One-month recovery profile and prevalence and predictors of quality of recovery after painful day case surgery: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.

Background/objectives: This study aimed to study one-month recovery profile and to identify predictors of Quality of Recovery (QOR) after painful day surgery and investigate the influence of pain therapy on QOR.

Methods/design: This is a secondary analysis of a single-centre, randomised controlled trial of 200 patients undergoing ambulatory haemorrhoid surgery, arthroscopic shoulder or knee surgery, or inguinal hernia repair between January 2016 and March 2017. Primary endpoints were one-month recovery profile and prevalence of poor/good QOR measured by the Functional Recovery Index (FRI), the Global Surgical Recovery index and the EuroQol questionnaire at postoperative day (POD) 1 to 4, 7, 14 and 28.

Hepatic portal venous gas: a warning sign!?

A case of an overwhelming amount of hepatic portal venous gas caused by intestinal ischemia is described.

Extrahepatic bile duct resection in combination with liver resection for hilar cholangiocarcinoma: a report of 42 cases.

From September 1986 until December 2001, 42 patients (20 males and 22 females) underwent a combined extrahepatic bile duct resection (EHBDR) and liver resection (LR) for hilar cholangiocarcinoma (HC). The aim of this study was to analyze patient survival, morbidity, and mortality as well as to seek predictive factors. The 1-, 3-, and 5-year actuarial patient survival was 72%, 37%, and 22%, respectively.

Hyperkalaemia after radiofrequency ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Radiofrequency ablation of liver tumours is a useful therapy for otherwise unresectable tumours. The complication rate is said to be low. In this case report we describe hyperkalaemia after radiofrequency ablation of a hepatocellular carcinoma in a patient with end-stage renal insufficiency.