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Being a white male has given me substantial advantage to start with, and I was able to build on that foundation to create a decent life for myself and my family (albeit, one based on patriarchy). This post will be very short because I’m not motivated to put out a regular length b...
During the first 3 months after the transplant, 72 patients developed a bacterial infection (32.6%). Of these, 16 experienced multiple infections (22.2%), with a total of 96 episodes of infection. The maximum number of bacterial infections in 1 patient was 4. The most common focus of infect...
When we were finally called back to a room, his blood sugar was still high, so the doctor ordered fluids to try to get it down, explaining the steroids in combination with water pills for the fluid around the heart drove the sugar up, but the fluids should help get it down. Well, th...
The current central venous catheter has been in place for >13 y without infection or replacement. He developed mild osteopenia but has maintained an active lifestyle without fractures. In the second and third decades of HPN, episodes of hepatic dysfunction occurred, with improvement or resolution ...
Life has a completely new meaning to me now. My daughter, Molly, is my everything and has been the reason I push forward, get up with a smile, and put my grief armour on. You know, the armour that covers your mind and your heart and allows you to get through your day to day ac...
urinary incontinence (UI) during last 3 months, and 64.3% used clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) (68% in males vs 56% in females), while 73%, 57% and 26% of incontinent patients used diaper/pad, medication and condom catheter, respectively, and the use of CIC decreased with time....
These ducts were instantly closed with suture or clips. Liver surface was washed using sterile isotonic. Then, the procedure was repeated until no methylene blue solution was observed on liver surface. 2.4. Intraoperative cholangiography test As explained earlier, a 4-ft cholangiography catheter was ...
We report a case of early HVOO after living donor liver transplantation, which was managed by ectopic placement of foley catheter. Presentation A 51 years old male patient with end stage liver disease received a right hemi-liver graft. On the first postoperative day the patient developed ...
The patient has not yet reported a urinary tract infection episode. This case highlights living donor kidney transplantation-induced recovery of bladder function with careful ureteroneocystostomy, despite the long dialysis history. Keywords: kidney transplantation; long-term dialysis; atrophic bladder 1....