The dilemma of choosing obstetrics and anesthesia techniques in a patient with cerebral cavernomatosis: a case report.

This report describes the case of a pregnant woman who arrived for preanesthetic assessment of External Cephalic Version (ECV) for fetus in breech presentation and cesarean section in case of ECV failure. Although the technique seems simple, attempts to rotate the fetus can result in elevated intracranial pressure, which might cause malformation bleeding. The most appropriate anesthetic technique in cases of arteriovenous malformations during C-sections has not been determined.

Cancer surgery: how may anesthesia influence outcome?

Objective: To review the published literature regarding the effects of anesthesia on cancer surgery to prevent tumor cell proliferation/migration or induce apoptosis.

Background: Surgery is the main treatment for potentially curable solid tumors, but most cancer-related deaths in patients who have received previous surgical treatment are caused by metastatic disease. There is increasing evidence that anesthetic technique has the potential to affect long-term outcome after cancer surgery.

Primary NK/T cell lymphoma nasal type of the colon.

Since nasal NK/T-cell lymphoma and NK/T-cell lymphoma nasal type are rare diseases, colonic involvement has seldom been seen. We report a case of a patient with a primary NK/T-cell lymphoma nasal type of the colon. The patient had no history of malignant diseases and was diagnosed after exhaustive study in the context of fever of unknown origin.

[Secondary hemophagocytic syndrome due to recurrent infections in a severely burned patient].

The hemophagocytic syndrome represents an infrequent, occasionally misdiagnosed and usually fatal heterogeneous entity. Infections, drugs, autoimmune diseases and cancer are often triggers of the secondary hemophagocytic syndrome. Its physiopathogenic mechanism is explained by an impaired and inefficacious function of the NK and T cytotoxic cells that leads to an ineffective and uncontrolled immune response, inducing cellular damage, multiorganic failure with macrophage proliferation and hemophagocytosis.