 24 patients with intractable ocular pain underwent enucleation or evisceration with or without an orbital implant. RESULTS Complete pain relief was achieved in all patients at an average time of 3 months (range 1-15 months). Seven patients required further medical or surgical t...

Large series on radical cystectomy in female are being reported with increasing frequency, but vaginal evisceration does not attract attention as a significant long-term complication. We herein present a case with vaginal evisceration and protrusion of intestinal loops per introitus, 8 months following radical cystectomy.

Endophthalmitis has devastating sequelae resulting in blindness and even loss of eyeball. Although the prognosis of endophthalmitis has much improved with the advances of antibiotics and vitreoretinal surgery, of the number of patients that required evisceration or enucleation is still significant. We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 210 eyes of 210 patients with endophthalmitis andcompar...

PURPOSE To examine implant extrusion rates after evisceration with immediate or delayed implants in patients with culture-proven endophthalmitis. To compare postevisceration and postenucleation pain. METHODS This prospective, nonrandomized interventional case series included four groups of patients: group 1, 25 endophthalmitis patients undergoing evisceration with immediate implants; group 2,...