UNLABELLED Surgical wound infection is a serious and potentially catastrophic complication after joint arthroplasty. Urinary tract infection is a common infection that creates a potential reservoir of resistant pathogens and increases patient morbidity. We asked whether treated preoperative and postoperative urinary tract infections are risk factors for deep joint infection. We examined the med...

PURPOSE Thyroglossal duct cysts (TGDC) are the most common head and neck congenital anomalies in children and often present as infected neck masses. The authors reviewed their experience with TGDC to determine if preoperative infection was related to postoperative complications, including recurrence and postoperative infection. METHODS The medical records of 99 patients undergoing excision of...

Introduction and Objective. The Nuss procedure is widely used in the treatment of pectus excavatum worldwide. Postoperative pectus bar infection is one of the most serious complications associated with this procedure. Therefore, early detection of signs of implant infection is very important. However, this is difficult, and effective methods have yet to be established. Methods. We use a handhel...

STUDY DESIGN This is a multivariate analysis of a prospectively collected database. OBJECTIVE To determine preoperative, intraoperative, and patient characteristics that contribute to an increased risk of postoperative wound infection in patients undergoing spinal surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Current literature sites a postoperative infection rate of approximately 4%; however, few ha...

AIM To assess whether preoperative statin therapy is associated with the risk of postoperative infection in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. METHODS 520 patients undergoing cardiac surgery in 2010 were retrospectively examined. Data regarding statin and antibiotic use prior to and after surgery were available from the hospital pharmacy information system. Cultures and clinical data of pat...

we evaluated the clinical experience of 120 women with early stage cervical cancer who underwent radical hysterectomy combined with pelvic lymphadenectomy (class iii rutledge) in our gynecologic oncology clinic. of these, 74 patient. (61.66%) were in stage i and 46 patients (38.34%) were in stage ii a. intraoperation complications comprised of great vessel injuries encountered in 4 (3.3%) patie...

A randomized controlled trial was conducted among a potential high-risk group of 1,343 adolescents from low-income areas in The Netherlands to test the effectiveness of the depression prevention program Op Volle Kracht (OVK) as provided by teachers in a school setting. The results showed no main effect of the program on depressive symptoms at one-year follow-up. A moderation effect was found fo...

Background Postoperative pyoderma gangrenosum (PPG) is a rare inflammatory skin disease of unknown etiology characterized by blistering and ulcerative lesions in postoperative wounds. Untreated (PG) potentially life-threatening; therefore, immediate appropriate treatment essential. Although PPG surgical site infection (SSI) present similar clinical findings, they should be differentiated becaus...

Objectives: To investigate the perioperative application of probiotics on postoperative infectious

Postoperative soft tissue infection may predispose to failure of open lacrimal surgical procedures. Using a retrospective analysis of 413 cases, the failure rates for primary and repeat surgery were 12.0% and 8.9% respectively (0.25 < p < 0.5). Postoperative soft tissue infection is associated with an increased risk of failure (p < 0.005); antibiotics decrease the rate of postoperative infectio...