Application and validation of a surgical risk calculator in a liver surgery cohort of patients in Veracruz, Mexico.

Objective: Multiple models have tried to predict the morbidity and mortality of liver resections (HR). This study aims to determine the efficacy and validity of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) surgical risk calculator in a cohort of patients undergoing HR in Veracruz, Mexico.

Material And Methods: Retrospective analysis of patients undergoing HR between 2005 and 2019.

Liver resection morbidity, mortality, and risk factors at the departments of hepatobiliary surgery in Veracruz, Mexico.

Introduction: Liver resection has been associated with high morbidity and mortality, and the most serious complication is liver failure. Patient evaluation is limited to risk scales. The 50-50 criteria and bilirubin peak>7mg/dl have been used as mortality predictors.

[Surgical treatment of liver haemangiomas in a third level hospital in south-east Mexico].

Background: Liver haemangiomas are the most common benign tumours, commonly presented in women and considered giant when their diameter surpasses 4cm. They are mostly asymptomatic and incidental findings. They manifest with abdominal pain and mass effect.

Caecum lipoma: a rare cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding.

Gastrointestinal bleeding caused by benign tumours of the colon is rare. A 70-year-old woman with a significant medical history of diabetes, hypertension and ischaemic heart disease was presented in consultation with marked anaemia secondary to lower gastrointestinal bleeding with a right colonic tumour found by CT. The patient underwent a right colectomy without complications.