Jan 17, 2020

Bridge to elective surgery using self-expandable metal stent (SEMS) placement is a debated alternative to emergency resection for patients with left-sided obstructive colon cancer because of oncologic...

Jan 17, 2020

To test the hypothesis that higher hospital volume decreases endoscopic and surgical re-intervention rates after antireflux surgery.Antireflux surgery for gastro-esophageal reflux disease is followed ...

Jan 17, 2020

In the era of subspecialization and duty-hour restrictions, many General Surgery residents desire additional training in their future subspecialty areas. This study examines the relationship between c...

Jan 17, 2020

To evaluate the effectiveness of routine intravenous iron in surgical patients with iron deficiency anemia (IDA).Anemia is the most common medical disease in the world and is an independent risk facto...

Jan 17, 2020

Additional data comparing longer-term problems associated with various bariatric surgical procedures are needed for shared decision-making.To compare the risks of intervention, operation, endoscopy, h...

Jan 13, 2020

Evidence suggests worse-than-normal outcomes in noncardiac surgery during the first month of the academic year (July). “This so-called ‘July effect’ has never been studied in cardiac surgery,”...

Jan 09, 2020

THURSDAY, Jan. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In a clinical practice guideline from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation, published online Jan. 7 in Otolaryngology-Head...

Jan 07, 2020

Agency says it is still too early to know how severe this year's flu season will be. MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Flu continues to spread throughout the United States and has reached...

Dec 27, 2019

The longer patients continue with buprenorphine treatment, the lower their risk of adverse outcomes.   THURSDAY, Dec. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Buprenorphine treatment may be needed ...

Dec 05, 2019

THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- There is considerable variation across counties in receipt of curative-intent surgery for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a stud...

Dec 03, 2019

TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) converted from medial unicompartmental (or "partial") knee arthroplasty (UKA) has a risk for revision that is threefold higher t...

Dec 02, 2019

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Surgery for November 2019. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal articles, as well as the...

Nov 27, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who are frail and very frail have high rates of postoperative mortality across all levels of operative stress, according to a study published onli...

Nov 27, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Change in the U.S. allocation system for donor hearts has reduced waitlist mortality, but posttransplantation outcomes may have been worsened, according to...

Nov 26, 2019

Clinical guidelines recommend that patients who undergo invasive procedures have a platelet count level above 50x10^9/L; these guidelines historically have applied to all patients and do not specifica...

Nov 25, 2019

MONDAY, Nov. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Teens who undergo bariatric surgery may be at increased risk for nutritional deficiencies years later, according to a study published online Nov. 6 in Clinica...

Nov 25, 2019

MONDAY, Nov. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The five-year incidence rate of joint surgery in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients is twice as high as in the general population, and this rate has remained ...

Nov 21, 2019

THURSDAY, Nov. 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Firearm injury seems to have a lasting effect, with survivors of gunshot wounds (GSW) having negative outcomes for years, according to a study published onl...

Nov 20, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Transcranial magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (tcMRgFUS) thalamotomy shows continued benefit for suppression of medication-refractory essential...

Nov 18, 2019

MONDAY, Nov. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The long-term risk for women with stress urinary incontinence needing surgical revision or removal after initial placement of synthetic midurethral slings is ...