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Background: Midline ventral hernia is a common complication of abdominal surgeries. Laparoscopic mesh hernioplasty is novel method of hernia repair but has many complications. Venous thromboembolic complications are one of them.Methods: A prospective observational study in patients with midline ventral hernia was carried out. Based on the size of defect patients were divided into two groups (consisting 60 patients each). Group A with hernia defect size of less than 6cm and group B with more than 6 cm. Group A patients underwent intraperitoneal onlay mesh plus repair and group B patients underwent endoscopic components separation technique with intraperitoneal onlay mesh repair. Each patient was followed up at day 5 and day 30 postoperatively and Well’s score was calculated. The patients with ‘Likely’ score were taken for Doppler ultrasonography. The patients with ‘Unlikely’ score were further evaluated with D-Dimer study. Patients with raised value of D-Dimer were taken for Doppler ultrasonography.Results: Well’s score on post-operative day 1 and 5 did not show any statistical significance between both groups (p

Primary adenocarcinoma of duodenum is a very rare and aggressive malignancy, found in middle or elderly age group and usually arising in the second portion of the duodenum, followed by third or fourth. Cancers of the first portion of the duodenum, especially the duodenal bulb are extremely rare. The causative factors for duodenal adenocarcinoma are dietary factors, ingestion of alcohol, coffee and use of tobacco. It may occur from duodenal polyps present in familial polyposis or may be associated. In young age it is associated with polyposis syndromes or with Crohn’s disease affecting small bowel. Very few reports discuss the diagnosis and treatment of such malignancy and very few cases have been reported in young age less than 30years. We are reporting a case of 22 years old gentleman who presented to us with history of recurrent abdominal pain and vomiting. After evaluation it was diagnosed as adenocarcinoma of third and fourth part of duodenum without any associated syndromes or inflammatory bowel diseases and was managed by surgical resection and chemotherapy.

COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is a highly infectious disease and is causing enormous morbidity and mortality all over the world. Initially it was thought to cause only respiratory complications. But subsequent reports started appearing implicating the gastrointestinal system, nervous system. Thromboembolic complications like myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, stroke and mesenteric ischemia were reported to be the main causative factors. Hereby we are reporting one such case of a patient who presented to surgery emergency with predominant abdominal symptoms.