Publications by authors named "Hedi Charrada"
Background: Age is one of the causes behind the undertreatment of elderly colorectal cancer patients. The increase of mortality among elderly colorectal cancer (CRC) patients is due to competing causes of death occurring in the early post operative period. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the risk factors for post operative mortality and morbidity among elderly CRC patients.
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- The study analyzed the impact of the 2007 Tokyo guidelines on the treatment of acute cholecystitis (AC) at a surgical center in Tunisia, comparing data from before and after the guidelines were implemented.
- The results showed that early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ELC) became significantly more common after the guidelines were introduced, with fewer patients needing conversion to open surgery and shorter hospital stays.
- Overall, the guidelines improved the efficacy and safety of AC treatment, highlighting their importance in resource-limited settings like Tunisia.
The erosion of a pancreatic pseudocyst into an adjacent artery is a rare and highly lethal complication of pancreatitis with reported death rates of 12% to 40%. The majority of patients had bleeding from the splenic artery, the gastroduodenal artery and the anterior pacreaticoduodenal artery. Exceptionally, some cases with bleeding from the superior mesenteric artery, or hepatic artery were reported.
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