Publications by authors named "Eloi Espin-Basany"
Objectives: To assess the prevalence of surgical site infection (SSI) after elective operations for colon and rectal cancer after the application of evidence-based preventive measures and to identify risk factors for SSI.
Design: Prospective, observational, multicenter.
Setting: Tertiary and community public hospitals in Catalonia, Spain.
The most frequent tumors that grow in the retrorectal space are embryological. Their management requires adequate knowledge of the characteristics of these lesions. We present five cases of retrorectal tumors.
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- A 48-year-old man was admitted to the ICU for acute respiratory distress and later developed massive pneumoperitoneum after discharge.
- Despite various tests, the cause of his condition remained unclear, and surgery did not provide a diagnosis.
- This case is notable because pneumoperitoneum often leads to emergency surgery, typically due to perforation, but many instances are idiopathic or non-surgical.
Background: Myasthenia gravis is by far the most common paraneoplastic syndrome of thymomas. There is little information regarding the influence of clinical variables and thymoma-associated factors on biologic development of myasthenia gravis. The aim of the study was to determine independent predictors of clinical outcome in thymoma with myasthenia gravis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objective: Myasthenia Gravis (MG) and Thymoma have different clinical evolutions and survival. There are few studies grying to describe the prognosis factors in patients with both thymoma and MG. We have evaluated all patients with thymoma and associated MG who were treated in our unit in order to identify possible predictors of survival.
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