Patient's Perception of the Role of Gym Activity in Abdominal Wall Herniation in Adults: A Prospective Study.

Background: Despite significant changes in healthcare, work practices, and leisure activity, the proposed precipitating factors for abdominal wall hernias have remained largely unchanged for almost two centuries. We aimed to investigate if there have been shifts in these factors over time by examining patients' perception of precipitating factors for abdominal wall hernia development. This study was conducted in the Royal College of Surgeons In Ireland Department of Surgery, Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin, where patients with abdominal wall hernias completed a questionnaire  .

Diffuse form of Caroli's disease: therapeutical approach in a female patient with recurrent cholangitis.

A 49-year old female was admitted to the 3rd Surgical Clinic Cluj with clinical signs of cholangitis. She had had these symptoms for 30 years and in 2007 she was diagnosed as suffering from a diffuse form of Caroli's disease. On admission, a biological syndrome of cholestasis was noticed, associated with an inflammatory syndrome and hepatocytolysis.