Although most patients experience an uneventful postoperative course, percutaneous treatment of urolithiasis is associated with 20 29 % overall and 4 5.2 % severe complication rates, and occasional fatalities.
There was no significant difference in severe complication rates among different RT techniques.
A decade ago, several studies showed that radiotherapy (RT) in combination with chemotherapy (CT) offers oncologic and functional results similar to those of surgery but with lower severe complication rates [ 1– 3].
41 42 A prospective study (n=1909) reported that a benign hepatopancreatobiliary MDM before endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was associated with improved safety and decreased overall complications compared with control cases (6.9% vs 12.0%, p<0.001) and lower severe complication rates (0.4% vs 2.5%, p=0.035).
In several studies, this treatment has been evaluated as safe and efficient with a technical success rate of 90 100%, a clinical success rate of 67 100%, a rate of severe complications about 7% and non-severe complication rate about 20% [ 2, 6- 47].
For pregnant women, certain infectious diseases, such as influenza and varicella, may have a more severe clinical course, increased complication rate, and higher case-fatality rate.
In-line filtration was effective in reducing the overall complication rate of severe events such as systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), sepsis, thrombosis, and organ failure.
As previously shown, in-line filtration was highly effective in reducing the overall complication rate of severe events (SIRS, sepsis, circulatory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), thrombosis, acute renal and liver failure).
We have previously shown in critically ill children, that particle-retentive in-line filtration reduced the overall complication rate of severe events, length of stay and duration of mechanical ventilation.
