Surgery General
May 16, 2022
Age-related testicular degeneration can be defined as the progressive deterioration of the testis that typically occurs in middle-aged or older males and that leads to diminished testicular function a...
May 16, 2022
Nearly 60% of the world's inhabitants lack access to timely, safe, and ffordable emergency and essential surgical, anesthetic, and obstetric (SAO) services when needed. Although acknowledged as an imp...
May 16, 2022
Monitoring children's recovery postoperatively is important for routine care, research, and quality improvement. Although telephone follow-up is common, it is also time-consuming and intrusive for fam...
May 16, 2022
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery protocols have demonstrated decreased complication rates and length of stay. However, the influence of mental health on Enhanced Recovery After Surgery success is unkno...
May 16, 2022
Laparoscopic appendectomy is one of the most common emergency general surgery procedures in the United States. Little is known about its postoperative outcomes for older adults because appendicitis ty...
May 09, 2022
The aim of this study was to use coronary computed tomography in patients with normal tricuspid aortic valves to perform detailed aortic root and aortic valve geometric analysis with a focus on the as...
May 09, 2022
African swine fever (ASF) and classical swine fever (CSF) are two major transboundary animal diseases of swine with important socioeconomic consequences at farm, subnational and national level. The ob...
May 09, 2022
Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a complication with high morbidity and mortality, commonly observed in the elderly who underwent anesthesia and surgery. The incidence is much higher in c...
May 09, 2022
Postoperative residual curarization (PORC) may be a potential risk factor of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs), and both of them will lead to adverse consequences on surgical patient recove...
May 09, 2022
Associations between tumor metabolic and volumetric parameters determined by preoperative F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography and survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carci...
May 09, 2022
In the DESIRE study (Discharge aftEr Surgery usIng aRtificial intElligence), we have previously developed and validated a machine learning concept in 1,677 gastrointestinal and oncology surgery patien...
May 02, 2022
The Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (SANE) will correlate with and be equal to or superior in responsiveness to other outcome measures that have been employed in a stand-alone fashion in patients...
May 02, 2022
Sleep deprivation has been linked to a worsening of post-surgical pain and recovery. We believe that a multimodal sleep route, which includes non-pharmacological sleep hygiene therapies and zolpidem a...
May 02, 2022
A high rate of residual instability is associated with first-time anterior shoulder dislocations. As a result, many surgeons advocate for immediate Bankart repair over conservative therapy to address ...
May 02, 2022
To investigate the clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment experience of congenital stenosis of an external auditory canal with external auditory canal cholesteatoma. The clinical data of 152 pati...
May 02, 2022
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Surgical alternatives to treat lumbar spinal stenosis and instability include indirect (ALIF, OLIF, and LLIF) and direct (TLIF or posterior lumbar interbody fusio...
May 02, 2022
Management of advanced or recurrent pelvic cancer has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. Patients who were previously considered inoperable are now candidates for potentially curative sur...
May 02, 2022
Postoperative nausea and vomiting is common in patients receiving microvascular decompression. In the current study, we examined whether postoperative nausea and vomiting is associated with reduced in...
May 02, 2022
Despite the known association between frailty and postoperative morbidity, the use of preoperative frailty in surgical practice remains limited. We sought to develop a risk tool to predict postoperati...
Apr 29, 2022
Understanding the costs of surgical care and the drivers of those costs is necessary for moving toward providing value-based musculoskeletal care. This research showed see how common medical comorbidi...