Treatment For Thrombocytopenia Complicated with Intracranial Venous Sinus Thrombosis and Bleeding with Eltrombopag: A Case Report
1. Abstract A case of primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) was reported, in which a patient developed intracranial venous sinus thrombosis accompanied by subarachnoid hemorrhage during oral administration of 25 mg/d of Eltrombopag. The patient discontinued …
Commentary: Defecation delay in patients after lung tumor surgery: a prospective nested case-control study
This is a brief commentary to our article “Defecation delay in pa tients after lung tumor surgery: a prospective nested case-control study” [1]. The author Chen used to be a resident and rotate in different departments of surgery and find that discomfort related to defecation is quite common in patients receiving various opera tion under general anesthesia. Even operations not associated with gastrointestinal tract like thyroidectomy may develop a need for laxatives though patients recovered quickly after the procedure. However, this problem is usually not fully appreciated and just a few studies focused on it.