Surgical determinants, perioperative course and outcome of a representative patient cohort with acute appendicitis undergoing appendectomy over 3 decades.

Unlabelled: Acute appendicitis, one of the most frequent emergencies in general surgery, has been repeatingly investigated with regard to specific aspects such as medical history, clinical symptoms, the perioperative management and follow up. The aim of the study was to investigate relevant and combined determinants for the perioperative management of acute appendicitis a systematic clinical prospective unicenter observational study was conducted. A representative patient cohort was studied (n=9,991; middle Europe) to reflect daily surgical practice through a time period of 27 years divided into 3 separate periods and the frequency of specific categories (e.

Efficacy and safety profile of dronedarone in clinical practice. Results of the Magdeburg Dronedarone Registry (MADRE study).

Background: Dronedarone is a new antiarrhythmic agent that has only recently been approved for the therapy of atrial fibrillation (AF). Results regarding a broader spectrum of patients and experience accumulated in clinical practice are still very scarce. Therefore, we prospectively investigated the efficacy and tolerance of dronedarone in a real life setting.

Ultrasound guided thrombin injection of pseudoaneurysm of the radial artery after percutaneous coronary intervention.

Thrombin injection is frequently used to occlude iatrogenic pseudoaneurysms in larger vessels, but has never successfully been used in the radial artery location. Here we report the use of this treatment in a patient with radial artery pseudoaneurysm following coronary intervention. After Doppler sonographic visualization of the pseudoaneurysm cavity and its neck, an ultrasound-guided transcutaneous injection of thrombin was carried out.