Convalescent plasma therapy and remdesivir duo successfully salvaged an early liver transplant recipient with severe COVID-19 pneumonia.

The impact and clinical spectrum of COVID-19 infection in liver transplant recipients/solid organ transplants are being unveiled during this recent pandemic. The clinical experience of use of current antiviral drugs and immunomodulators are sparse in solid organ transplantation. We present the clinical course of a 49-year-old male recipient who underwent living donor liver transplant for recurrent gastrointestinal bleed and contracted severe COVID-19 pneumonia during the third postoperative week.

Reverse stress cardiomyopathy post-liver transplant needing mechanical circulatory support.

A 39-year-old female patient with hepatitis B-related decompensated chronic liver disease underwent living donor liver transplantation. Preoperatively, she had a normal electrocardiogram (ECG) and echocardiography, and also a negative dobutamine stress echocardiography test. Intraoperative course went uneventful.

High-dose morphine for intractable phantom limb pain.

Phantom limb pain is difficult to treat as existing therapies have limited effectiveness and what works for one person may not work for another. This makes the fact that research is ongoing and advancing even more important to many people who have this problem. We are reporting a case of intractable phantom limb pain whose pain did not respond to usual line of treatment and only high dose of morphine made the patient totally pain free.

The LMA Fastrach facilitates fibreoptic intubation in oral cancer patients.

Purpose: To compare ease of endotracheal intubation with the Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway (ILMA) tracheal tube (TT; for LMA-Fastrach) and regular PVC TT (Portex) for nasotracheal fibreoptic intubation in oral cancer patients with a difficult airway.

Methods: 40 patients of physical status ASA I-II with a history of previous oral cancer surgery and/or postoperative radiotherapy scheduled for oral cancer surgery were randomly allocated by sealed envelopes to undergo tracheal intubation with either the ILMA TT or a standard TT. Ease of nasal passage of the TT and ease of tracheal intubation over the fibrescope was assessed.

Intravesical lidocaine for formalin-induced suprapubic pain: case report.

This case report describes the management of intravesical formalin induced suprapubic pain using intravesical lidocaine.