Apr 05, 2023

The following is a summary of "Risk factors for clostridium difficile infection in general surgery patients," published in the JANUARY 2023 issue of Surgery by Hess, et al. A prominent cause of...

Apr 04, 2023

The following is a summary of "Role of tumor phenotype in the surgical treatment of early-stage breast cancer," published in the JANUARY 2023 issue of Surgery by Rooney, et al. For a study, res...

Apr 03, 2023

The following is a summary of "Trends in surgery and survival for T1-T2 male breast cancer: A study from the National Cancer Database," published in the JANUARY 2023 issue of Surgery by Singh, et al. ...

Apr 03, 2023

Plasma concentrations of mycophenolic acid (MPA), an immunosuppressive agent, have been measured in clinical settings using immunoassay methods or HPLC. However, immunoassay methods show cross-reactiv...

Apr 03, 2023

Primary aldosteronism (PA) is a typical example of low renin hypertension, whereas renal artery stenosis (RAS) is a classic form of high renin hypertension. PA and RAS occurring simultaneously in a pa...

Apr 03, 2023

Afflicting 2 million lives annually worldwide, breast cancer remains devastating. This study utilized a continuously updated network of electronic medical records (TriNetX Inc, Cambridge, MA) for anal...

Apr 03, 2023

Perifascial areolar tissue (PAT) is an areolar layer over the muscle fascia. PAT has been shown to be resistant to ischemia and prone to survival even in ischemic conditions. PAT grafts provide a vasc...

Apr 03, 2023

A surgical "Never Event" is a preventable error occurring immediately before, during or immediately following surgery. Various factors contribute to the occurrence of major Never Events, but little is...

Apr 03, 2023

The objective here was to review the efficacy of functional jaw orthopedic appliances for treating children/adolescents with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), through correlating the apnea/hypopnea index...

Apr 03, 2023

NUSAP1 encodes a cell cycle-dependent protein with key roles in mitotic progression, spindle formation, and microtubule stability. Both over- and under-expression of NUSAP1 lead to dysregulation of mi...

Apr 03, 2023

We aimed to quantify the contributions of patient characteristics (PC), hospital structural characteristics (HC), and hospital operative volumes (HOV) to in-hospital mortality (IHM) after major surger...

Apr 03, 2023

E-cigarette use is rapidly growing, and little is known about the postoperative complications. Cigarette smoking has been well-established to be associated with delayed wound healing and increased com...

Mar 31, 2023

The following is a summary of "Racial disparities in outcomes for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the United States," published in the JANUARY 2023 issue of Surgery by Richardson, et al. ...

Mar 30, 2023

The following is a summary of "Impact of inter-hospital transfer on outcomes of urgent cholecystectomy," published in the January 2023 issue of Surgery by Sakowitz, et al. In order to describe ...

Mar 29, 2023

The following is the summary of “Cost-effectiveness of Staple Line Reinforcement in Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy” published in the January 2023 issue of Surgery by Highet, et al. In lapa...

Mar 28, 2023

The following is the summary of “Widening volume and persistent outcome disparity in valve operations: New York statewide analysis, 2005-2016” published in the December 2022 issue of Thoracic and ...

Mar 27, 2023

The following is the summary of “Improved Preoperative Risk Assessment Tools Are Needed to Guide Informed Decision Making before Esophagectomy” published in the January 2023 issue of Surgery by Gr...

Mar 27, 2023

The following is the summary of “Fate of moderate aortic regurgitation after cardiac surgery” published in the December 2022 issue of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery by Ward, et al. The...

Mar 27, 2023

The study objective was to determine effects of donor smoking and substance use on primary graft dysfunction, allograft function, and survival after lung transplant.From January 2007 to February 2020,...

Mar 27, 2023

There is a lack of studies focusing on the benefit of liver transplantation (LT) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with > 3 tumors. This study aims to establish a model to effectively ...