1. Patient mortality rates associated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) increased between 2005 and 2011, despite decreases in door-to-balloon...

1. Despite proactive vitamin D supplementation, 80% of morbidly obese patients who underwent omega-loop gastric bypass were vitamin D deficient...

1. After accounting for confounding factors, no difference in overall mortality was noted for recipients of transplants from donors over...

1. Furlow, double-opposing Z-plasty produced better outcomes than traditional straight-line, intravelar veloplasty closure in both isolated cleft palate and unilateral...

1. Ten years after patients received endovascular coiling (EC) or neurosurgical clipping (NC) for a subarachnoid hemorrhage, EC patients were...

1. Both an absolute increase of pre-operative CA 19-9 levels exceeding 50 U/ml as well as rate of change greater...

1. Scripted mental practice training improved jejunojejunostomy completion, an advanced bariatric laparoscopic procedure, even when faced with a crisis scenario....

1. In older patients with colorectal cancer, laparoscopic surgery (LAP) resulted in overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), and cancer-specific...

1. Large volume transfusion requirement and mortality in trauma are better predicted using clot lysis velocity curves. 2. Pathological hyperfibrinolysis...

1. Porcine acellular dermal matrices had low major complication rates following implant-based breast reconstructive surgery. 2. Complications rates between porcine...