Surgery General
May 13, 2021
The orthopedic device industry relies heavily on clinical evaluation to confirm the safety, performance, and clinical benefits of its implants. Limited sample size often prevents these studies from ca...
May 13, 2021
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread around the globe, and it is important to determine the risk factors of death in the general population. Our study aimed to determine the risk factors of ...
May 13, 2021
To evaluate the efficacy and safety of ureteral stent placement (USP) as a preoperative procedure for gynecological cancer surgeries.This was a single-institution retrospective cohort study of 259 pat...
May 13, 2021
Intraoperative hypotension during major surgery is associated with adverse health outcomes. This phenomenon represents a potentially important therapeutic target for vascular surgery patients, who may...
May 13, 2021
Nintedanib is an antifibrotic agent approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of lung fibrosis. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of nintedanib for the preve...
May 13, 2021
Surgical site infection (SSI) prevention remains significant, particularly in the era of antimicrobial resistance. Feedback on practices and outcomes is known to be key to reduce SSI rates and optimiz...
May 10, 2021
Outcomes relevant to treatment decision-making are inconsistently reported in trials involving glomerular disease. Here, we sought to establish a consensus-derived set of critically important outcomes...
May 10, 2021
Early warning of infection is critical to reduce risk of deterioration and mortality, especially in neutropenic patients following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT). Given that heart rate ...
May 10, 2021
Due to the increasing concerns of global warming and short instrumental records of sea surface temperature (SST), coral-based proxies, such as δO, Sr/Ca, U/Ca, and Li/Mg have been developed and appli...
May 10, 2021
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) uses 510(k) clearance and premarket approval (PMA) pathways to ensure device safety before marketing. Premarket approval evaluates high-risk medical devices a...
May 10, 2021
To fight the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many countries have implemented social distancing and lockdowns. We investigated the changes in the trauma patterns of emergency plastic surg...
May 10, 2021
Modern women feel compelled to meet near-impossible standards of beauty. For many, this pursuit ultimately culminates in cosmetic surgery - a radical form of beautification that is rapidly becoming po...
May 10, 2021
Medial meniscus posterior root tears (MMPRTs) have recently attracted considerable interest in orthopedics. To date, no in vivo human study has investigated suture translation changes in repaired MMPR...
May 10, 2021
The UNESP-Botucatu multidimensional feline pain assessment scale (UFEPS) is a valid and reliable instrument for acute pain assessment in cats. However, its limitations are that responsiveness was not ...
May 10, 2021
Myxoid soft tissue tumors consist of a heterogeneous group of mesenchymal neoplasms with a hallmark of the abundant extracellular myxoid matrix. Intramuscular myxomas are rare benign tumor affecting t...
May 10, 2021
The consumption of wolfberry (Lycium barbarum), a rich source of carotenoids and bioactive polysaccharides, may serve as a potential dietary strategy for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk management a...
May 10, 2021
Pancreaticoduodenectomy without subsequent nasogastric tube management has not been widely adopted due to delayed gastric emptying, the specific and frequent morbidity associated with this surgical pr...
May 06, 2021
Recent studies have shown that in patients with closed humeral shaft fracture, surgery fails to provide superior functional outcomes when compared with non-operative patients. However, the need for se...
May 06, 2021
There is no evaluation of axillary pathologic complete response rates (PCR) for all breast cancer subtypes. This includes patients with and without the pathologically proven node-positive disease. Thi...
May 06, 2021
Continuous hypothermic machine perfusion during organ preservation is found to be beneficial on graft function and survival compared with static cold storage (SCS) in kidney transplants. This study ai...