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C Abad

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Acute renal failure in a patient treated by continuous povidone-iodine mediastinal irrigation.

Polyvinylpyrrolidone-iodine (PI) is a widely used antiseptic agent, safe and effective, in the treatment and prophylaxis of wound sepsis. By continuous irrigation it is frequently used to treat suppurative mediastinitis after median sternotomy. We describe a 63 year old woman with a suppurative mediastinitis, treated with continuous PI irrigation who developed an acute oliguric renal failure. The withdrawal of PI was followed by a complete improvement of renal function. Herein we present our case and a review of the literature about the systemic toxicity of PI.

Acute Kidney Injury↗

[Major vascular complications following surgery for a herniated lumbar disk].

Two cases of arterial injury of the iliac arteries during surgery of the lumbar disc are presented. Both patients were successfully operated, in the first case a primary repair was accomplished, the second patient was treated by means of an ileo-femoral bypass graft. A comment of the pathophysiology, diagnostic and surgical management of this unusual complication is presented.

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