Surgery General
Jan 27, 2020
The significant burden of emergency operations in low- and middle-income countries can overwhelm surgical capacity leading to a backlog of elective surgical cases. The purpose of this investigation wa...
Jan 27, 2020
To introduce the laparoscopic approach in liver transplant recipients.Despite the increasingly frequent use of laparoscopy in living donor hepatectomy, the laparoscopic approach has never been reporte...
Jan 27, 2020
To achieve a consensus statement on robotic mastectomy.Robotic-assisted surgery has gained much attention especially the results of few case series reporting on the technical feasibility, safety and e...
Jan 27, 2020
Our objective was to identify perceptions of the environment for women in surgery among 4 academic institutions.Faculty surgeons and senior surgery residents were randomly selected to participate in a...
Jan 24, 2020
In light of the heightened risk for infection associated with solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, rapid and accurate microbiology diagnostics are essential to the practice of tran...
Jan 24, 2020
Pioneered by the Mayo Clinic, multimodal therapy with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and orthotopic liver transplant has emerged as a promising option for unresectable hilar cholangiocarcinoma. This st...
Jan 24, 2020
This review article focuses on current clinical outcomes with novel perfusion strategies in organ transplantation. Broadly, these approaches can be divided into in-situ regional perfusion in the donor...
Jan 24, 2020
Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant (PBMT) patients experience significant symptom distress. Mobile health (mHealth) technologies can be leveraged to improve understanding of the patient's symptom e...
Jan 24, 2020
Analyzing occlusion, complications rate and clinical results in unruptured saccular middle cerebral artery aneurysms comparing clipping to the most advance and newer endovascular techniques.We conduc...
Jan 24, 2020
Remote ischaemic conditioning (RIC) has been shown to prevent platelet activation during ablation for atrial fibrillation. RIC has also been associated with more postoperative transfusion in the off-p...
Jan 24, 2020
Esophagectomy is a technically challenging procedure, associated with significant morbidity. The introduction of minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) has reduced postoperative morbidity.Although the...
Jan 24, 2020
Currently, no surveillance guidelines for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence after liver transplantation (LT) exist. In this retrospective, multicenter study, we have investigated the role of s...
Jan 24, 2020
Lymphangiomas are relatively uncommon head and neck region lymphatic malformations. Although surgery can be still considered the mainstay of treatment, sclerotherapy by OK-432 is becoming a widespread...
Jan 24, 2020
To report the incidences of secondary lip and nose operations, otolaryngology procedures, speech-language therapy, neurodevelopmental concerns, and dental and orthodontic issues in children with isola...
Jan 24, 2020
As the demand for cosmetic surgery continues to rise, plastic surgery programs and the training core curriculum have evolved to reflect these changes. This study aims to evaluate the perceived quality...
Jan 24, 2020
Opioid use can cause significant adverse side effects with increased propensity toward both short- and long-term complications in the pediatric population. We present a multifaceted opioid reduction p...
Jan 24, 2020
Prior studies have shown that roadblocks exist for women to achieve higher career levels in plastic surgery. The authors evaluate female representation as lecturers, panelists, and moderators at natio...
Jan 24, 2020
Many orthodontists working on patients with cleft lip and palate (CLP) have shown great enthusiasm for presurgical infant orthopedics (PSIO) to improve surgical outcomes with minimal intervention. Eve...
Jan 24, 2020
: The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of deep dry needling (DN) with and without needle manipulation on pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) and electromyographic (EMG) amplitude of the lu...
Jan 24, 2020
Magnesium-based biodegradable metals (BMs) as bone implants have better mechanical properties than biodegradable polymers, yet their strength is roughly less than 350 MPa. In this work, binary Zn al...