Caregivers' absence from work before and after tonsil surgery in children with sleep-disordered breathing.

Purpose: Sleep-disordered breathing, SDB, in children is associated with morbidity that can result in caregivers having to stay at home from work. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the number of days when caregivers are reimbursed, temporary parental benefit (TPB) to stay at home from work to care for their sick child is increased among children with SDB before and after tonsil surgery.

Methods: This is a retrospective, cross-sectional study of children (n = 440), aged 2-11 years, that underwent tonsil surgery for SDB in day surgery at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in 2014 and 2015.

Major ischaemic stroke caused by an air embolism from a ruptured giant pulmonary bulla.

We report an extremely rare complication of a major ischaemic cerebral event caused by an air embolism due to spontaneous rupture of a giant pulmonary bulla that occurred during an airline flight. Shortly after take-off, the patient experienced sudden right-sided hemiplegia and dyspnoea. Following an emergency landing in Reykjavik, a CT scan of the brain showed minute air bubbles consistent with air emboli within the left-sided intracerebral arteries, and MRI showed signs of acute ischaemic cerebral infarction in the left hemisphere.

[Surgical outcome of mitral valve repair in Iceland 2001-2012].

Objectives: To review, for the first time, the outcome of mitral valve repair operations in Iceland.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of all mitral valve repair patients (average age 64 yrs, 74% males) operated in Iceland 2001-2012. All 125 patients had mitral regurgitation; either due to degenerative disease (56%) or functional regurgitation (44%).