Mar 13, 2020

It remains unclear whether intraoperative use of volatile anesthetics has a positive effect on postoperative clinical outcomes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Therefore,...

Mar 13, 2020

The prescription of opioids at discharge after abdominopelvic surgery is variable and often excessive. A lack of guidance for abdominopelvic surgeons may explain the suboptimal nature of current presc...

Mar 13, 2020

More older adults are undergoing major surgery despite the greater risk of postoperative mortality. Although measures, such as functional, cognitive, and psychological status, are known to be crucial ...

Mar 13, 2020

In recent years, depression occurs frequently. Given the long duration of the disease and the high risk of recurrence, the treatment of depression requires long-term medication. Zhi-Zi-Hou-Po Decoctio...

Mar 13, 2020

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) provides long-term enteral nutritional access for patients with inability to eat. Although considered safe, PEG tube placement is associated with complication...

Mar 13, 2020

Diabetes, as a chronic disease, can seriously affect human health. Therefore, it is important to develop a fast and high sensitive enzyme-free glucose sensor for the treatment of diabetes.In this work...

Mar 13, 2020

The purpose of this quality improvement initiative was to demonstrate the value of having a clinical pain pharmacist in transitional perioperative pain management. Patients were referred to the pain p...

Mar 13, 2020

There are significant medical risks of long-term opioid therapy (LTOT) for chronic pain. Consequently, there is a need to identify effective interventions for the reduction of high-dose full-agonist o...

Mar 13, 2020

Alcohol screening may be associated with health outcomes that cluster with alcohol use (ie, alcohol-clustering conditions), including depression, anxiety, and use of tobacco, marijuana, and illicit dr...

Mar 13, 2020

Lung cancer treatment in patients with chronic lung diseases is challenging because postoperative care is difficult and surgical outcomes are poorer than in patients with healthy lungs. This study aim...

Mar 13, 2020

About 50% of patients with non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) are diagnosed with brain metastases during treatment, and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is an important treatment for brain oligometast...

Mar 12, 2020

Stem cells constitute a group of cells which possess the ability for self-renewal as well as the capacity of differentiation into a vast number of different cells within the human organism. Moreover, ...

Mar 12, 2020

Although bariatric surgery is effective against morbid obesity, the association of this surgery with the risk of colorectal cancer remains controversial.To assess whether bariatric surgery is associat...

Mar 10, 2020

Living kidney donors are carefully screened, but despite overall good health, long-term donor outcomes have been shown to vary by predonation demographics. Since 2013 the United Network for Organ Shar...

Mar 10, 2020

Pancreas graft quality directly affects morbidity and mortality rates after pancreas transplantation (PTx). The criteria for pancreas graft allocation are restricted, which has decreased the number of...

Mar 10, 2020

Cord blood transplant (CBT) recipients have a high incidence of herpes zoster (HZ) in the context of short-term peri-transplant antiviral prophylaxis. In 2009, international guidelines recommended HZ ...

Mar 10, 2020

Disruption of the intestinal microbiota caused by intensive chemotherapy, irradiation and antibiotics can result in development of severe gut graft-versus-host disease and infectious complications, le...

Mar 10, 2020

Portopulmonary hypertension (PoPH) is pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) associated with portal hypertension, usually caused by liver cirrhosis. Prognosis is poor for patients with PoPH and liver t...

Mar 10, 2020

Patients who have experienced an acute coronary syndrome should be evaluated in the office setting soon after hospital discharge. First follow-up appointments more than 6 weeks after discharge reduce ...

Mar 10, 2020

With the increasing demand for body contouring procedures in the US over the past two decades, more surgeons with diverse specialty training are performing these procedures. However, little is known r...