3 results match your criteria: "Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas[Affiliation]"

Background: Endoscopic fundoplication requires accurate evaluation of the gastroesophageal junction (GJ) to determine if hiatal hernia repair is necessary before fundoplication. We compared the endoscopic and laparoscopic evaluations of the GJ.

Methods: A total of 53 patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease underwent a laparoscopic repair of a hiatal defect before endoscopic fundoplication.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Use of appendix for complete transplant ureteral necrosis.

Pediatr Transplant

June 2003

Department of Pediatrics and Surgery, Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas, and St Christopher's Hospital for Children, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, AR, USA.

A 3-yr-old boy with posterior urethral valves underwent cadaveric renal transplant. On the ninth day after transplantation the patient developed a urinary leak, with complete ureteral necrosis. There was insufficient length of undamaged ureter to permit ureteroneocystostomy, unavailability of a native ureter to permit ureteroureterostomy, and an inability to mobilize the transplant kidney or bladder sufficiently to permit direct pyelovesicostomy.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF