Objective: Our aim is to determine the average intraoperative blood loss in patients who underwent pre-operative spinal tumour embolisation in PPUKM from 2010 until 2016 and to compare with other centres from literature review.Material And Methodology: 15 patients in PPUKM with spinal tumour and spinal metastatic disease underwent pre-operative embolisation before palliative spinal surgery between 2010 and 2016 in PPUKM. Intraoperative blood loss during palliative spinal surgery was documented obtaining the average and median blood loss. Secondary analyses were made on the amount of intraoperative blood loss in comparison to the embolisation materials, degree of embolisation completion, primary malignancy, level of spinal metastatic involvement and total operating time.Result: The average and median intraoperative blood loss during palliative spinal surgery were 1480mls and 1000mls respectively, which is comparable with other centre from literature review. Significant difference is noted in intraoperative blood loss between the different embolisation materials used (P
Background : The clot burden score (CBS) is a scoring system used in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) to predict patient outcome and guide treatment decision. However, CBS is not routinely practiced in many institutions. This study aimed to investigate the feasibility of CBS as a relevant predictor of good clinical outcome in AIS cases.Methods: A retrospective data collection and review of AIS patients in a teaching hospital was done from June 2010 until June 2015. Patients were selected following the inclusion and exclusion criteria. These patients were followed up after 90 days of discharge. The Modified Rankin scale (mRS) was used to assess their outcome (functional status). Linear regression Spearman Rank correlation was performed between the CBS and mRS. The quality performance of the correlations was evaluated using Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves.Results: A total of 89 patients with AIS were analysed, 67.4% (n=60) male and 32.6% (n=29) female. Twenty-nine (29) patients (33.7%) had a CBS ≥6, 6 patients (6.7%) had CBS
In this article, we evaluate the effectiveness of Cone Beam Computed Tomography, through a case study, in assessing the complication of intracranial bleeding during an endovascular treatment of brain arteriovenous malformation when compared to Multislice-Detector Computed Tomography performed immediately after the procedure. The image quality of Cone Beam Computed Tomography has enough diagnostic value in differentiating between haemorrhage, embolic materials and the arteriovenous malformation nidus to facilitate physicians to decide for further management of the patient.
Herein is a case report of a 70 years old man with a tenacious benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The aim of this manuscript is to briefly discuss the usage and advantage of EmbozeneTM Microsphere in embolization of the pros- tate arteries in the treatment of failed medical and surgical therapy for BPH.