BACKGROUND Perioperative blood transfusion carries numerous potential risks concerning the transmission of infective diseases and immunodepression that can facilitate the occurrence of postoperative infectious complications. Explanation of connections between perioperative blood transfusion and postoperative septic complication worldwide is not well documented. Many studies have described a cor...

CONTEXT Right heart catheterization (RHC) is commonly performed before high-risk noncardiac surgery, but the benefit of this strategy remains unproven. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between use of perioperative RHC and postoperative cardiac complication rates in patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery. DESIGN Prospective, observational cohort study. SETTING Tertiary care tea...

J Neurosurg: Spine / Volume 13 / August 2010 The incidence of complications in spinal surgery remains unclear. Authors of previous reports have surmised that between 10 and 20% of patients undergoing surgical spinal procedures suffer adverse events or complications.29,51,53 Most spinal literature consists of retrospective analyses that are assumed to underestimate the complication incidence. In...

INTRODUCTION Perioperative myocardial infarction adversely affects the prognosis of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft and its diagnosis was hampered by numerous difficulties, because the pathophysiology is different from the traditional instability atherosclerotic and the clinical difficulty to be characterized. OBJECTIVE To identify the frequency of perioperative myocardial in...

Background: In elderly patients with femoral neck fracture, functional recovery is affected largely by preoperative underlying diseases and postoperative complications. The present study was designed to analyze the relationship between preoperative underlying diseases and perioperative complications of surgery for proximal femur fracture. Methods: The study involved 86 patients aged 75 years or...

Stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, with perioperative stroke being an important complication in the practice of anaesthesia. Unfortunately, pharmacological treatment options are very limited and often not applicable in the perioperative period. The notion of applying a subtoxic stimulus prior to an otherwise lethal event is termed preconditioning. The main focus of the articl...

Contact address: Lucian M. Predescu, MD, PhD student “Prof. Dr. C.C. Iliescu” Emergency Institute for Cadiovascular Diseases Fundeni Street, no. 258, sector 2, 022328, Bucharest, Romania. Phone: +40727588031 E-mail: [email protected] INTRODUCTION Perioperative myocardial infarction (PMI) is one of the most important predictors of shortand long-term morbidity and mortality associated with...

Abstract Aim Salvage Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy (sRARP) is a potential treatment option for locally recurrent Prostate Cancer after non-surgical primary treatment. There are minimal data comparing outcomes between propensity-matched salvage and (RARP). We compare perioperative, oncological, functional of sRARP with RARP post-whole focal gland therapy. Method 1:1 comparison 146 from co...

the most common cardiovascular surgery in the world and iran as well, is cabg. one of the most important post-operative complication of this operation, that increase morbidity and mortality, is peri-operative mi. incidence of peri-operative mi in cabg operations is between 2.5 to 5.5%. in this study we determined the prevalence and incremental risk factors of peri-operative mi in 300 consequati...

BACKGROUND Cigarette smoking is known to increase perioperative complication rates, but no study to date has examined its effect specifically in forefoot surgery. The purpose of this study was to determine whether cigarette smoking increased complications after forefoot surgery. METHODS The records of 602 patients who had forefoot surgery between 2008 and 2010, and for whom smoking status was...