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Surgery General

Optimizing Motor Intention Detection With Deep Learning: Towards Management Of Intraoperative Awareness.

Mar 11, 2021

This article shows the interest in deep learning techniques to detect motor imagery (MI) from raw electroencephalographic (EEG) signals when a functional electrical stimulation is added or not. Impact...

Nudging patients and surgeons to change ambulatory surgery pain management: Results from an opioid buyback program.

Mar 11, 2021

Optimal postoperative opioid stewardship combines adequate pain medication to control expected discomfort while avoiding abuse and community diversion of unused prescribed opioids. We hypothesized tha...

Hypertonic saline solution decreases oxidative stress in liver hypothermic ischemia.

Mar 11, 2021

Liver ischemia reperfusion injury is still an unsolved problem in liver surgery and transplantation. In this setting, hypothermia is the gold standard method for liver preservation for transplantation...

30 Years of Heart Transplant: Outcomes after Mechanical Circulatory Support from a Single Center.

Mar 08, 2021

Survival after bridge to transplant with mechanical circulatory support (MCS) has yielded varying outcomes based on device type and baseline characteristics Continuous flow left ventricular assist dev...

Navigating Immune Cell Immunometabolism after Liver Transplantation.

Mar 08, 2021

Liver transplantation (LT) is the most effective treatment for end-stage liver diseases. The immunometabolism microenvironment undergoes massive changes at the interface of immune functionalities and ...

Cereblon modulator CC-885 induces CRBN-dependent ubiquitination and degradation of CDK4 in multiple myeloma.

Mar 08, 2021

Molecular glue degraders that hijack cellular E3 ubiquitin ligases to target disease-driven proteins for proteosome-dependent degradation are emerging as a promising treatment. Immunomodulatory drugs ...

Efficacy of microsurgery in treatment of localized or multiple gingival recession: A systematic review.

Mar 08, 2021

To address the clinical question whether microsurgery hold an advantage in terms of clinical and patient oriented outcome over conventional macrosurgical procedures in the treatment of gingival recess...

Aerosol and droplet generation from orbital repair: Surgical risk in the pandemic era.

Mar 08, 2021

The highly contagious COVID-19 has resulted in millions of deaths worldwide. Physicians performing orbital procedures may be at increased risk of occupational exposure to the virus due to exposure to ...

Written Informed Consent-Translating into Plain Language. A Pilot Study.

Mar 08, 2021

Informed consent is important in clinical practice, as a person's written consent is required prior to many medical interventions. Many informed consent forms fail to communicate simply and clearly. T...

Decision curve analysis to evaluate the clinical benefit of prediction models.

Mar 08, 2021

There is increased interest in the use of prediction models to guide clinical decision-making in orthopedics. Prediction models are typically evaluated in terms of their accuracy: discrimination (area...

Perspectives of using Cloud computing in integrative analysis of multi-omics data.

Mar 08, 2021

Integrative analysis of multi-omics data is usually computationally demanding. It frequently requires building complex, multi-step analysis pipelines, applying dedicated techniques for data processing...

The Evidence Base for the Benefits of Functional Septorhinoplasty and its Future Post COVID-19.

Mar 08, 2021

Ever since the introduction of the concept of Procedures of Limited Clinical Value (PoLCV), procedures such as functional septorhinoplasty have been subject to additional funding restrictions within t...

Benefit of postoperative radiotherapy in patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma in human papillomavirus (HPV) era: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database analysis.

Mar 08, 2021

This study aimed to investigate the survival benefit of postoperative radiotherapy in patients with resected human papilloma virus-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma using data from the Su...

Transcultural adaptation and validation of the Moroccan Arabic dialect version of the Wexner incontinence score in patients with low anterior resection syndrome after rectal surgery.

Mar 08, 2021

Bowel dysfunction symptoms such as stool clustering, urgency, incomplete voiding, and fecal incontinence are frequent after colorectal surgery and known as the low anterior resection syndrome. The Wex...

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in a patient with osteopetrosis and mutation in CLCN7: long-term follow-up.

Mar 04, 2021

Osteopetrosis is a rare hereditary bone dysplasia characterized by insufficient osteoclast activity that results in increased bone mineral density. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can r...

Impact of the new heart allocation policy on patients with restrictive, hypertrophic, or congenital cardiomyopathies.

Mar 04, 2021

Patients with restrictive or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (RCM/HCM) and congenital heart disease (CHD) do not derive clinical benefit from inotropes and mechanical circulatory support. Concerns were ex...

Is there a role for haematopoietic cell transplants after radiation and nuclear accidents.

Mar 04, 2021

My task is to consider whether haematopoietic cell transplants would be considered appropriate today in persons with features like victims of high-dose and dose-rate ionizing radiations after the Cher...

Predictive value of endoscopic esophageal findings for residual esophageal cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.

Mar 04, 2021

 Endoscopic evaluation of the esophageal mucosa may play a role in an active surveillance strategy after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) for esophageal cancer. This study investigated the yield...

Comparison of the Effects of Repeated Applications of Platelet-Rich Plasma versus Platelet-Poor Plasma on Fat Graft Survival in Nude Mice.

Mar 04, 2021

Autologous fat grafting has been widely used for soft tissue filling in plastic surgery. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) could play a wide role in health and disease because of containing a variety of grow...

Improving smoking cessation referrals among elective surgery clinics through electronic clinical decision support.

Mar 04, 2021

Preoperative visits are an exceptional opportunity to encourage smoking cessation, as studies demonstrate the experience of scheduling elective surgery produces an actionable incentive to quit. Howeve...

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