[Successful Case of Coil Embolization for Repeated Pulmonary Arterial Bleeding in Postoperative Empyema with Bronchopleural Fistula].

A 78-year-old woman underwent right S6 segmentectomy and upper lobe partial resection for adenocarcinoma. About 11 months after the operation, she was diagnosed as having empyema with bronchopleural fistula and open thoracotomy was performed. From the following day, active hemorrhage from the pulmonary artery into the thoracic cavity(500~800 ml) repeated.

[Analgesic efficacy of transversus abdominis plane block after open abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery].

Background: Ultrasound (US)-guided transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is widely-spread analgesic technique for the patients undergoing abdominal surgery and can be provided safely for the patients receiving anticoagulation therapy. We conducted a retrospective comparative trial of analgesic efficacy between the patient who received US-guided TAP block with postoperative continuous iv-fentanyl infusion (group T) and those who received epidural analgesia (group E).

Methods: Twenty three patients who had undergone abdominal aortic replacement were analyzed retrospectively.

Markedly elevated procalcitonin in early postoperative period in pediatric open heart surgery: a prospective cohort study.

Background: We encountered markedly elevated procalcitonin (PCT) among pediatric patients during the early postoperative period of open heart surgery. The purpose of this study is to investigate what factors are associated with the PCT elevation.

Methods: Fifty-two pediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) were enrolled.