Middle lobe torsion (MLT) is an unusual complication in lung surgery that is usually associated with upper lobe lobectomy and rarely develops postlower lobectomy. In the case of MLT, urgent surgical intervention is required to decrease the risk of mortality and morbidity, and diagnosis is challenging due to the nonspecific symptoms of MLT. In this article, we present a case of a recurring lung abscess treated by the right lower lobectomy, complicated by the right MLT and to our knowledge MLT consider rarest complication postright lower lobectomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: During general anaesthesia, endotracheal intubation of patients with pre-eclampsia causes stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system and catecholamine release, which may lead to maternal and neonatal complications.
Objective: To attenuate both the stress response and the haemodynamic response to tracheal intubation in patients with pre-eclampsia.
Design: A randomised, double-blind, controlled study.
Environ Monit Assess
April 2011
The objective of this study was to determine the bacterial contaminations in drinking water in Nyala city, South Darfur, Sudan with special reference to the internally displaced people camps (IDPs). Two hundred and forty water samples from different sites and sources including bore holes, hand pumps, dug wells, water points, water reservoir and household storage containers were collected in 2009. The most probable number method was used to detect and count the total coliform, faecal coliform and faecal enterococci.
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