Apr 08, 2021

The aim of our study was to compare the clinical results and costs of wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT), intravenous regional anesthesia (IVRA), and infraclavicular brachial plexus bl...

Apr 08, 2021

To ensure safe patient care, regulatory bodies worldwide have incorporated non-technical skills proficiency in core competencies for graduation from surgical residency. We describe normative data on n...

Apr 05, 2021

To analyze the outcomes in children with short bowel syndrome (SBS), parenteral nutrition dependence (PND) and intestinal failure associated liver disease (IFALD), treated in our Intestinal Rehabilita...

Apr 05, 2021

Utilisation of pancreases for transplantation remains inferior to that of other organs. Herein we analysed UK pancreas discards to identify the reasons for the low utilisation rates.Data on all pancre...

Apr 05, 2021

To evaluate candidacy for surgical mitral valve (MV) repair of recurrent mitral regurgitation (MR) after failed MitraClip.Percutaneous mitral repair with MitraClip is safe and effective in patients wi...

Apr 05, 2021

Antiplatelet therapy is paramount to reduce the risk of coronary stent thrombosis after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Newer agents are reliable and have a fast onset of action, but have si...

Apr 05, 2021

Business and practice management principles are critical components of healthcare provision. Business and practice management is currently undertaught in plastic surgery training programs. The objecti...

Apr 05, 2021

Tranexamic acid (TXA) is an antifibrinolytic that has become widely used in aesthetic facial plastic surgery, although its efficacy has not been well investigated.To evaluate the existing evidence for...

Apr 05, 2021

Random skin flap is widely used in plastic surgery. However, flap necrosis caused by ischemia-reperfusion injury limits its clinical applications. Apigenin, a naturally occurring flavonoid mainly deri...

Apr 05, 2021

Osteosarcoma, a common malignant tumor in orthopedics, often has a very poor prognosis after lung metastasis. Immunotherapy has not achieved much progress in the treatment because of the characteristi...

Apr 05, 2021

Small bowel neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) represent approximately one-third of NETs of the gastrointestinal tract, and their incidence is increasing. When determining if endoscopic resection is appropr...

Apr 05, 2021

We aimed to present our initial clinical experience on the implementation of a stereotactic MR-guided online adaptive radiation therapy (SMART) for the treatment of liver metastases in oligometastatic...

Apr 05, 2021

The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery recommends a minimum of 20 surgical specialists and 5,000 annual operations per 100,000 population by 2030. In 2012, Sierra Leone was far from reaching these ta...

Apr 05, 2021

Adjuvant chemotherapy is the standard of care for resected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) based on level 1 evidence, but some studies suggest that a neoadjuvant approach (which is standard fo...

Apr 01, 2021

Not many multisite investigations have been conducted that evaluate the impact of early interventions for injured patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study aims to evaluate the im...

Apr 01, 2021

Previous observational studies comparing emergency surgery outcomes with surgeon experience have not been able to provide statistically significant data. This study aims to investigate the association...

Apr 01, 2021

Wearing masks has become necessary during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the consequences of wearing a mask on communication between patients and surgeons have not been studied. This study aims to an...

Apr 01, 2021

En diciembre de 2019 se identificó en la ciudad de Wuhan, China, un nuevo beta coronavirus, el SARS-CoV-2, como agente causal de neumonía grave, conocida como COVID-19, lo cual ha provocado medidas ...

Apr 01, 2021

Inflammation post transplantation is directly linked to cell death programs including apoptosis and necrosis. Cell death leads to the release of cellular contents which can promote inflammation. Targe...

Apr 01, 2021

There is a growing need to identify which bits of information are most valuable for healthcare providers. The aim of this study was to search for the highest impact variables in predicting postsurgery...