Performance of European system for cardiac operative risk evaluation in Veterans General Hospital Kaohsiung cardiac surgery.

Background: The European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) model is a widely-used risk prediction algorithm for in-hospital or 30-day mortality in adult cardiac surgery patients. Recent studies indicated that EuroSCORE tends to overpredict mortality. The aim of our study is to evaluate the validity of EuroSCORE in Veterans General Hospital Kaohsiung (VGHKS) cardiac surgery including a number of different surgical and risk subgroups.

Duodenal obstruction after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: a case report.

Gastrointestinal tract complications after abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair are well known. The reported frequency ranges from 6.6% to 21%.