Congenital Mullerian abnormalities, particularly the septate uterus, may result in recurrent abortion, premature labor and infertility. The purpose of this study is to report the surgical and reproductive outcome in two groups of patients who underwent hysteroscopic metroplasty (HMP). Between Aug. 1993 and March 1998,76 women underwent HMP in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences' affiliat...

BACKGROUND Limited information exists about the epidemiology and outcome of surgical patients at increased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs), and how intraoperative ventilation was managed in these patients. OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence of surgical patients at increased risk of PPCs, and to compare the intraoperative ventilation management and postoperative outcome...

The anesthetic management of pheochromocytoma is complicated and challenging. However, preoperative pharmacologic preparation has greatly improved perioperative outcome, and modern anesthetic drugs combined with advanced monitoring contribute to intraoperative stability. There is great regional and international variation in which intraoperative anesthetic technique is employed and there are li...

INTRODUCTION Intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG) can be performed in cases of temporal lobe epilepsy due to hippocampal sclerosis (TLE-HS). However, its significance and correlation with surgical outcome are still controversial. OBJECTIVES To analyze the electrophysiological characteristics of temporal lobe structures during ECoG of patients with TLE-HS, with emphasis on the comparison...

BACKGROUND Ischemic optic neuropathy (ION) is a rare but devastating complication of surgery. It has traditionally been associated with intraoperative hypotension in patients with underlying arteriosclerosis. METHODS We present a case of ION following bilateral neck dissections in which there was minimal intraoperative hypotension and preservation of both internal jugular veins. The potential...

purpose : to determine the incidence and determinants of intraoperative complications of cataract surgeries performed in iran during 2000 to 2005 methods : the iranian cataract surgery survey (icss) is a retrospective study in which random sampling was done from selected centers. one week per season between 2000 and 2005 was assigned to each center and records of cataract surgeries performed du...

frozen section and touch imprint cytology are important diagnostic procedures for surgeons during operation and must be accurate if the patient is to receive maximum benefit. to assess the accuracy of intraoperative pathologic consultation including frozen section and touch imprint cytology during a five year period (1995- 2000), a retrospective survey of 1000 consecutive cases of frozen sectio...

To the Editor:—I read with great interest the recent article by Nisanevich et al. suggesting that restricted fluid therapy for intraabdominal surgery reduces postoperative morbidity. My comments focus on the description of the statistical methods and their application to the data. The authors mention the use of both the chi-square test and Fisher exact test for the analysis of categorical data....