Asian J Surg
August 2019
To identify surgical techniques applied in case of recurrence in patients with pilonidal sinus, who have undergone primary treatment with Limberg flap, and to present our cases treated with Limberg flap reconstruction prepared from the contralateral gluteal region. Nine patients with recurrence out of 219 patients who underwent Limberg flap reconstruction between 2009 and 2016 at our clinics, and 6 patients who have been referred to our clinics with total 15 recurrence after primary Limberg flap reconstruction at other institutes were included in the study. Total excision and primary repair was applied in 3 patients while 2 patients underwent excision with lay open procedures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The aim of this study was to establish the diagnostic value of leucocyte count and neutrophil percentage in both diagnosing simple appendicitis and predicting complicated appendicitis.
Methods: The patients who underwent appendectomy with a clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis (AA) between January 2011 and December 2012 were studied retrospectively. The data of total WBC count, neutrophil ratio, and physical findings were analyzed.
To clarify the effects of long-term ocreotide (a long-acting somatostatin analogue) treatment on mucosal changes in a rat model of portal hypertensive enteropathy, groups of male Swiss albino rats (n=15 each) were randomly assigned to one of three treatment arms. These were: sham laparotomy+twice daily subcutaneous saline 0.5 mL (Group 1); portal hypertension induction+twice daily subcutaneous saline 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUlus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg
October 2007
We report a case with a late diagnosis of posttraumatic lateral abdominal wall hematoma. The patient was admitted with a giant hematoma presenting with pleural effusion, anemia and weight loss on postoperative 30th day after a blunt trauma. Computerized tomography analysis revealed a hematoma extending from axilla to the gluteus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOmental pregnancy is an extremely rare form of abdominal pregnancy. Only 16 cases had been reported in the literature, and most were secondary omental pregnancies. We presented a case of primary omental pregnancy located on "gastrocolic ligament" diagnosed at surgical operation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: To study whether enteral pretreatment with a synbiotic composition of lactic acid bacteria and bioactive fibers can reduce peritonitis-induced lung neutrophil infiltration and tissue injury in rats.
Materials And Methods: Rats were divided into five groups, and subjected to induction of peritonitis-induced lung injury using a cecal ligation and puncture model (CLP). All animals were pretreated for 3 weeks prior the CLP by daily gavage with either (1) a synbiotic composition (10(10) CFU of Pediococcus pentosaceus 5-33:3, 10(10) CFU of Leuconostoc mesenteroides 77:1, 10(10) CFU of L.
Background/aims: In the present era of interventional radiology and liver transplantation, the role of mesocaval shunt surgery for portal hypertension in Budd-Chiari syndrome is reviewed.
Methodology: This study analyzed the management of 35 patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome between June 1994 and June 2004 in our institution. During this 10-year interval, 31 of the 35 patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome underwent shunt procedures and four patients underwent liver transplantation.
The antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APA) is characterized by an increased incidence of venous and arterial thrombosis. APA syndrome has some gastroenterological manifestations such as Budd-Chiari syndrome, hepatic infarction, esophageal necrosis, intestinal ischemia, pancreatitis and colonic ulceration. We report a 34-year-old man with APA syndrome complicated by hepatic venous thrombosis (Budd-Chiari) and colonic ulcers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe limited efficacy of standard medical therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases has resulted in a continuing search for alternative treatments. Growth hormone (GH) has shown to have mutagenic and proliferative effects on intestinal cells. This study was designed to identify the effect of growth hormone on trinitrobenzene slfonic acid-induced colitis (TNBSIC) in rats.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Objectives: Pretransplantation injection of donor lymphohaemopoetic cells via portal venous route has been shown to improve allograft survival in mice. In the present study, the effect of perioperative portal venous administration of donor splenocytes on skin graft survival was investigated in comparison with intravenous administration of spleen cells in Swiss albino rat skin transplant model.
Methods: Using a single-donor survival study, skin allograft recipients received either no treatment, a single transfusion of donor spleen cells via portal vein or a single transfusion of donor splenocytes into vena cava.
Hepatogastroenterology
February 2004
Background: Patients who have undergone pancreaticoduodenectomy because of duodenopancreatic injury are retrospectively evaluated.
Methods: Eight patients have undergone pancreaticoduodenectomy because of trauma in Ege University School of Medicine Department of Surgery. Six of the injuries were penetrating, and two of them were blunt.