Complications, Volume 2, Issue 2

Background: People with spinal cord injury/disorder are at a high risk of pressure injury formation, and, in advanced cases, surgery is mandatory. These patients present specific clinical aspects to consider in order to reduce the risk of complicatio...

Transseptal puncture (TSP) is an essential step for left heart procedures that allows access to the left atrium (LA) through the fossa ovalis (FO) of the interatrial septum (IS). Initially developed for diagnostic purposes, today, it is performed for...

Background: Surgical complications are devastating both for patients and treating surgeons. When complications occur after bariatric procedures, due to specific characteristics of this population, management, although multidisciplinary, should always...

Background/Objectives: Deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap reconstruction is considered the gold standard for autologous breast reconstruction due to its favorable aesthetic results and low donor site morbidity. Nevertheless, it remains a...

Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a prevalent condition worldwide with detrimental effects on patients’ quality of life. Laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy (LSC) has emerged as the gold standard for managing complex and high-grade POP. While anatomical a...

Transcatheter aortic valve embolization is a serious complication of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). We present the case of a patient who required the implantation of three transcatheter aortic self-expandable valves (SEVs) owing to th...

A periprocedural prosthetic valve leak (PVL) after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), a minimally invasive treatment modality for patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis, may entail serious morbidity. Cohorts hospitalized for T...