Are Football Players More Prone to Muscle Injury after COVID-19 Infection? The "Italian Injury Study" during the Serie a Championship.

Introduction: Football was the first sport to resume competitions after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown and promptly the hypothesis was raised of a potential relationship between the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and musculoskeletal injuries in athletes. This study aimed to confirm the association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and muscle strain injury in a large population of elite football players and to investigate if the COVID-19 severity level could affect the risk of injury.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study involving 15 Italian professional male football teams was performed during the Italian Serie A 2020-2021 season.

Sigmoid intramural hematoma and hemoperitoneum: an early severe complication after stapled hemorrhoidopexy.

Stapled hemorrhoidopexy is a widely used surgical technique for treating hemorrhoids, although severe complications have been reported. The authors report a rare case of extensive ascending intramural hematoma of the sigmoid colon complicating stapled hemorrhoidopexy, with perforation and hemoperitoneum. Diagnosis was established at CT scan and treatment consisted of drainage, suturing, and diverting colostomy.

[Laparoscopic appendicectomy: an 8-year clinical experience].

Background: For more than a century, open appendectomy through a laparotomy has been the golden standard for the surgical removal of the appendix. Nowadays, many surgeons question the utility of laparoscopic surgery to perform appendectomies because it is commonly stated that the appendix can be removed through a small surgical incision carrying a minimal surgical trauma to the patient. Although open appendectomy is really safe, on the other hand it carries a considerable risk of postoperative complications, is associated with postoperative pain and affects patient s normal activity.

[Intestinal infarction. Retrospective clinical study].

Acute mesenteric ischaemia is the result of inadequate blood flow to all or part of the small intestine and the right half of the colon. Irrespective of the cause of the ischaemic insult, the end results are similar, namely, a spectrum of bowel injury ranging from completely reversible alterations of bowel function to transmural haemorrhagic necrosis of the intestinal wall. Depending on the degree of ischaemia and the length of bowel involved, a wide variety of clinical presentations are observed.