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What are your opinions and suggestion about treatment? VAC therapy? Total Parenteral Nutrition? Wait and watch? Planned delayed new laparotomy?
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Nowadays the best practice for grade I and more or less for grade II acute cholecystitis is early laparoscopic surgery, suggested in Tokyo Guidelines. For Grade III cholecystitis of Tokyo...
14 November 2013 3,402 12 View
The initial age of therapy/prophylaxis with cimetidine made possible a dramatic reduction of the issue. Nowadays, starting from two or three years although we have last generation antiulcer drugs...
13 June 2013 5,748 4 View
In those cases, a contrast CT scan seems to be more effective to locate and diagnose the nature of the bleeding. What do you think?
12 April 2013 8,532 2 View
Pure tissue repair? Prosthetic repair? Modern specific device like Ventralex and PVP devices?
08 March 2013 1,255 4 View
BMJ 2012; 344 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e2156 (Published 5 April 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;344:e2156 What do you think about non surgical therapy of acute appendicitis and what's the...
06 January 2013 8,145 8 View
Laparoscopic peritoneal lavage for perforated sigmoid diverticulitis appears to be a potentially effective and more conservative alternative to a Hartmann’s procedure. Although randomized control...
04 January 2013 4,456 21 View
This can to be the reason itself for a surgical procedure in an emergency setting due to gastroenteral bleeding, rectus abdominis hematoma, psoas muscle hematoma, or can complicate the recovery...
29 December 2012 7,965 1 View
Acute cholecystitis in elderly patient is almost always a septic condition that can be life threatening. Patients are generally in poor physical status graded in IV ASA score. What is your...
21 December 2012 8,764 5 View
Placing the device like a "bridge to surgery" has lowered the incidence of colic stomas and eventually improved the results with respect to patients operated on in emergency settings without...
17 December 2012 8,492 4 View
Open abdomen is an effective procedure mandatory in ACS with organ failure. Sometimes during this period, the small bowel develops one or more fistulas. The question is: are fistulas secondary to...
14 December 2012 6,774 18 View