Publications by authors named "Khalid C Safi"
Objectives: To review the published cases of leiomyosarcoma of the urinary bladder and to report two further cases.
Methods: The databases Pubmed and Hinari were searched using the keywords 'bladder', 'leiomyosarcoma' and 'smooth muscle neoplasm'. The 14 articles identified were reviewed, and we present a further two cases.
Purpose: We evaluated the effect of androgen ablation treatment on laparoscopic radical prostatectomy operative and postoperative parameters.
Materials And Methods: A total of 50 patients (group 1) on neoadjuvant androgen deprivation, followed by laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, were compared to 50 (group 2) without any treatment who were matched for prostate volume, laparoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomy, nerve sparing procedure, surgical access type and pathological stage. We analyzed operative time, blood loss, intraoperative and postoperative complications, catheter time, procedure difficulty as scored by the surgeon and surgical margin status.
Background And Purpose: Vascular injuries are the most common complication of pelvic lymph-node dissection. We report a case of total division of the external iliac artery and its immediate laparoscopic repair.
Methods: A 70-year-old man with a prostatic adenocarcinoma (Gleason Score 6) and serum prostate specific antigen concentration of 20 ng/mL had inadvertent external iliac-artery transection during pelvic lymphnode dissection secondary to the abnormal course and anatomy of the artery.
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluated the outcomes of kidney transplants with 6 antigen HLA mismatches in 33 recipients between 1990 and 2001.
- Despite the high mismatch, one-year patient and graft survival rates were 93.3% and 93.7%, respectively, with 94% of grafts functioning immediately post-transplant.
- Over a mean follow-up of 3.31 years, 30% of grafts were lost, primarily due to patient death with a functioning graft and chronic rejection, but no grafts were lost to acute rejection.