Effects of Carbon Dioxide Insufflation and Trendelenburg Position on Brain Oxygenation During Laparoscopy in Children.

Purpose: Laparoscopic appendectomy has become more popular compared with the open appendectomy in children, but there are limited data on the effects of pneumoperitoneum and Trendelenburg position on cerebral oxygenation. This study was designed to evaluate the changes in cerebral saturation using near-infrared spectroscope during laparoscopic surgery in children.

Methods: The children underwent laparoscopic (LAP Group, n=22) or open appendectomy (OPEN Group, n=22).

The protective effects of sesamol in a neonatal rat model of necrotizing enterocolitis.

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a severe gastrointestinal inflammatory disease associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Its pathophysiology includes hypoxic-ischemic injury that may be related to oxygen-derived free radical formation. Sesamol is considered to be an antioxidant and free radical scavenger with anti-inflammatory effects.

Amyand's hernia: 11years of experience.

Purpose: Presence of the vermiform appendix in an inguinal hernia sac is known as Amyand's hernia. This may present as a tender inguinal swelling and is often misdiagnosed as irreducible or strangulated hernia.

Methods: Between January 2003 and December 2013 we treated 4498 patients with inguinal hernias and performed 3267 appendectomies.

[Should appendectomy be performed in Amyand's hernia?: two case reports].

The presence of appendix vermiformis in an inguinal hernia sac is called Amyand's hernia. The disease is named after Claudius Amyand, who performed the first documented and successful appendectomy during a hernioplasty in 1975. Finding an appendix within an inguinal hernia is reported at a rate of 0.