Mar 22, 2023

The following is the summary of “Impact of aortic valve effective height following valve-sparing root replacement on postoperative insufficiency and reoperation,” published in the December 2022 is...

Mar 21, 2023

The following is the summary of “Prevalence, Management, and Outcomes Related to Preoperative Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) in an Adult Surgical Population” published in the...

Mar 20, 2023

The following is the summary of “Clinical features and outcomes of unplanned single lung transplants” published in the December 2022 issue of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery by Terada, et al. ...

Mar 20, 2023

To this day, a discrepancy exists between donor liver demand and supply. Domino liver transplantation (DLT) can contribute to increasing the number of donor livers available for transplantation.The de...

Mar 20, 2023

To describe itraconazole and hydroxy-itraconazole pharmacokinetics following intravenous (IV) administration of a previously developed nanocrystal formulation (NCF) in haematopoietic cell transplant (...

Mar 20, 2023

To describe the initial outcomes of a new multidisciplinary gender-affirming surgery (GAS) program comprised of plastic and urologic surgeons.We retrospectively examined consecutive patients who under...

Mar 20, 2023

It was aimed to evaluate the necessity of using range of motion (ROM) restrictive braces in the postoperative follow-up and rehabilitation of patients who underwent arthroscopic repair due to meniscal...

Mar 20, 2023

Epilepsy is a major public health problem in developing countries where eighty percent (80%) of people with epilepsy (PWE) live. Stigma has psychological consequences as well as serious repercussions ...

Mar 20, 2023

When treating potentially resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma, therapeutic decisions are left to the sensibility of treating clinicians who, faced with a decision that post hoc can be proven wrong, m...

Mar 20, 2023

Postpancreatectomy acute pancreatitis is challenging to diagnose and poorly characterized in its early phases. However, it represents the ideal target for novel therapeutic opportunities possibly glea...

Mar 17, 2023

The following is a summary of "Intraoperative vascular mapping improves patient eligibility for arteriovenous fistula creation," published in the JANUARY 2023 issue of Surgery by Taubenfeld, et al. ...

Mar 17, 2023

The following is the summary of “Open versus hybrid versus totally minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy: Systematic review and meta-analysis” published in the December 2022 issue of Thoraci...

Mar 16, 2023

The following is the summary of “Enhanced Recovery Protocols Reduce Mortality Across Eight Surgical Specialties at Academic and University-affiliated Community Hospitals” published in the January ...

Mar 15, 2023

The following is the summary of “Failure to Rescue in Emergency General Surgery Impact of Fragmentation of Care” published in the January 2023 issue of  Surgery by Hanna, et al. Evaluate t...

Mar 14, 2023

The following is the summary of “Incidence and Cumulative Risk of Major Surgery in Older Persons in the United States” published in the January 2023 issue of Surgery by Becher, et al. The p...

Mar 13, 2023

The following is the summary of “Optimal Timing of Perioperative Chemoprophylaxis in Patients With High Thromboembolic Risk Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery” published in the January 2023 issue ...

Mar 13, 2023

There has been a recent increase in the number and complexity of quality improvement studies in plastic surgery. To assist with the development of thorough quality improvement reporting practices, wit...

Mar 13, 2023

The use of tranexamic acid has become widespread in orthopedics to promote hemostasis and has been successfully used to reduce blood loss and infection risk in joint arthroplasty. However, the cost-ef...

Mar 13, 2023

In light of the heterogeneity of epilepsy, both from a clinical and from an etiological perspective, it is difficult to establish a link between epilepsy and development that can be generalized to all...

Mar 13, 2023

Patients awake during staged cutaneous surgery procedures may experience procedure-related pain.To determine whether the level of pain associated with local anesthetic injections prior to each Mohs st...