Disease relevance of Decompression, Surgical

• This report describes the successful management of acute suppurative cholangitis by surgical decompression and use of a new aminoglycoside, amikacin [1].
• PURPOSE: To investigate whether the rate of neurologic recovery or the incidence of long-term sequelae differed for children with neuroblastoma (NB) initially treated with chemotherapy versus surgical decompression with laminectomy, we reviewed the Pediatric Oncology Group (POG) experience [2].
• BACKGROUND: We compared the clinical features and outcomes of patients with spinal epidural abscess treated with prolonged parenteral antibiotics alone or combined with computed tomography-guided percutaneous needle aspiration drainage with those of patients undergoing surgical decompression [3].
• We conclude that some patients whose progressive occipital pain is accompanied by a C2 sensory deficit are suffering from entrapment of the C2 root and ganglion amenable to surgical decompression [4].
• Therefore, the acute optic neuropathy complicating the acute retinal necrosis syndrome appears to benefit from prompt recognition and surgical decompression of the intraorbital optic nerve meninges in conjunction with intravenous acyclovir [5].

High impact information on Decompression, Surgical

• This study compared the effects of local steroid injection versus surgical decompression in new-onset CTS of at least 3 months' duration [6].
• At 6 and 12 months, the percentages of responders were 85.5% versus 76.3% (P = 0.163) and 69.9% versus 75.0% (P = 0.488), for local steroid injection and surgical decompression, respectively [6].
• In addition, plasma ACTH, cortisol, and PRL levels were measured hours to days after surgery to investigate immediate alterations in pituitary function following surgical decompression [7].
• Accordingly, we examined injured brain tissue from adult patients (n = 8) that underwent emergent surgical decompression after TBI, for alterations in the inducible 72-kDa heat shock protein (Hsp70), the constitutive 73-kDa heat shock protein (Hsc70), and isoforms of the chaperone cofactor BAG-1 [8].
• During the experimental applications, all received the highest standard of conventional management, including surgical decompression, spinal stabilization (if required), and acute administration of methylprednisolone sodium succinate [9].

Chemical compound and disease context of Decompression, Surgical

• We report a patient in whom tissue plasminogen activator and subsequent intravenous heparin exacerbated bleeding from a disrupted intravenous access site, leading to acute compartment syndrome requiring surgical decompression [10].
• A few recent reports support the use of systemic steroid therapy for herpes zoster oticus; opinions vary regarding the efficacy of surgical decompression for facial paralysis [11].
• Prednisone is the recommended treatment for patients with complete facial paralysis; occasionally, selected patients may require surgical decompression [12].
• In cases of tarsal tunnel syndrome that undergo surgical decompression, the flexor digitorum accessorius longus muscle may be present and may be the cause of the tibial nerve compression [13].
• In conclusion, the current study demonstrates that deltoid paralysis can develop due to CDH or CSR not only C4/5, but also at the levels of C3/4 and C5/6, and that surgical decompression significantly improves the degree of deltoid paralysis due to cervical radiculopathy [14].

Biological context of Decompression, Surgical

• Some children with craniosynostosis demonstrate raised intracranial pressure (ICP), requiring surgical decompression [15].
• Large prolactin-secreting pituitary adenomas with suprasellar extension are often complicated by visual field defects, for which surgical decompression is the accepted treatment [16].
• This report highlights a rare, but eminently treatable condition; the use of MRI Scan as a specific diagnostic tool; and the need for urgent surgical decompression to ensure good recovery of function [17].

Anatomical context of Decompression, Surgical

• The function of thick and thin sensory nerve fibers after surgical decompression in carpal tunnel syndrome were evaluated using quantitative sensory testing (QST) [18].
• CONCLUSION: Buffered prilocaine provided a longer postoperative pain-free period for patients undergoing surgical decompression of the median nerve [19].
• CONCLUSION: The patient with rheumatoid arthritis of the cervical spine could have associated tortuosity of the vertebral artery, mandating a thorough awareness of vascular anatomy before surgical decompression [20].
• We present here our experience with surgical decompression of the facial nerve in a 27-year-old woman with MRS who had sufferent recurrent left-sided facial palsy since the age of four [21].
• Although surgical decompression of the involved spinal cord achieves a good recovery of neurological conditions, one of the most important complaints of patients with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) is disability as a result of spinal immobility [22].

Associations of Decompression, Surgical with chemical compounds

• PGE2 and thromboxane B2 excretion rates increased even further after surgical decompression and gradually normalized during follow-up [23].
• Six patients were treated with surgical decompression, and nine with methylprednisolone i.v. pulses for 2 weeks, followed by oral prednisone for 4 months [24].
• Jaundice associated with polycystic liver disease. Relief by surgical decompression of the cysts [25].
• Surgical decompression and intravenous prednisolone failed to halt his progressive deterioration [26].
• Thirty-seven patients were treated with only radiation therapy and dexamethasone and four also had surgical decompression [27].

Gene context of Decompression, Surgical

• The regularization of the gastric electrical rhythm in our patient after surgical decompression of the celiac axis would support a neurogenic basis for the symptoms associated with MALS [28].
• Review of pathologic specimens at the time of surgical decompression revealed massive amyloid infiltration [29].
• BACKGROUND: Severe pelvic pain secondary to pudendal neuropathy can be treated with repeated local anesthetic nerve blocks or with surgical decompression of the nerve [30].
• However, in patients in whom an increased IAP does not require surgical decompression, the results of this study suggest that externally applied CNAP may be of value [31].
• Surgical decompression of Chiari I malformation for isolated progressive sensorineural hearing loss [32].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Decompression, Surgical

• Combination therapy consisting of radiation, surgical decompression, chemotherapy (BCNU), and prednisone has been employed in the treatment of this patient without significant benefit [33].
• The child developed incapacitating ascites 8 months following surgical decompression and 9 months after the shunt diversion which was found to be caused by CSF dissemination of the glioblastoma via the ventriculoperitoneal shunt [34].
• The clinical and other features are compared and the results of surgical decompression and neurolysis reported in two groups of patients; 65 operations in "classical" CTS and 11 operations in patients on renal dialysis ("dialytic CTS") [35].

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