Since the 1970s, the management of blunt splenic trauma has evolved from almost exclusive surgical management to selective use of nonsurgical management in hemodynamically stable patients. Understanding of the spleen's immunologic importance in protection against overwhelming postsplenectomy infection led to development first of surgical techniques for splenic salvage and later to protocols for...

OBJECTIVE To describe the acute and late complications of organophosphate (OP) poisoning. STUDY DESIGN Case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Medicine Department at Peoples Medical College Hospital, Nawabshah, from June 2008 to December 2009. METHODOLOGY A total of 300 patients with organophosphate poisoning admitted to the Medical ICU were included. Baseline investigations included blo...

PURPOSE To evaluate the indications, the results and the complications seen in the patients submitted to gold weight implantation to correct paralytic lagophthalmos. METHODS Charts of 20 patients with lagophthalmos secondary to facial nerve palsy of diverse etiologies, which were submitted to gold weight implantation in the upper eyelid of the affected side, were retrospectively examined. R...