Ureteral identification with indocyanine green in laparoscopic colorectal surgery.

Introduction: Fluorescence-guided surgery has emerged as a complement of traditional laparoscopic surgery with the advantage that is adaptable to existent platforms. The purpose of this article is to describe our technique for ureteral identification with indocyanine green (ICG) during laparoscopic colorectal surgery.

Materials And Surgical Technique: We report a case series of all patients who underwent laparoscopic colorectal surgery and ureteral injection of ICG in a private third level hospital.

Implementation and outcomes of Hugo(TM) RAS System in robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy.

Background: The results and benefits of Robotic-assisted Radical Prostatectomy (RARP) are already established in the literature. However, new robotic platforms have been released recently in the market and their outcomes are still unknown. In this scenario, our objective is to describe our experience implementing the HugoTM RAS robot and report the clinical data of patients who underwent Robotic-assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

[Recommendations for the management of bone demineralization in cystic fibrosis].

A high prevalence of low bone mineralization is documented in adult patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Osteopenia is present in as much as 85% of adult patients and osteoporosis in 13 to 57% of them. In children, studies are discordant probably because of different control database.

[Dantrolene-induced pleurisy: a case report].

We report the case of a patient who developed dantrolene-induced pleurisy. Dantrolene (Dantrium) is a muscle relaxing agent used for the treatment of spastic neurological manifestations which has known liver toxicity. Lung toxicity is rarely reported.

Efficacy of intravenous spiramycin in the treatment of severe Legionnaires' disease.

Spiramycin is a 16-membered macrolide that has been shown in cell and animal models to be active against Legionella spp. The activity of the injectable form of spiramycin was evaluated in the treatment of severe Legionnaires' disease in seven immunocompromised and three previously healthy patients. Seven of the ten patients were cured.