Is Awareness Enough to Bring Patients to Colorectal Screening?

Background: The aim of the study was to assess the awareness of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients about CRC screening methods and to investigate the relationship between awareness, socio-demographic characteristics and the stage in which patients with CRC are diagnosed.

Methods: The observational cross-sectional study included 275 CRC patients admitted between 2014 and 2016 to two surgical clinics from Tîrgu Mureş, Romania. Study variables were collected via face-to-face interview and from patients' observation sheets.

Crossover iliofemoral bypass graft through tension-free abdominal wall-repair mesh.

Introduction: In vascular surgery the crossover iliofemoral bypass grafting is a well-known surgical technique. In general surgery the repair of an abdominal defect using a Polypropylene mesh is also a standard procedure. A particular technique is defined by the performance of these 2 separate procedures inside a single operation in which the crossover arterial graft is directed from the retroperitoneal space toward the contra-lateral femoral bifurcation through a Polypropylene mesh which closes the musculoaponeurotic layers of the abdominal wall.

Results of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy-5-Year Follow-Up Study in an Eastern European Emerging Bariatric Center.

Introduction: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has gained ground in Eastern Europe in the decade but fewer reports of large series with medium-term follow-up exist. We describe a single-surgeon experience in LSG (the first 101 consecutive cases) in a Balkan emerging bariatric center.

Methods: A prospectively maintained database of the initial 101 consecutive patients submitted to LSG in our clinic between October 2010 and February 2016 was reviewed.

Major vascular injuries complicating knee arthroscopy.

Starting with a case report, we made a detailed review of the literature, with the purpose of identifying and analyzing the type of iatrogenic vascular lesion following knee arthroscopy and the method of vascular repair. A PubMed literature search was undertaken to locate all reported cases of major vascular iatrogenic injuries during arthroscopic knee procedures. We identified 39 papers which report a total of 62 cases of major iatrogenic popliteal lesions after knee arthroscopy, between 1985 and 2014.

Outcomes after transhiatal esophagectomies in an eastern-European low-volume center.

Background: The present study proposes to analyze the results obtained after transhiatal esophagectomies (THE), from the perspective of an Eastern European surgical center with low esophageal resection volume (LV).

Aims: Our analysis, which to the authors' knowledge is the first of its kind in Romania, has the purpose of comparing our results with those obtained in higher or similar volume centers, in order to derive conclusions regarding the quality of therapeutic management for patients diagnosed with esophageal cancer in Romania.

Study Design: Retrospective observational study.

Late hepatic metastasis in the evolution of gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

Gastro-intestinal stromal tumours develop in the digestive tract wall, in the undifferentiated mesenchymal cells with a starting point at the level of the interstitial cells of Cajal. Gastro-intestinal stromal tumours often lead to peritoneal and hepatic metastasis. Assessment of aggressive behavior of GIST is difficult.

Endoscopic ureteral procedures for one-step nephroureterectomy: experience in 100 cases.

Background And Purpose: Nephroureterectomy with perimeatal cystectomy is the gold standard for the treatment of urothelial upper urinary-tract carcinoma (UUTC). Ureteral endoscopic surgery has been proposed as a complementary step in nephroureterectomy, either open or laparoscopic, in order to obviate the low abdominal incision. Our goal was to establish the value of two techniques for endoscopic distal-ureteral management in one-step nephroureterectomy for UUTC.

[Reconstruction of incisional median hernia with retromuscular mesh and hernial sac].

Introduction: one of the most frequent complications of a laparotomy is the development of an incisional hernia. Proper surgical technique can somewhat reduce the incidence, but it still remains a common sequel. Application of prolene mesh for the reconstruction of the abdominal wall with tension-free methods has excellent results.