Determining the learning curve for a novel microsurgical procedure using histopathology.

Purpose: Wet laboratories are becoming an increasingly important training tool as part of a push to a proficiency-based training model. We created a microsurgical wet laboratory to investigate the utility of histopathology use in assessing surgical outcomes and determine the learning curve of a novel microsurgical procedure.

Methods: A microsurgical wet laboratory was established using pig eyes to simulate the human cornea.

Sublingual misoprostol for management of empty sac or missed miscarriage: The first two years' experience at a metropolitan Australian hospital.

Background: Misoprostol management of miscarriage is only now becoming widely used in Australia.

Aims: To review the efficacy, safety and the popularity of outpatient sublingual misoprostol in empty sac/missed miscarriage management over its first two years of availability in a metropolitan Australian hospital.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective cohort review was undertaken of women choosing sublingual misoprostol 600 μg (three tablets) × three doses for miscarriage management.

Torsion of intraperitoneal kidney transplant.

Background: Torsion of kidney transplant refers to rotation of the kidney transplant graft around its vascular pedicle resulting in vascular compromise and infarction. It is a rare complication of kidney transplantation associated with a high rate of graft loss. Clinical presentation and diagnostic imaging modalities are non-specific, and surgical exploration is therefore often delayed.

Management of primary symptomatic lymphocele after kidney transplantation: a systematic review.

Background: Management of lymphoceles after kidney transplantation is highly variable. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the different approaches of lymphocele management among kidney transplant recipients.

Methods: MEDLINE and EMBASE were systematically searched for case studies published between 1954 and 2010.