Sep 25, 2023

The Veterans Health Administration has been criticized for long wait times; however, studies indicate that Veterans Health Administration wait times are shorter than those for the Veterans Health Admi...

Sep 25, 2023

Increasing regionalization for esophagectomy for cancer may lead patients to travel for surgery at one institution and receive chemotherapy at another closer to home. We explore the effects on surviva...

Sep 18, 2023

Anaemic cardiac surgery patients are at greater risk of intraoperative red blood cell transfusion. This study questions the application of the World Health Organization population-based anaemia thresh...

Sep 18, 2023

To explore the effectiveness of hairpin shaped incision combined with cover-lifting flap in plastic surgery of huge fat pad on nape and back.Between March 2019 and March 2023, 10 patients with huge fa...

Sep 18, 2023

The United Kingdom (UK) injectables market has been growing rapidly with a lack of robust regulation and to date, no information regarding the profile of practitioners has been published.We aim to pro...

Sep 18, 2023

Bibliometric studies in the field of orthopedics have increased because of the large volume of the available literature that prevents understanding the general status of the related field. This study ...

Sep 18, 2023

Reducing potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) is a challenge in post-acute care hospitals. Some PIMs may be associated with patient characteristics and it may be useful to focus on frequent PI...

Sep 18, 2023

Bariatric surgery is the most effective and sustainable form of weight loss. Bariatric surgery before elective operations for colorectal pathology may improve postoperative outcomes. To compare patien...

Sep 18, 2023

The Global Evaluative Assessment of Robotic Skills is a popular but ultimately subjective assessment tool in robotic-assisted surgery. An alternative approach is to record system or console events or ...

Sep 11, 2023

Standardized use of venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment models (RAMs) in surgical patients has been limited, in part due to the cumbersome workflow addition required to use available models. ...

Sep 11, 2023

Matriptase-2 (MT2), encoded by TMPRSS6, is a membrane-anchored serine protease. It plays a key role in iron homeostasis by suppressing the iron-regulatory hormone, hepcidin. Lack of functional MT2 res...

Sep 11, 2023

Respiratory complexes and cardiolipins have exceptionally long lifetimes. The fact that they co-localize in mitochondrial cristae raises the questions of whether their longevities have a common cause ...

Sep 11, 2023

There is a gender gap in the surgical field worldwide. Brazil and low- and middle-income countries generally tend to have a more profound gap. Therefore, we aim to assess the gender distribution in Br...

Sep 11, 2023

Pyknodysostosis is a rare genetic disorder characterized by skeletal and craniofacial abnormalities. It is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the gene encoding cathepsin K. Pyknody...

Sep 11, 2023

In orthopedic surgery, patient-specific bone plates are used for fixation when conventional bone plates do not fit the specific anatomy of a patient. However, plate failure can occur due to a lack of ...

Sep 11, 2023

Neurological complications during Full-Endoscopic Spine Surgery(FESS) might be attributed to intracranial pressure(ICP) increase due to continuous saline infusion(CSI). Understanding CSI and ICP corre...

Sep 11, 2023

The mass effect associated with large or giant intracranial aneurysms is difficult for traditional endovascular treatment. This study investigated whether flow diverters can relieve the aneurysmal mas...

Sep 11, 2023

To quantify the rate of low-yield surgery, defined as no high-grade dysplastic precursor lesions or T1N0M0 pancreatic cancer at pathology, during pancreatic cancer surveillance.Global efforts have bee...

Sep 11, 2023

Although small airway dysfunction is a common respiratory dysfunction, its prognosis after lung cancer surgery is often neglected. This study investigated the relationship between small airway dysfunc...

Sep 04, 2023

Surgical treatment of asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis(AS) is gaining attention following the results of RECOVERY and AVATAR trials showed survival benefits with early surgical aortic valve replace...