Bronchoscopy is a widely used technique for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Though it requires anesthesia, many options are available, depending on the patient's health status, the purpose of the procedure, and the type of bronchoscope used. One such health status is heart failure, a leading cause of death, and a common challenge of anesthesiology.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present a case series of three successfully resected tumors in our center at Al-Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem, Palestine, all of which primarily involved or invaded adjacent structures and needed a multidisciplinary approach to achieve R0 resection. Our first patient is a 42-year-old previously healthy female with intermittent attacks of dull aching abdominal pain. Her tumor was a leiomyosarcoma that involved major vessels and other adjacent vital structures.
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February 2024
Introduction And Importance: Chronic Pancreatitis is an irreversible inflammation of the pancreas that can lead to fibrosis and scar formation. Pseudocysts are a late complication of chronic pancreatitis and abdominal pain is the most common presenting complaint.
Case Presentation: A 48-year-old male who is a known case of chronic pancreatitis presented to our department complaining of abdominal pain for a duration of three weeks.
Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg
July 2023
Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery has grown in popularity in recent years, becoming the treatment of choice for minimally invasive resections of mediastinal lesions. The many advantages of video-assisted thoracic surgery, including decreasing postoperative pain, morbidity and length of hospitalization, have increased its utilization for optimal patient care. In our case, this approach was used on a 55-year-old female patient who presented with a retrotracheal mass protruding through the thoracic inlet.
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