Previous chemotherapy can cause PONV.

Background: Although the treatment and mechanisms of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) and chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) are similar, the interactions between these 2 morbidities require more research.

Objectives: In our prospective observational study, we investigated whether previous chemotherapy has an effect on PONV in breast cancer surgery.

Material And Methods: One hundred and forty-eight female patients with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I or II, aged 18-65 years and with a scheduled breast cancer surgery were recruited into the study.

The effect of sedation during transoesophageal echocardiography on heart rate variability: a comparison of hypnotic sedation with medical sedation.

Background: There is no ideal sedation technique that can be used during transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE), and the data concerning the effects of available sedation techniques on heart rate variability (HRV) are limited.

Aim: To compare the effects of sedation through hypnotherapy with medical sedation achieved by midazolam on HRV.

Methods: We recruited 76 patients with an indication of TEE; the age range was 18-83 years.

Evaluation of QT and P wave dispersion and mean platelet volume among inflammatory bowel disease patients.

Background: In inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) number of thromboembolic events are increased due to hypercoagulupathy and platelet activation. Increases in mean platelet volume (MPV) can lead to platelet activation, this leads to thromboembolic events and can cause acute coronary syndromes. In IBD patients, QT-dispersion and P-wave dispersion are predictors of ventricular arrhythmias and atrial fibrilation; MPV is accepted as a risk factor for acute coronary syndromes, we aimed at evaluating the correlations of these with the duration of disease, its localization and activity.

Stone formation from intravesical Hem-o-lok clip migration after laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

Intravesical Hem-o-lok clip (HOLC) migration is a rare complication of prostatic surgery. We report two cases of migration of a HOLC into the bladder leading to stone formation. As such, these devices should be used with caution in the region of the vesicourethral anastomosis.

Percutaneous versus transurethral cystolithotripsy.

Purpose: To compare transurethral cystolithotripsy (TUCL) and percutaneous cystolithotripsy (PCCL) modalities performed during simultaneous transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) in patients with prostate hyperplasia and large bladder stones.

Patients And Methods: Sixty-three patients with prostate volume >40 cc and aggregate stone size >2.5 cm were enrolled in the study between August 2003 and February 2007.