Cornual Ectopic Pregnancy Complicated by Infected Hematoma.

Cornual ectopic pregnancies are rarely encountered in clinical practice. A diagnostic and therapeutic challenge, complications include hemorrhage and the presence of persistently elevated serum beta-hCG requiring administration of methotrexate. In this case, we present a patient whose postoperative course was complicated by an infected hematoma that responded to conservative management.

Analgesia and pulmonary function after lung surgery: is a single intercostal nerve block plus patient-controlled intravenous morphine as effective as patient-controlled epidural anaesthesia? A randomized non-inferiority clinical trial.

Background: Thoracic epidural anaesthesia (EDA) is regarded as the 'gold standard' for postoperative pain control and restoration of pulmonary function after lung surgery. Easier, less time-consuming, and, perhaps, safer is intercostal nerve block performed under direct vision by the surgeon before closure of the thoracotomy combined with postoperative i.v.

Factors affecting the relative importance of amine oxidases and monooxygenases in the in vivo metabolism of xenobiotic amines in humans.

The monooxygenases and the amine oxidases (AOs) are the major enzyme systems involved in vivo in the oxidative metabolism of xenobiotic amines in humans. With the exception of the inhibition of the metabolism of tyramine ingested by subjects taking inhibitors of MAO-A or of both MAO-A and -B, which has been extensively investigated, the involvement of the monoamine oxidases in xenobiotic amine metabolism (drugs in particular) has been largely neglected. Furthermore, with the exception of amlodipine, there have been essentially no studies on the metabolism of drug amines by amine oxidases such as SSAOs and PAOs in humans.