Robotic Removal of Spilled Gallstones After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Resolving Chronic Abdominal Pain Using New Technology.

Spilled gallstones during laparoscopic cholecystectomy can potentially lead to serious complications in patients. We present a case of a patient with gallstone spillage during cholecystectomy who was found years later to have gallstones stuck in a difficult location, requiring robotic surgery. A robotic approach allows for greater visual angles compared to conventional laparoscopy.

An Ancillary Central Catheter Emergency Support Service Team Staffed by Surgical Personnel Improves Workflow During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Crisis.

. The SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed significant challenges to urban health centers across the United States. Many hospitals are reallocating resources to best handle the influx of critical patients.

Laparoscopy in penetrating abdominal trauma is a safe and effective alternative to laparotomy.

Introduction: Diagnostic laparoscopy (DL) is an increasingly used modality when approaching penetrating abdominal trauma (PAT). Trauma surgeons can utilize this minimally invasive technique to quickly assess for injury in hemodynamically stable patients. DL with a confirmed injury can be repaired through therapeutic laparoscopy (TL) or conversion to exploratory laparotomy (EL).

Importance of the node of Calot in gallbladder neck dissection: an important landmark in the standardized approach to the laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

The current rate of bile duct injury (BDI) after laparoscopic cholecystectomy is 0.4%, which is an unacceptable outcome. Several surgical approaches have been suggested to mitigate the occurrence of this dreaded complication.

A case of fatal fulminant myocarditis presenting as an acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and persistent ventricular tachyarrhythmia associated with influenza A (H1N1) virus in a previously healthy pregnant woman.

Several studies have reported influenza A (H1N1) virus as a cause of fulminant myocarditis. We report the first fatal case of fulminant myocarditis presenting as an acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and ventricular tachyarrhythmia associated with influenza A (H1N1) in a previously healthy pregnant woman. A 38-year-old Asian woman, gravida 3, para 1-0-1-1, presented with flu-like symptoms.

Impaired accessory cell function in a human dendritic cell line after human immunodeficiency virus infection.

We generated human dendritic cell (DC) hybridoma cell lines by fusing HGPRT-deficient promonocytic U937 cells with immature DCs obtained by culturing peripheral blood monocytes with interleukin-4 (IL-4; 1,000 U/ml) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (100 U/ml) for 7 days and mature DCs by treatment with tumor necrosis factor alpha (12.5 microg/ml) for 3 days. Only one fusion with immature DCs was successful and yielded four cell lines--HB-1, HB-2, HB-3, and HB-9--with an overall fusion efficiency of 0.