Mar 29, 2021

While telehealth use in surgery has shown to be feasible, telehealth became a major modality of health care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic.To assess patterns of telehealth use across surgical s...

Mar 29, 2021

As respiratory system compliances are heterogenous, we hypothesized that individualized intraoperative positive end-expiratory pressure titration on the basis of lowest driving pressure can reduce pos...

Mar 25, 2021

Pulmonary artery obstruction is an uncommon but significant complication after lung transplantation. Although numerous reports have documented its occurrence, the hemodynamic parameters associated wit...

Mar 25, 2021

Regional variation in lung transplantation practices due to local coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prevalence may cause geographic disparities in access to lung transplantation.Using the United Net...

Mar 25, 2021

Machine perfusion of donor livers is currently regarded as the most important innovation in transplant surgery to address the continuing shortage of organs in liver transplantation. Hypothermic machin...

Mar 25, 2021

 In blunt trauma patients, injury of the thoracic aorta is the second most common cause of death after head injury. In recent years, thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) has largely replaced ...

Mar 25, 2021

 Third-generation transcatheter heart valves (THV) are predominantly implanted through a percutaneous, transfemoral access. To reduce vascular complications, we selectively performed surgical vascul...

Mar 25, 2021

Misconceptions surrounding the discipline of plastic surgery are widespread among not only the public, but medical students and professionals, as well. The purpose of this study was to explore how the...

Mar 25, 2021

Hand surgery is a unique subspecialty in which one can train after completion of either a plastic, orthopedic, or general surgical residency. This study compared hand surgery experience in residency a...

Mar 25, 2021

This study used single-center analysis of human serum albumin clinical usage and enteral-parenteral nutritional support to establish clinical application standards for the rational use of human serum ...

Mar 25, 2021

Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a devastating complication in orthopedics and trauma surgery. A potential increase in PJI diagnoses, especially in combination with psychological comorbiditie...

Mar 25, 2021

A bibliometric review of the literature.To identify the most frequently cited articles relating to the repair of intervertebral disc (IVD) and to summarize the key points and findings of these highly ...

Mar 25, 2021

In this study, the reproducibility and validity of an automated artificial finger for evaluating properties of vaginal wall tissue was assessed. The effect of angle and rate of indentation on displaci...

Mar 25, 2021

The aim of this prospective randomized-controlled trial was to evaluate the risks/benefits of prophylactic central neck dissection (pCND) in patients with clinically node negative (cN0) papillary thyr...

Mar 25, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) has numerous applications in surgical quality assurance. We assessed AI accuracy in evaluating the critical view of safety (CVS) and intraoperative events during laparosco...

Mar 25, 2021

The sociopolitical and cultural context of graduate surgical education has changed considerably over the past 2 decades. Although new structures of graduate surgical training programs have been develo...

Mar 24, 2021

When deciding between two or more treatment options, gaining a better understanding of how patients and caregivers value the specific risks and benefits of each choice can facilitate shared decision m...

Mar 23, 2021

“In high-income countries, men more often sustain burn injuries than women,” explains Lincoln M. Tracy, PhD. “The ratio is approximately two men for every woman. Despite this ratio, women have a...

Mar 22, 2021

Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) is a rare, life-threatening disease characterized by hepatic venous outflow obstruction. Liver transplantation (LT) is widely accepted as an effective therapeutic measure fo...

Mar 22, 2021

ABO-incompatible heart transplantation increases donor availability in young children and is evolving into standard of care in children younger than 2 years. Previous smaller studies suggest similar o...