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Blood usage among orthopedic patients at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Niger Med J
January 2025
Department of Surgery, Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Background: Blood transfusion holds a significant place in the practice of surgery, including orthopaedic surgeries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the intraoperative use of blood and blood products among orthopaedic patients operated at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital from January 2021 to December 2021, focusing on the demographics of patients, number and type of surgeries needing a blood transfusion, and the number of blood transfusions.
Methodology: A retrospective observational study was carried out at the operating theatre of a referral tertiary hospital using a designed proforma to extract data from the registers of operated orthopaedic patients.
Diabetes mellitus and peripheral artery disease.
Diabetol Int
January 2025
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamada-Oka, Suita City, Osaka 565-0871 Japan.
Atherosclerotic peripheral artery disease (PAD), that is, arteriosclerosis obliterans, is pathologically rooted in atherosclerosis, similar to other cardiovascular diseases. In addition to smoking, hypertension, and dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor. People with diabetes mellitus have an elevated risk of developing PAD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe impact of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors on the incidence, therapy, and outcomes of fournier gangrene: insights from a systematic review of case reports.
Syst Rev
January 2025
Department of Health Sciences, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Background: The clinical characteristics, therapy, and outcome of Fournier Gangrene (FG) in patients using sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) were examined in this systematic review.
Methods: Without a publication year restriction, we searched PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Cochrane. Additionally, we manually searched bibliographies using the terms "Fournier's gangrene" and "SGLT2 inhibitors.
IMPROVEMENT OF LOWER LIMB AMPUTATION PROCEDURE IN PATIENTS WITH CRITICAL LOWER LIMB ISCHAEMIA.
Georgian Med News
November 2024
5Department of Hospital Surgery, Anesthesiology and Reanimatology, Non-Commercial Joint-Stock Company "Semey Medical University" (NCJSC «SMU»), Republic of Kazakhstan.
The relevance of the presented topic lies in the rapid growth of complications from diseases that subsequently lead to limb amputation, as well as the problem of untimely detection of ischemic tissues. The aim of the study is to determine and explain the main progressive methods of surgical treatment of obstructive diseases of vessels of different calibers that lead to circulatory disorders and tissue necrosis. The following research methods were used in the work: statistical method, bibliographic, and bibliosemantic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA novel approach of using transtibial transport (TTT) to manage thromboembolic events following surgical management of necrotizing soft tissue infection: a case report.
Front Med (Lausanne)
January 2025
Department of Hand and Microsurgery, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China.
Necrotising soft tissue infections (NSTIs) are one of the most challenging and severe forms of infections. The prognosis requires accurate and aggressive diagnosis and management. In this case, we present an unexplained case of concurrence of TE events following BKA for the surgical management of NSTI.
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