Minimally Invasive Surgery in Acute Bowel Obstruction: Should It Become the Standard of Care? A Prospective, Single Center, Observational Study.

: This study was conducted to determine whether a structured clinical pathway can help to safely implement minimally invasive surgery (MIS) as the standard approach in surgery for acute bowel obstruction (ABO). : A prospective analysis was performed on consecutive patients undergoing MIS for ABO at a single center in 2021 and 2022. Prior to the study onset, a structured treatment pathway was defined to apply MIS in all patients.

Teaching residents in emergency surgery for acute bowel obstruction-is supervised surgery safe and feasible? A retrospective single-center analysis from a MIS-specialized hospital.

Objective: Emergency surgery for acute bowel obstruction (ABO) is a common and occasionally technically demanding procedure, requiring both surgical skill and strategic planning. The risk entailed in teaching residents during ABO surgery has not been defined or investigated in detail to date. It is the aim of this study to reveal whether surgery for ABO, performed by resident surgeons under supervision, is safe and feasible.

Simultaneous breast implant infection and acute myocardial infarction-A tricky combination.

We present the case of a 57-year-old woman with a history of breast implants after augmentation mastopexy and persistent breast pain for six months. Despite a previous implant exchange with capsulectomy, the patient experienced a recurrence of symptoms for the last six months with a sudden worsening during the last night. Clinical examination revealed an asymmetry in favour of the left breast, but otherwise no clear evidence of implant-associated complication.

The impact of gender and frailty on the outcome of older patients with functional mitral regurgitation.

Aims: Functional mitral regurgitation (MR) is the second most common valvular heart disease worldwide and is increasing with age. The present study investigates the gender distribution and 1 year prognosis of older patients (≥65 years) with pharmacologically treated MR in a real-world population with moderate to severe functional MR.

Methods And Results: This a single-centre retrospective observational cohort study and included 243 medically treated patients with moderate to severe MR from 2014 to 2020.

Clinical Impact of ACE-I/ARB for Conservatively Treated Patients with Moderate to Severe Mitral Regurgitation: A Single Center Observational Study.

(1) Background: Mitral regurgitation (MR) is associated with increased mortality and frequent hospital admissions. Although mitral valve intervention offers improved clinical outcomes for MR, it is not feasible in many cases. Moreover, conservative therapeutic opportunities remain limited.

Frailty as a predictor of mortality and readmission rate in secondary mitral regurgitation.

Introduction: Selection in patients with functional mitral regurgitation (MR) to identify responders to interventions is challenging. In these patients, frailty might be used as a multidimensional parameter to summarize the resilience to stressors. Our objective was to evaluate frailty as a predictor of outcome in patients with moderate to severe secondary MR.

New dimension of slow food movement using supercritical fluid technology and methods to influence society by effective marketing strategies.

Although slow food movement is a well-known movement nowadays, in order to make it more widespread to the society, necessity to develop and to adapt new techniques has become inevitable for healthier consumption age. For this purpose, possibility of increased usage of healthy foods with addition of natural extracts using new techniques came out from relevant questionaries applied to people of different age groups. In this study, specific properties of supercritical carbon dioxide at distinct temperatures and water in subcritical conditions were used to obtain extracts rich in water-soluble organic compounds.

Results and complications of high dose rate and low dose rate brachytherapy in carcinoma of the cervix: Cerrahpaşa experience.

Purpose: To evaluate the results and complications of treatment with high dose rate (HDR) compared to low dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy in cervical carcinoma.

Methods: Three hundred and seventy patients who were treated with external irradiation and intracavitary brachytherapy and followed for more than 2 years between 1978 and 1998 have been recently updated. The low dose rate group consisted of 77 cases treated between 1978 and 1982 and HDR group consisted of 293 cases treated between 1982 and 1998.

A randomised study of ornidazole as a radiosensitiser in carcinoma of the cervix: long term results.

This paper presents long-term results of a randomised study of ornidazole as a radiosensitiser in locally advanced carcinoma of the cervix. A total of 76 patients were randomised and followed-up with a median of 85 months. All patients were treated with external and intracavitary irradiation.

Postoperative radiotherapy in carcinoma of the cervix: treatment results and prognostic factors.

In order to assess the role of postoperative radiotherapy and prognostic factors, 126 patients who were treated with radiotherapy after surgery for clinical early-stage carcinoma of the cervix were reviewed. All patients received external pelvic radiotherapy and 37 patients were treated with additional vaginal cuff irradiation. The 5-year overall survival, disease-free survival and locoregional control rates were 71.

Attitudes of Czech and Slovak gynecologists toward family planning.

A survey was held among 155 gynecologists of the former Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (CSFR) who visited a national gynecological congress. The sample was fairly comparable to the total group of Czech and Slovak gynecologists concerning sex, age and county. Questions were asked on personal and professional characteristics, experience with the provision of contraception, attitudes toward family planning and knowledge about contraception.

Oral contraception in the former Czech and Slovak Federal Republic: attitudes and use.

This paper presents and discusses data on oral contraception from a national representative survey (n = 1072) on knowledge, attitudes and practice with regard to contraceptive use in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (CSFR). Only 7% of the women at risk of unplanned pregnancy used the pill. The low rate of use seems to be due to the general negative image of oral contraception, reinforced by the experiences of past users and opinions expressed by relative, friends, doctors, and the media.

[Favorable effects of oral steroidal contraceptives].

In addition to preventing pregnancy which in the wider sense of the word implies prevention of all complications of gestation, incl. extrauterine pregnancy, the use of steroid contraceptives has a favourable effect on some other diseases which are not directly associated with gestation. The authors give an account of all diseases where the use of steroid contraceptives may act as a preventive factor as regards the incidence of these disease and/or their intensity.