Critical analysis of thoracotomies performed in the emergency room in 10 years.

Objective: To conduct a critical analysis of thoracotomies performed in the emergency rooms.

Methods: We analyzed mortality rates and survival as outcome variables, mechanism of injury, site of injury and anatomic injury as clinical variables, and gender and age as demographic variables of patients undergoing thoracotomy in the emergency room after traumatic injury.

Results: Of the 105 patients, 89.

Comparative study of polypropylene and aponeurotic slings in the treatment of female urinary incontinence.

Purpose: Female stress urinary incontinence (SUI), the involuntary leakage of urine, is a highly prevalent social and hygiene problem, and various surgical techniques have been developed to correct it. This study used the technique of an aponeurosis sling made from the rectus abdominis muscle as a standard and compared the technique to a sling made with a polypropylene mesh, (Marlex).

Materials And Methods: From 2000 to 2007, 158 women who underwent surgery for SUI with an aponeurosis sling, (average age 55 years), were used as a standard for comparison with 316 women who underwent surgery with a polypropylene sling (average age 55 years).