Complications were one pulmonary embolus during surgery in a child with factor V Leiden mutation and one adhesion ileus three months after Roux-en-Y. Highly selective surgery was curative in all children with invariably stable euglycemia thereafter. Follow-up time is 9,9 months (mean, range 2-...
The characteristics and severity of the autonomic manifestations of spinal cord disorders depend on the time since injury, segmental level, and transverse extension of the lesion.Acute spinal cord lesions result in severe hypotension (neurogenic shock), areflexic bladder with urinary retention, ileus,...
RESULTS: Postoperative complications, including liver abscess, bile leak, wound infection, and ileus were mostly mild, and the patients recovered with conservative therapy. There was no hospital death. The median time to progression (TTP) of all patients was 5.5 months, and only one patient died...
The 2nd infant, born at 38 5/7 weeks gestational age, presented between day 1 and 2 with clinical signs of infection associated with slowly progressive ileus. The chest and abdomen x-ray was mistakenly considered normal. Frank septicemia developed. After reviewing the initial x-ray, ...