Comparison of short-term outcomes following robotic ventral hernia repair in patients with obesity: a review of 9742 patients from the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative database.

Despite the paucity of evidence on robotic ventral hernia repair (RVHR) in patients with obesity, the robotic platform is being used more frequently in hernia surgery. The impact of obesity on RVHR outcomes has not been thoroughly studied. Obesity is considered a major risk factor for the development of recurrent ventral hernias and postoperative complications; however, we hypothesize that patients undergoing robotic repairs will have similar complication profiles despite their body mass index (BMI).

Atypical presentation of cat scratch disease: Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome with facial nerve paresis.

A 28-year-old man presented to our clinic over the course of 3 weeks with symptoms that progressed from mild headaches to fever, fatigue, myalgia and an enlarged right preauricular lymph node with ipsilateral conjunctivitis and upper eyelid weakness. Our differential included Epstein Barr Virus/Cytomegalovirus mononucleosis, bacterial conjunctivitis and lymphoma. We evaluated with CBC, EBV IgM Ab, lactate dehydrogenase level and a CMV IgG Ab which were all within normal limits.