Efficacy of Oral Nifedipine, Naproxen, or Placebo for Pain Relief During Diagnostic Hysteroscopy in an Office Setting: A Randomized Pilot Study.

Study Objective: To compare nifedipine, naproxen, or placebo for pain relief during diagnostic hysteroscopy.

Design: Double-blind, randomized controlled pilot study.

Setting: University hospital.

A pilot study of the effectiveness of a serious game CliniPup® on perioperative anxiety and pain in children.

Introduction/aim: Children experience important anxiety before surgery. Anxiety and pain are positively correlated. Serious gaming is a non-pharmacological intervention to prepare children and parents for an operation.

Multiple Simple Renal Cysts and Sequential, Rapid Progressive, Aneurysmatic Aortoiliac and Femoral Artery Disease: Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Multiple simple renal cysts have been linked to aortic aneurysm and connective tissue disease by different authors. We present a case of a 64-year-old male patient with multilevel, rapid progressive aneurysmatic disease. Over a period of 11 years, he sequentially developed a symptomatic infrarenal aortic aneurysm of 100 mm, a juxtarenal progression of the aneurysm up to 61 mm, an aneurysm on the descending thoracic aorta of 73 mm, and a common iliac aneurysm of 53 mm.

Paclitaxel-coated versus plain old balloon angioplasty for the treatment of infrainguinal arterial disease in diabetic patients: the Belgian diabetic IN.PACT Trial.

Background: Several trials have shown that drug coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty reduce the rates of restenosis in the femoropopliteal artery. This controlled, prospective, multicenter study was designed to demonstrate the efficacy of DCB to inhibit restenosis of the infrainguinal arteries in an exclusive diabetic population.

Methods: Between 2012 and 2014, 106 diabetic patients with symptomatic peripheral arterial disease (PAD) were enrolled at 11 sites in Belgium, 54 treated with DCB angioplasty and 52 treated with plain old balloon angioplasty (POBA).

Laparoscopic repair of an iatrogenic intrapericardial diaphragmatic hernia using the falciform ligament flap.

Iatrogenic intrapericardial diaphragmatic hernia after creation of a pericardial-peritoneal window is a very rare entity. We present the clinical case of an acute intestinal bowel obstruction due to herniation of small bowel into the pericardial sac. After laparoscopic reduction of the herniated small bowel, the diaphragmatic defect was successfully repaired using the hepatic falciform ligament.