Age may not impact residential status after abdominal surgery
1. The majority of patients 70 or older were discharged after non-elective abdominal surgery and returned to their pre-admission residential...
Preoperative coagulation status may predict liver transplant complications
1. Low pre-operative fibrinogen and protein C levels were independently associated with the postoperative incidence of hemorrhage and thrombosis, respectively,...
Gastric bypass surgery linked to improved quality of life
1. Gastric bypass surgery was associated with better health-related quality of life (HRQoL) scores compared to non-operated obese controls at...
Hamstring tendons often regenerate after harvest for ACL repair
1. From a systematic review of 18 publications, 79% of semitendinosus tendons and 72% of gracilis tendons harvested for ACL...
Pediatric cardiac surgery occurring at earlier age, with better outcomes over 50+ year review
1. Survival at 22 years was improved across all types of pediatric cardiac surgery when comparing those operated on between...
The ZEUS study: everolimus maintains durable renal transplant function
1. Conversion at 4.5 months following kidney transplant from cyclosporine (a calcineurin inhibitor) to everolimus (a mTOR pathway inhibitor) maintains...
CT texture analysis may predict liver insufficiency after hepatectomy
1. In patients undergoing partial hepatectomy, pre-operative CT scans of liver parenchyma revealed less homogenous texture in patients who went...
Surgical site anesthetic infusion may enhance analgesia after mastectomy
1. Continuous postoperative levobupivacaine infusion into the surgical site was associated with less pain and decreased consumption of analgesics following...
Possible risk factors for sphenoid sinus tumor recurrence identified
1. Tumor recurrence with inverted papilloma is more likely if the initial tumor involves the carotid artery or optic nerve...
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass may slow progression of diabetic retinopathy
1. In diabetic retinopathy patients undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, there was no significant progression of diabetic retinopathy scores after 2...