Predicting acute kidney injury: current status and future challenges

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is characterized by an acute decline in renal function and is associated to increased mortality rate, hospitalization time, and total health-related costs. The severity of this ‘fearsome’ clinical complication might depend on, or even be worsened by, the late detection of AKI, when the diagnosis is based on the elevation of serum creatinine (SCr). For these reasons…

Color Doppler Ultrasonography for Monitoring a Free Flap Anastomosis During a…

During a Head and Neck surgical training camp in Malindi, Kenya, a 25-year-old male with a large mandibular ameloblastoma was evaluated for surgery given persistent growth and deformity secondary to his lesion. The patient underwent oral cavity composite resection and reconstruction with a fibular free flap. On the evening of postoperative day 1, there was concern for venous congestion of the f…

Laryngeal Liposuction

Soft tissue augmentation utilizing filler material has been used since 1893, with the German surgeon Gustov Neuber performing the first documented autologous fat transfer for correction of a facial defect.1 Since that time, numerous filler materials have been used. Today, products used in vocal fold injection include relatively long-lasting solutions including not only autologous fat but als…

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