background: statins (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutarylcoenzyme-a (hmg-coa) reductase inhibitors) decrease cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. this article reviews the role of perioperative statins in non cardiac surgery. methods: a literature review was done on all english published articles till february 2015 about this subject using pubmed. then the reference list of relevant articles was review...

OBJECT Rates of complications associated with the surgical treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) are not clear. Appreciating these risks is important for patient counseling and quality improvement. The authors sought to assess the rates of and risk factors associated with perioperative and delayed complications associated with the surgical treatment of CSM. METHODS Data from the ...

BACKGROUND Surgery is the cornerstone for clinical management of patients with borderline ovarian tumors (BOT). As these patients have an excellent overall prognosis, perioperative morbidity is the critical point for decision making when the treatment strategy is developed and the primary surgical approach is defined. METHODS Clinical and surgical parameters of patients undergoing surgery for...

BACKGROUND The Spetzler-Martin arteriovenous malformation (AVM) grading system has proven to be useful in guiding treatment of cerebral AVMs with craniotomy. It is based on anatomical characteristics each of which makes surgical resection of an AVM more difficult, namely, deep venous drainage, eloquence of surrounding tissue, and large nidus size. A higher score correlates with more complicatio...

PURPOSE Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN) is more challenging with increases in body mass index (BMI). Several recent studies have shown, however, that LRN can be safely performed even in obese patients. The influence of obesity on the perioperative outcomes of LRN has not been well elucidated for large renal tumors (>7 cm), however. We estimated the impact of obesity on LRN for stage T1 a...

BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury (AKI) after cardiac surgery is a major health issue. Lacking effective therapies, risk factor modification may offer a means of preventing this complication. The objective of the present study was to identify and determine the prognostic importance of such risk factors. METHODS AND RESULTS Data from a multicenter cohort of 3500 adult patients who underwent cardi...

Background: Global understanding of surgical outcome is still limited, with data lacking in some areas the world. studies most times are dominated by sourced from high income and developed countries. Aim: This study aimed at evaluating differential outcomes a Health Institution Nigeria, to help understand how patients develop postoperative complications severity such complications. Methods: We ...