Acute limb arterial occlusion has great clinical significance due to its high mortality and complication rates. Its diagnosis is easy; however staging after long-term occlusions can be very difficult with lack of exact ...

Introduction: Due to the limited number of cadaver donors, adult living liver donor transplantation became an alternative for liver transplantation. During living liver donor transplantation, the safety and uncomplicated ...

Introduction: Complications caused by lost gallstones within the abdominal cavity are well known. Abscesses, perforation of the gastro-intestinal tract were all described in the literature, but gallstones were found in ...

INTRODUCTION: Temporary occlusion of the hepatoduodenal ligament leads to an ischemic-reperfusion (IR) injury in the liver. Levosimendan is a new positive inotropic drug, which induces preconditioning-like adaptive mechanisms ...

The most severe complication of ischemia-reperfusion injury following lower limb arterial surgery is reperfusion syndrome. Therefore, our aim was to describe the extent of muscle damage and the reperfusion syndrome-related ...

BACKGROUND: Ischemia-reperfusion (IR)-induced injury is a frequent sequel of major liver resections. IR injury after prolonged surgical interventions could be the source of increased risk of postoperative morbidity and ...