Supplement 2/2018

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE PREDISPOSES TO DEVELOPMENT OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE, BECAUSE OF THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES THAT OCCURS DUE TO AN ABNORMAL STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL HEART, SUCH AS CHRONIC HYPOXIA AND ANOMALIES IN THE RENAL BLOOD FLOW. ALSO, RE NAL FUNCTION IS AFFECTED NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES, BUT ALSO BY THE …

GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA IS FAR TO BE AN EXTREMELY RARE DIAGNOSTIC. IT REPRESENTS THE FIFTH LOCATION IN FREQUENCY ORDER FOR DIGESTIVE TRACT MALIGNANCY. IT IS MORE FREQUENT THAN CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA. WE NOTICED RECENTLY (LAST YEARS) AN INCREASING NUMBER OF GALLBLADDER CARCINOMAS IN OUR CLINIC. MOST OF THEM ARE NOT DIAGNOSED PRE -OPERATIVELY. SOME CASES A…

FOURNIER’S GANGRENE (FG) IS AN ACUTE AND RARE, RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE AND LIFE-THREATENING FASCIITIS OF THE PERINEAL, GENITAL AND PERIANAL REGION WHICH CAN SPREAD TO THE ABDOMINAL WALL AND THIGHS WHICH COMMONLY AFFECTS MEN OVER 50 YEARS OLD. THE MOST FREQUENT RISK FACTORS INVOLVED IN FG PATHOGENESIS ARE: DIABETES MELLITUS (20 -70%) AND CHRONIC ETHANOL…

DESPITE THE MODERN TECHIQUES OF CONSERVATIVE SURGERY AND RADIATION THERAPY, TOTAL LARINGECTOMY REMAINS A CURATIVE AND NECESARY INTERVENTION FOR PATIENTS THAT SUFFER FROM LARYNGEAL CANCER. THESE PATIENTS HAVE A GOOD OVERALL SURVIVAL, BUT THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE CAN BE VERY LOW AS THEY OFTEN HAVE DIFFICULTIES IN COMMUNICATING, SWALLOWING AND SOCIAL REI…

OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA IS A SERIOUS DISEASE THAT OCCURS WHEN A NORMAL PERSONS BREATHING IS INTERRUPTED DURING SLEEP .ALTHOUGH PEOPLE TEND TO DISMISS SLEEP DISORDERS THEIR IMPACT ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE IS IMPORTANT PRODUCING DAYTIME SLEEPINESS, THE INABILITY TO CONCENTRATE AND CAN ULTIMATELY LEAD TO MORE IMPORTANT DISEASES LIKE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE …

WE PRESENT A CASE OF A 62 YEARS OLD MAN, WHO WAS ADMITTED RECENTLY IN OUR SURGICAL CLINIC. HE WAS OPERATED LAPAROSCOPICALLY, APPROXIMATELY 7 MONTHS BEFORE, FOR AN ACUTE CALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS. HE PRESENTED AT EMERGENCY ROOM FOR PERSISTENT RIGHT FLANK ABD OMINAL PAIN AND A PALPABLE MASS AT THE SAME LEVEL. COLONOSCOPY CONFIRMED THE ABDOMINAL ULTRASO…

SURGICAL PATIENT S HAVE AN INCREASED RISK FOR VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM, THE MOST COMMON PREVENTABLE CAUSE OF DEATH IN THIS CATEGORY OF PATIENTS. THROMBOPROPHYLAXIS WITH MECHANICAL METHODS, SUCH AS INTERMITENT PNEUMATIC LEG COMPRESSION AND GRADUATED COMPRESSION STOCKS, AND ANTICOAGULANT AGENTS, SUCH AS UNFRACTIONED HEPARIN AND LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEP…

INTRODUCTION. THE DIVERTICULAR DISEASE REPRESENTS A COMMON PATHOLOGY IN DEVELOPED OR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. FOR ABOUT 80% OF PATIENTS THE DISEASE IS ASYMPTOMATIC (DIVERTICULOSIS), 20% DEVELOPING NON-SPECIFIC DIGESTIVE SYMPTOMS (UNCOMPLICATED SYMPTOMATIC DIVERTICULAR DISEASE) OR CMPLICATIONS, SUCH AS ACUTE DIVERTICULITIS. MATERIAL AND METHOD. THE…

TUBERCULOSIS IS CAUSED BY A BACTERIA CALLED MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS. THESE DESEASE STILL REMAINS A SERIOS HEALT H ISSUE IN UNDEVELOPED COUNTRIES. IT USSUALY AFFECTS THE RESPIRATORY TRACT, BUT ALSO HAVE EXTRAPULMOARY LOCATIONS. FROM THE EXTRAPULMONARY CASES, RENAL TUBERCULOSIS IS FO UND IN 27% OF THE CASES. EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IS USUALY D…

THIS PAPERS AIM IS TO REVIEW AND TO SYNTHETIZE THE OCULAR INVOLVEMENT IN LYMPHOMA BECAUSE THE INCIDENCE OF OCULAR LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASES, ESPECIALLY OCULAR LYMPHOMA, HAS INCREA SED OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS. INSPITE OF THAT, CLASSIFI CATION AND PROPER AND DEFINITIVE TREATMENT ARE STILL CHALLENGING FOR MANY DOCTORS. A GOOD COLLABORATION BETWEEN T…