INTRODUCTION Worldwide, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and human immunodeficiency virus are major health problems. Healthcare workers are at risk of transmitting blood-borne viruses, and surgeons have a higher risk of exposure to blood and higher rates of percutaneous injury than other healthcare workers. Septoplasty is among the 3 most commonly performed otolaryngological surgeries worl...

OBJECTIVE To review retrospective data of 60 patients who underwent endoscopic septoplasty over a period of two years. METHODS The medical records of 60 patients who underwent endoscopic septoplasty during the period December 2008 and November 2009 at the King Hussein Medical Center (Amman, Jordan) were reviewed for surgical indications, intraoperative technique, findings, and postoperative c...

We report the case of a patient with severe myocardial dysfunction after nasal infiltration of cocaine during septoplasty. Complete recovery of myocardial function was observed in twelve days. Several reports have described chronic cardiomyopathy in long-term cocaine users, but only one case of acute cardiomyopathy. None of these cases were related to the medical use of cocaine.

The objective of this video is to discuss the management excessive bleeding complication during hysteroscopic septoplasty. Our illustrates venous at end septoplasty for partial septate uterus. We highlight use pediatric Foley catheter balloon and diluted vasopressin injection in controlling conclusion Bleeding was controlled by insertion a 10 French filled with 10cc NaCl 0.9% ten minutes additi...

Introduction: Endonasal septoplasty is almost no effect on the tip support mechanism. However, it has the difficulties in exfoliation of muciperichondrial flap and narrow view of the surgical area. Therefore, Author have devised incision method that can more easily exfoliate and more effectively expose the nasal septum that the existing approach method and I am making report of the comparison o...

Septoplasty and turbinoplasty are common ear, nose, throat (ENT) operations which generally have low complication rates. A 45-year-old man had a septoplasty operation and a right turbinoplasty operation under a combined general and local anesthetic. He woke from the procedure with a reduced visual acuity in the right eye and substantial inferior visual field loss. A review of the current litera...