Verticalization Therapy for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Patients Receiving Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

Persistent hypoxemia during veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) for supporting acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients is a clinical challenge for intensive care medical providers. Prone positioning is an effective strategy to treat persistent hypoxemia; however, placing a patient in a prone position is resource intensive with significant risks to the patient. We present a patient with severe ARDS receiving VV-ECMO who underwent verticalization therapy and subsequently recovered pulmonary function.

Role of TachoSil® in distal pancreatectomy: a single center experience.

Aim: Distal pancreatectomies (DP) are associated with high risk of postoperative complications, and in many series higher morbidity rate than duodenopancreatectomies has been reported. To evaluate the role of a collagen sponge with human fibrinogen and thrombin film (TachoSil®) in limiting the incidence of complications after DP.

Methods: From 1996 to 2013, 221 patients have been submitted to distal pancreatectomy (± splenectomy) in our Division.

Bone metastases in gastric cancer follow a RANKL-independent mechanism.

Gastric cancer is one of the most common and lethal malignancies worldwide. Bone metastases in gastric cancer are less common than in other solid tumors, but when they occur the prognosis is generally poor. Increased osteoclastogenesis and osteoclast activity are common features in bone metastases caused by different osteotropic cancer.

Anal transitional zone adenocarcinoma following restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis: case report and review of literature.

Conservative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) has become the intervention of choice for severe ulcerative colitis (UC) requiring surgery. Sporadically, the occurrence of carcinoma arising in or near the ileo-anal pouch after IPAA for UC has been reported. This issue is of utmost importance as an endoscopic follow-up is mandatory also after the operation.