BACKGROUND Pancreatic surgery remains a challenge with considerable morbidity rates. The leading cause of emergency reexploration is early postoperative hemorrhage due to technical failure of hemostasis. Failure of hemostasis is usually tackled without difficulty, except when the bleeding arises from pancreatic anastomosis, since it poses a unique surgical challenge of preserving its integrity ...

INTRODUCTION The «Bogota bag» (BB) is one of the options for contained laparostomy (CL). The aim of this study was to report the procedure associated hospital morbidity (PAHM) in patients undergoing relaparotomy followed by a laparostomy using the BB. MATERIAL AND METHOD Between 2002 and 2008, a prospective series of patients who underwent relaparotomy at the Hospital Hernán Henríquez, Temuco...

BACKGROUND The aim was to investigate the association between colonic ischaemia and intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) after surgery for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (rAAA). METHODS Sigmoid colon perfusion was monitored with an intramucosal pH (pHi) tonometer. Patients with a pHi of 7.1 or less were treated for suspected hypovolaemia with intravenous colloids and colonoscopy. IAP was measur...

BACKGROUND Biliary-enteric anastomosis especially Roux-en Y hepaticojejunostomy is frequently used for biliary diversion in benign biliary strictures. In this study, we present the results of hepaticojejunostomy with external metallic circle. METHODS Hepaticojejunostomy with external metallic circle were performed in eight male Sprague-Dawley rats. At the end of the third month, anastomoses w...

Individuals may perceive themselves as independent and distinct from others or as interdependent and connected to others. Do these differences in self-construal influence entrepreneurial preferences and intentions to start a new business in university students? Few studies have examined the influence of cultural orientations on entrepreneurial intentions at the individual level of analysis. Two...