Abscess

Post-cholecystectomy syndrome is defined as the recurrence of symptoms similar to those experienced before the cholecystectomy. This usually takes the form of upper abdominal pain (mainly right upper quadrant) and dyspepsia, with or without jaundice. It is defined as early if occurring in the post-operative period and late if it manifests after months or years1,2. The incidence of postcholecystectomy syndrome has been reported to be between 5% and 40% in one study, and the onset of symptoms may…

Background: Fistula-in-ano forms a good majority of treatable benign lesions of the rectum and anal canal. 90% or so of these cases are end results of crypto glandular infections. Despite the easy of diagnosis, establishing a cure is problematic on two accounts. Firstly, many patients tend to let their ailment nag them rather than being subject to examination, mostly owing to the site of this disease. The more important second factor is that a significant percent of these diseases persist or…

Definition and Causes of Short Bowel Syndrome The patient in this case study was immunocompromised due to Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS) which predisposed her to discitis infection. SBS is a disorder that hinders the absorption of nutrients and fluids usually after extensive small intestine resection (Tee, Wallis, & Gabe, 2011). An average person’s small intestine is 600cm long (Sundaram, Koutkia, & Apovian, 2002). In SBS, the small bowel has been shortened at least 70 percent (Sundaram et al.,…

inflammation or microperforations. These give access for bacteria from gastrointestinal GI tract invade the colonic wall, resulting in infection with or without abscess formation. Acute diverticulitis can be complicated or uncomplicated. Uncomplicated diverticulitis is characterized by local infection and inflammations. If the localized infection or abscess infiltrates into adjacent organs or viscera, or causes obstruction, it is considered complicated diverticulitis. The typical bacteria…

Chilaiditi’s sign-which is an extremely rare radiographic sign is an incidental radiographic finding of interposition of a colon segment between the liver and the diaphragm. Chilaiditi sign can be initially misdiagnosed as a diaphragmatic hernia or pneumoperitoneum that can need unnecessary surgeries.We report a patient with type-2 diabetes mellitus, who was incidentally diagnosed with Chilaiditi’s sign in order to attract attention to this extremely rare occasion and avoid unnecessary surgery.…

Have you heard about Benjamin Franklin? He is the one that discovered electricity. He is one very important person. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn’t be warm in the winter and we wouldn’t be cooled in the summer. He also invented the lightning bolt, bifocal eyeglasses, and the armonica. He also invented the franklin stove to keep houses warm. Benjamin Franklin was born January 17, 1706 in Boston Massachusetts. His father (Josiah Franklin) had 17 kids. Josiah Franklin had two wives, Abiah Folger…

What Is Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment? What is hyperbaric oxygen therapy? This treatment involves lying into a pure oxygen room or tube for a particular time period. This really is a well-established treatment method for decompression illness. Besides that, a number of different states can also be treated with this approach, for example stubborn effects, radiation injury, and lots of severe ailments, to name a couple. In This process, the air pressure in the room is left up to 300% greater than…

well as delayed treatment. Adae then was admitted to another hospital where no care or diagnosis was done and later discharged a couple days later. Four days later she returned to the last hospital she was discharged from where they later found an abscess causing this symptoms and issues. At this time she had become paralyzed and also, having slurred speech, weakness, renal failure (Crow 2013). Due to the doctors and care team direct negligence Cynthia Adae became paralyzed and went through more…

Haemophilus influenzae is a gram-negative, nonmotile, rod-shaped bacterium that is considered pleomorphic. There are six different identifiable strains of Haemophilus influenzae (type a-f). Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is the most common strain and is responsible for the most cases of serious infection (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010). Haemophilus influenzae type b is transmitted from person-to-person through respiratory droplets and direct contact with respiratory…

Critical-Care Nurses). In that, ventilator associated pneumonia is detrimental to a patient’s health. Amanullah explained that even if ventilator associated pneumonia is successfully treated; patients could develop other potential complications such as an abscess, empyema, superinfection, or another infection (Amanullah, 2015). In a sense, ventilator associated pneumonia can cause array of…