SUMMARY: Experimental studies devoted to the study of the mechanisms of the pathogenesis of acute peritonitis and the development of new methods of medical and surgical treatment are becoming increasingly relevant. Today, experimental medicine knows many different ways to modeling septic peritonitis and ...
Introduction: The cecum is the first part of the large bowel. Cecectomy is a sufficient treatment for some patients, avoiding overtreatment by ileocolic resection. Purpose:The goal of this study was to review a surgeon's experience with laparoscopic cecectomy and provide a technical video demonstration o...
Introducción. La oclusión intestinal, completa o incompleta, es uno de los cuadros de abdomen agudo más frecuentes. Constituye entre 20 % y 35 % de los ingresos urgentes en las áreas quirúrgicas hospitalarias. Caso clínico. Se presenta el caso de un paciente con antecedente de carci...
BACKGROUND: The treatment of Crohn's disease (CD) is based on medical therapy and surgery is reserved for failure of medical management or complications. AIM: To evaluate endoscopic, clinical, and surgical recurrence of CD after surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In a prospectively maintained database, conse...
Introducción. La esclerosis sistémica es una enfermedad del colágeno de etiología autoinmune, con manifestaciones gastrointestinales hasta en un 90 % de los pacientes. Aunque es infrecuente, se han descrito algunos casos de vólvulos colónicos, pero es extremadamente rara la presentació...
Abstract In the spectrum of patients with intestinal obstruction, volvulus is one of the least frequent etiologies (5-15 %). Synchronous volvulus of two colonic segments in a patient is regarded as rare, with few cases reported in the literature. The present report of synchronous cecal and sigmoid volvul...
Resumo Objetivo: avaliar o efeito da educação aprimorada realizada por enfermeiros no preparo intestinal adequado e na taxa de intubação cecal. Método: estudo prospetivo, quasi-experimental e comparativo com abordagem quantitativa. Os pacientes no grupo de intervenção (n=150) receberam a educa...
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Recent studies have shown that endoscopy fellows can perform colonoscopy effectively and safely. However, little is known about the performance of surgical residents without prior knowledge of endoscopic techniques. OBJECTIVE: To assess whether quality indicators were met at an o...
BACKGROUND: Lignocellulose is considered a renewable organic material, but the industrial production of biofuel from lignocellulose is challenging because of the lack of highly active hydrolytic enzymes. The guts of herbivores contain many symbiotic microorganisms that have evolved to hydrolyze plant lig...
INTRODUCCIÓN: actualmente no se cuenta con experiencia sobre el uso de dexmedetomidina intranasal para procedimientos ginecológicos en el medio. OBJETIVOS: demostrar los efectos del uso intranasal de dexmedetomidina en sedación para procedimientos gineco-obstétricos. MÉTODOS: es un ensayo clínico n...
