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BACKGROUND: Postoperative adhesive small bowel obstruction (SBO) is a frequent cause of hospital admission in a surgical department. Emergency surgery is needed in a majority of patients with bowel ischemia or peritonitis; most adhesive SBO can be managed nonoperatively. Many studies have investigated benefits of using oral water-soluble contrast to manage adhesive SBO. Treatment recommendations are still controversial. METHODS: We conducted an observational retrospective monocentric study to test our protocol of management of SBO using Gastrografin® , enrolling 661 patients from January 2008 to December 2021...

This study evaluates the efficacy and safety of oral triiodothyronine on time to extubation for infants less than 5 months undergoing heart surgery in Indonesia, and primarily relates to patients in emerging programs with high malnutrition and mortality. In this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, oral triiodothyronine (T3, Tetronine®) 1 μg/kg-body weight/dose or placebo (saccharum lactis) was administered via nasogastric tube every 6 h for 60 h to treatment group...

INTRODUCTION: Recently, some surgical teams have used a laparoscopic vertical clip gastroplasty to treat morbid obesity. This approach mimics the principle of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, but using a completely reversible mechanism. Displacement of the device has been reported in 7.7% of cases. The manner of its withdrawal has not been described to date. METHODS: A 50-year-old woman with a body mass index (BMI) of 36.3 kg/m2 underwent a laparoscopic calibrated tubular gastroplasty at another hospital with an 38-F orogastric tube by a B-CLAMP® gastric clip on January 11, 2019...

Gastric lactobezoars are a result of the inability to digest milk and mucous. Formulas that contain high casein concentrations, medium triglyceride oils, or high caloric density can increase the risk of bezoar formation by decreasing gastric secretion or delaying gastric emptying. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is used to clear thick mucus secretions and is hypothesized to be effective in the treatment of gastric lactobezoars due to the cleavage of disulfide bonds in mucoproteins. We describe the use of NAC in a 1-month-old full term male (4...

OBJECTIVE: To establish a modified endoscopic Freka Trelumina placement (mEFTP) for modifying or substituting the traditional endoscopic Freka Trelumina placement (EFTP) and to explore the safety and feasibility of mEFTP in patients requiring enteral nutrition and gastrointestinal decompression in general surgery. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was conducted to analyze the clinical data of patients undergoing EFTP or mEFTP at General Surgery Department of 920 Hospital of the Joint Logistics Support Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army from January 2016 to January 2018...

Alternative modes of antiretroviral administration are sought for people with impaired intestinal passage and/or absorption. We present a case of late HIV diagnosis (CD4+ count 160 cells/µL) with gastric outlet obstruction due to stomach adenocarcinoma. Co-morbidities included oesophageal candidiasis, Helicobacter pylori-positive duodenal ulcers and cytomegalovirus duodenitis. The gastric outlet obstruction required total parenteral nutrition and parenteral medication during four weeks of diagnostic work-up leading to pyloric resection...

PURPOSE: Postoperative ileus (POI) is a frequent complication after abdominal surgery; nonetheless, it remains poorly defined. Our aim was to achieve an international consensus among leading colorectal surgeons on definition, prevention, and treatment of POI. METHODS: Thirty-five experts from five continents participated in a three-round Delphi process. Round 1 contained open-ended questions on POI and postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV). Round 2 included closed-ended questions...

BACKGROUND: Severe functional and anatomical defects can be detected after the peripheral nerve injury. Pharmacological approaches are preferred rather than surgical treatment in the treatment of nerve injuries. AIMS: The aim of this study is to perform histopathological, functional and bone densitometry examinations of the effects of sildenafil on nerve regeneration in a rat model of peripheral nerve crush injury. STUDY DESIGN: Animal experiment...

A 54-year-old woman with multiple telangiectatic hepatocellular adenoma without degeneration (>5 cm) underwent laparoscopic right hepatectomy with the hanging maneuver. The patient was installed in the supine position with the legs spread apart. Five trocars were used for the intervention. The liver hanging maneuver was performed up-to-down with a nasogastric tube and no prior mobilization of the right liver. Surgery lasted 270 min with 100 ml of blood loss and 15 min of hepatic pedicle clamping. The patient was discharged on postoperative day 7...

We reported a case of tracheal agenesis (TA) that was diagnosed during surgery. A female infant, weighing 1,104 g, was born at the 29 weeks of gestation. She showed severe respiratory distress without crying. Oxygenation was improved by mask ventilation, but tracheal intubation was very difficult. Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) was suspected because significant amount of air from nasogastric tube was noticed. Physical examination and X-ray findings suggested Gross E type TEF, duodenal atresia and cloaca. On the second day of life, ligation of TEE gastrostomy and colostomy were scheduled...

The knotting of an intragastric tube is a rare complication, and knotting of a feeding jejunostomy tube is rarer, and the removal or replacement of the tube is difficult. There are many reports on the removal of intragastric knotted tubes, but these methods cannot be applied for the removal of knotted feeding jejunostomy tubes, which do not have a natural orifice as large as the mouth to facilitate the introduction of instruments to correct the complication or remove the knotted tube. This is a stressful situation and doctors have to adopt strategies to resolve this problem safely and effectively in the absence of strong evidence-based knowledge...

OBJECTIVES: Our objective is to highlight a few surgical practices that are not based on evidence but are still taught in surgical education, and to assess our experience with these practices. DESIGN: We identified 3 practices (clamping of nasogastric tubes before removal, bowel preparation before elective colon resection, and elective sigmoid colectomy following 2 bouts of diverticulitis), identified the data supporting each practice, and administered a survey to faculty and residents at our institution...

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to establish whether 15-Fr gauge percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes can be safely removed by "cut and push." METHODS: Patients were prospectively recruited who were found to be without significant intestinal dysfunction requiring removal of Freka (Fresenius Kabi) 15-Fr gauge PEG tubes. The PEG tube was cut close to the stoma and the remnant pushed into the gastric lumen with a 14-Fr nasogastric tube. Patients were asked to observe their stool for the remnant...

Nasogastric tube insertion is a routine procedure in medical care. However, misplacement of the tube can cause a variety of complications, which can be life threatening in some instances. We report a case of fatal hemorrhagic shock immediately after nasogastric tube insertion in a patient undergoing debridement by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for mediastinitis. Emergency endoscopy showed that the bleeding came from the nasogastric tube which had perforated the esophagus and possibly tore an intrathoracic large vessel...

AIM: The aim of the study was to describe our experience of total laparoscopic abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. METHODS: Between February 2002 and September 2004, we performed 49 total laparoscopic AAA repair in 45 men and 4 women. Median age was 73 years (range, 46-85 years). Median aneurysm size was 52 mm (range, 30-95 mm). ASA class of patients was II, III and IV in 16, 32 and 1 cases, respectively. We used the laparoscopic transperitoneal left retrocolic approach in 47 patients...

OBJECTIVE: We report the results of a multicenter prospective trial of early enteral trophic feeding in a group of 56 neonates who required abdominal surgery for a variety of congenital anomalies. METHODS: In this clinical study, 33 neonates were fed in the early postoperative period (early enteral nutrition [EEN] group), and the remaining 23 (control [C] group) were fasted until resolution of postoperative ileus. Patients in the EEN group (Kocaeli feeding protocol) received 3 to 5 mL of breast milk every hour through a nasogastric feeding tube, starting a mean of 12 h (8 to 20 h) after surgery...

Strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome may be complicated by paralytic ileus that interferes with the absorption of oral anti-helminthics. We report on the administration of ivermectin as a rectal enema preparation to a renal transplant recipient with Strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome and progressive ileus. Attempts at treatment using nasogastric albendazole and ivermectin were unsuccessful despite clamping the nasogastric tube after drug administration. Ivermectin tablets were ground to a powder, resuspended in a commercially available suspending agent, and administered per rectum...

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a gastrostomy instead of a nasogastric tube following surgery for advanced ovarian cancer. DESIGN: This was a retrospective observational study. SETTING: The study was performed in a university teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Thirty-four women undergoing debulking surgery for ovarian carcinoma participated. METHODS: In order to increase patients' comfort during the first postoperative days we inserted for gastric decompression a transcutaneous instead of a transnasal tube following debulking surgery...

A forty-three-day-old infant was intubated by the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) staff. A nasogastric tube was in place for the duration. The patient's vital signs remained stable during 12 h of positive pressure ventilation. A Broviac catheter placement was scheduled in the NICU. The position of the tracheal tube (TT) was not verified prior to induction of anaesthesia. After the induction, the patient's condition deteriorated. The TT was found to be positioned within the oesophagus. A near catastrophe was successfully averted by discovering the malpositioned TT and replacing it with a properly positioned TT...

PURPOSE: Laparoscopic surgery decreases postoperative pain, shortens hospital stay, and returns patients to full functional status more quickly than open surgery for a variety of surgical procedures. This study was undertaken to evaluate laparoscopic techniques for application to abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. METHODS: Twenty patients who had AAAs that required a tube graft underwent laparoscopically assisted AAA repair. The procedure consisted of transperitoneal laparoscopic dissection of the aneurysm neck and iliac vessels...