Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate and retropubic prostatic adenomectomy: morbidity analysis and anesthesia considerations.

Objective: Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) is an alternative to prostatic adenomectomy for the surgical treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy. We analyzed our learning curve for this technique, and we compared it in a secondary manner with prostatic adenomectomy.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective comparative study was conducted that included the first 100 cases of HoLEP performed in our center and the latest 50 cases of retropubic adenomectomy.

Efficacy of different doses of sugammadex after continuous infusion of rocuronium.

Aim: To evaluate the effects of two different doses of sugammadex after maintenance anesthesia with sevofluorane and remifentanil and deep rocuronium-induced neuromuscular blockade (NMB).

Methods: Patients between 20 and 65 years of age, with American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification I-II, undergoing gynecological surgery were included in a prospective, comparative and randomized study. NMB was induced with an injection of 0.

[Bilateral and pneumomediastinal pneumothorax after transoral laser microsurgery and tracheotomy].

Transoral laser CO2 microsurgery is becoming an increasing used treatment option for cancer of the larynx and the pharynx. Amongst the advantages it has compared to open surgery and radiotherapy are, it less invasiveness, greater precision, better functional preservation of the organ, and less procedure-associated morbidity. However, this surgical technique is not without its complication, some being rare up until now, but with great clinical importance.