Collaborative Development and Implementation of a Hybrid Virtual Surgery Clerkship Curriculum in a Vietnamese Medical School.

Objective: To collaboratively develop a hybrid virtual curriculum for a medical school surgery clerkship within an emerging medical university in Vietnam.

Design: A hybrid virtual surgery clerkship curriculum was collaboratively developed by Vietnamese and American surgeons as part of an international partnership between their respective universities. A set of 25 virtual lectures with associated materials were created and deployed in tandem with live, in-person review and skills sessions.

Current Molecular Therapeutic Agents and Drug Candidates for .

has been recognised as a dreadful respiratory pathogen among the non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) because of misdiagnosis, prolonged therapy with poor treatment outcomes and a high cost. This pathogen also shows extremely high antimicrobial resistance against current antibiotics, including the anti-tuberculosis agents. Therefore, current chemotherapies require a long curative period and the clinical outcomes are not satisfactory.

Single Trocar Thoracoscopic Surgery for Pleural Empyema in Children.

To present outcomes of single trocar thoracoscopic surgery in the treatment of pleural empyema (PE) in children. The thoracoscopic surgery was performed using a single trocar inserted through the fifth intercostal space. A conventional rigid scope with a working channel was used.

Intestinal obstruction by an enterolith from a perforated giant Meckel's diverticulum: diagnosis with CT reconstructed images.

Complications caused by Meckel's enteroliths are very rare. Diagnosis is not usually made before surgery because symptoms are often of little value and imaging may be difficult to interpret. Computed tomography (CT) scanning, which is increasingly performed in emergency situations, could help make the diagnosis.

[Spontaneous splenic rupture during intrasplenic Kaposi's sarcoma in an HIV-positive patient].

Spontaneous splenic rupture is a rare cause of peritoneal bleeding. Etiology is usually infections (viral, bacterial or parasitic) and blood diseases (leukemia, lymphoma, dysglobulinemia). We report the first case of spontaneous splenic rupture secondary to hilar Kaposi's sarcoma in an HIV positive patient.

Diagnosis of bowel and mesenteric injuries in blunt abdominal trauma: a prospective study.

Purpose: Currently, nonoperative management is the procedure of choice for solid organ injury in patients with a blunt abdominal trauma. Missed blunt bowel and mesenteric injuries (BBMIs) are possible because diagnosis is difficult. The aim of our study was to test a new algorithm for BBMI diagnosis using abdominal ultrasonography (AUS), computed tomography (CT), and diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL).

Small-bowel infarction from disseminated aspergillosis.

Introduction: Despite the use of new, effective drugs, the disseminated invasive aspergillosis often remains lethal in neutropenic patients. Diagnosis is difficult because early symptoms are nonspecific. New tools could help in diagnosis and lead to early surgery when needed.

[Early closure of temporary stoma of the small bowel].

Aim: Transient small bowel stoma is usually closed 9-12 weeks after initial operation (late closure). Since these stoma have a poor physiological and psychological impact with frequent social consequences, we wanted to estimate feasibility and results of early closure of small bowel stoma.

Patients And Method: From January 1998 to December 2001, 39 patients (21 women and 18 men, mean age: 64 years) with a transient small bowel stoma were elected for early closure.

[Cystadenoma of the liver with high levels of ACE and CA 19-9 in the cyst].

The development of a cystadenocarcinoma from previously benign cystadenoma is controversial. Neither clinical nor biological factors have been described to explain this transformation. High levels of serum and cystic CEA and CA 19-9 seem to help in the diagnosis of cystadenoma but not cystadenocarcinoma.