Predictive factors of nebulized morphine failure in North-African patients with chest trauma: a prospective pilot study.

Objective: To determine the predictive factors of nebulized morphine (nMOR) failure in patients with chest trauma.

Research Design And Methods: This was an interventional clinical study. Patients admitted with isolated chest trauma with a pain visual analog score > 4 were included.

Refeeding syndrome after radical cystoprostatectomy: A case report.

Described as a potentially lethal condition that occurs in undernourished patients, refeeding syndrome (RFD) is a severe electrolyte disturbance that includes low intracellular serum concentrations of phosphor, magnesium and potassium in patients undergoing inappropriate oral or parenteral renutrition. We report a case of RFD in a 50-year-old male patient that occurs 22 days after a radical cystoprostatectomy. The patient was anorexic after the surgery, the body mass index decreased to 12,36 kg/m.

[Lichtenstein versus Lichtenstein plus plug in prosthetic inguinal hernia repair: preliminary results of a prospective randomized controlled trial].

Background: Mesh- based hernioplasties became the reference in inguinal hernia repair.

Aim: To evaluate the results of combining a conic Plug to the Lichtenstein Mesh for inguinal hernia repair.

Methods: Between January 2007 and January 2009 we included 50 patients with primary or recurrent inguinal hernia in a prospective comparative randomized controlled trial.