Perioperatory

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the perioperatory and short-oncological outcomes in 5 cases with CRPC M0 developed after pRT that underwent salvage laparoscopic RP (sLRP) and review the current evidence. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Perioperatory and oncological outcomes were prospectively analyzed. Inclusion criteria were patients that had received pRT and posteriorly presented with CRPC M0 in standard imagines and positron emission tomography MRI coline. Evidence was reviewed in PUBMED database...

Patients with chronic spinal cord injury suffer from a number of pathophysiological alterations that can lead to im-portant morbidity and mortality in the perioperative period. The diaphragmatic pacemaker is a device that enables pulmonary ventilation in patients with high cervical cord injuries and provides them with a better quality of life when compared to mechanical ventilation. We present here the clinical case of a patient with chronic spinal cord injury who used a diaphragmatic pacemaker, and who was scheduled for percutaneous nephrolithotomy and double-J stent implantation...

In the common clinical practice the perioperative risk assessment of an acute surgical patient with advanced chronic comorbidities is carried out independently by surgeon and anesthesiologist, usually in two different steps. While the surgeon evaluates the risk mainly in relation to the surgical outcome, the perioperative risk assessment regarding the weight of the coexisting medical condition on the quality of recovery in the short- mid- and long-term is all about the anesthesiologist evaluation. When frailty and/or comorbidities are so serious that will make surgery seem futile, the patient's assessment on one hand, and the decisions regarding the further clinical waypoint on the other, have to be discussed firstly between surgeons and anesthesiologists before being shared with the patients and their relatives...

The choice of the type of blood pressure monitoring in patients with uncontrolled hypertension varies depending on the patient's risk due to his previous pathology and cardiovascular risk, as well as the risk of the type of surgical intervention. We must assess the possibility of using new non-invasive monitors that allow optimal control of blood pressure continuously and evaluate the usefulness of new hemodynamic índices that are still under study.

OBJECTIVE: To compare peri-operative and mid-term oncological outcomes between Open radical cystectomy (ORC) and Laparoscopic radical cystectomy (LRC). METHODS: A retrospective cohort was assembled, in which 182 patients had been subjected consecutively to Radical Cystectomy (RC) for treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) between 2000 and 2010 in a single center. Two cohorts were included: ORC (n=83) and LRC (n=99). All the RCs were performed by the same surgeon...

Monitoring of the neurocritical in the perioperatory is in constant evolution. There are essentially two ultrasonographic application of neuromonitoring: the diameter of the sheath of the optic nerve and transcranial Doppler. Ultrasound-guided neuromonitoring can detect stenosis or occlusion of intracranial arteries, monitor the evolution of patients with vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage, detect cerebral embolism, evaluate the cerebral collateral system, determine brain death, calculate indirectly Intracranial pressure and cerebral perfusion and helps in clinical decisions and early therapeutic interventions in neurocritical care...

Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is a common valvular lesion which may affect morbidity and mortality. It can be related to an intrinsic abnormality of the tricuspid valve leaflets (organic) or secondary to annular dilatation (functional). Often organic and functional TR coexist in the same patient. A long-standing TR is associated with ascites, congestive hepatopathy, peripheral edema, renal failure, and abdominal fullness which significantly affect the outcome. In particular, the perioperative course may be complicated due to both the presence of comorbidities and the development of a severe postoperative right ventricle (RV) dysfunction...

BACKGROUND: "Big data" refers to large amount of dataset. Those large databases are useful in many areas, including healthcare. The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) and the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) are big databases that were developed in the USA in order to record surgical outcomes. The aim of the present systematic review is to evaluate the type and clinical impact of the information retrieved through NISQP and NIS big database articles focused on laparoscopic colorectal surgery...

Every medical surgical action implies costs. Costs of medical provisions should be translated into tangible, and thus, measurable, benefits for the health status of the patient. Nutritional support therapies might increase the costs of medical provisions, but it is expected their implementation to result in lower morbidity and mortality rates as well as shortening of hospital stay, all of them leading to important savings. It is then required the assimilation of tools for costs analysis for a better management of nutritional support therapies...

BACKGROUND: Perioperatory chemoradiotherapy (CRT) improves local control and survival in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). The objective of the current study was to evaluate the addition of bevacizumab (BEV) to preoperative capecitabine (CAP)-based CRT in LARC, and to explore biomarkers for downstaging. METHODS: Patients (pts) were randomized to receive 5 weeks of radiotherapy 45 Gy/25 fractions with concurrent CAP 825 mg/m(2) twice daily 5 days per week and BEV 5 mg/kg once every 2 weeks (3 doses) (arm A), or the same schedule without BEV (arm B)...

BACKGROUND: Perioperatory chemoradiotherapy (CRT) improves local control and survival in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). The objective of the current study was to evaluate the addition of bevacizumab (BEV) to preoperative capecitabine (CAP)-based CRT in LARC, and to explore biomarkers for downstaging. METHODS: Patients (pts) were randomized to receive 5 weeks of radiotherapy 45 Gy/25 fractions with concurrent CAP 825 mg/m(2) twice daily 5 days per week and BEV 5 mg/kg once every 2 weeks (3 doses) (arm A), or the same schedule without BEV (arm B)...

BACKGROUND: The first reliable statistic data about perioperatory mortality were published in 1841 by the French Joseph-Francois Malgaigne (1806-1863): he referred to a mean mortality of 60% for amputations and this bad result was to be attributed mainly to hospital acquired diseases. The idea of "hospital acquired disease" although vague, included five infective nosologic entities, which at that time were diagnosed more frequently: erysipelas, tetan, pyemia, septicemia, and gangrene...

Intrinsic ureteral endometriosis is a very rare condition. A 41 y. o. woman with right hydroureteronephrosis and other aspecific symptoms came to our attention. The CT scan showed an ureteral obstacle causing the hydroureteronephrosis. She underwent ureterorenoscopy with biopsies of the lesion that did not result to be diriment. Suspecting a ureteral neoplasm, the patient then underwent ureteral resection and ureterocystoneostomy, and the extemporary histological examination resulted as endometriosis. The abdominal exploration showed a parametrial and a peritoneal growth - both compatible with the extemporary histological examination - that were also excised...

PURPOSE: Limited data suggest that second resections for colorectal cancer metastases may improve survival, but no study has compared surgery with chemotherapy in this setting. Therefore, we retrospectively compared the clinical outcome of potentially resectable patients who received a second metastasectomy with those who did not in our single-centre experience. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the clinical records of all patients treated for metastatic colorectal cancer in our centre over a period of 12 years...

Pressure ulcers are an important perioperatory care quality indicator This is a longitudinal case series study, performed with the following objectives: to estimate the incidence of pressure ulcers in patients submitted to medium and large surgeries; rate them according to the stage and location; verify the association with the variables: gender, age, body mass index (BMI), co-morbidities, surgical position, duration of surgery, anesthesia type and use of positioning devices, with presence or absence of pressure ulcers...

OBJECTIVES: Present the clinical signs of bradykinin-mediated angioedema, a disease little known to intensive care anaesthesiologists, and develop their scientific basis with recent data on management in emergency and perioperative care. DATA SOURCES: International recommendations and recent general reviews. Data collection was performed using the Medline database with the keyword: angioedema. STUDY SELECTION AND DATA EXTRACTION: Research studies published during the last 10 years were reviewed...

UNLABELLED: INTRODUCTION. Suitable approach to anterior cranial base is mandatory to get global satisfactory surgical outcomes. In the beginning it depends on the exactly anatomical position into the cranial fossa and tridimensional spread. Surgical approach implies the evaluation of the patient status, reconstructive options and surgical team experience. Subcranial approach is a safe surgical option in the treatment of frontal traumatic pathology. It allows adequate management of frontal sinus and its obliteration with easy radiologic follow-up...

BACKGROUND: Primary adenocarcinomas of the appendix are uncommon, constituting 1% of all colorectal malignancies. Appendiceal malignancies often present atypically, thus creating diagnostic challenges. Although there are many pathology reports of primary cystadenocarcinoma of the appendix, only a limited number of cases have appeared in the radiological or surgical literature. We present a unique case of primary cystadenocarcinoma of the appendix occurring concurrently with adenocarcinoma of the colon, and overview the clinical and therapeutic difficulties posed by this rare entity...

Studies till now conducted about operating rooms' microclimate have been focused mainly on operators' thermal comfort, considering that uneasiness conditions may compromise their working performance. In last years, nevertheless, the anesthesiologic community recalled attention on patients' risks determined by perioperatory variations of normothermia, underlining the necessity of orientating studies to individuate microclimate characteristics act to guarantee thermal comfort of the patient too. Looking at these considerations, a study has been conducted in the operating rooms of the hospital-university Firm and the n...

The management of gastric cancer has been updated by the Grupo Español de Tratamiento de Tumores Digestivos (TTD). A multidisciplinary approach is essential in these patients including a precise diagnosis and staging and correct nutritional evaluation. For resectable disease, surgical resection remains the treatment mainstay and both perioperatory chemotherapy and postoperatory chemo-radiotherapy are considered standard complementary treatments. In advanced disease chemotherapy should always be considered...