Feb 07, 2023

The following is a summary of "Focusing in on gallbladder disease. Do current imaging modalities accurately depict the severity of final pathology?," published in the December 2022 issue of Surgery by...

Feb 06, 2023

The following is a summary of "Emergencies do not shut down during a pandemic: COVID pandemic impact on Acute Care Surgery volume and mortality at a level I trauma center," published in the December 2...

Feb 06, 2023

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is increasingly being used to treat younger, lower-risk patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV). Patient-specific computer simulation may identify patie...

Feb 06, 2023

Perioperative medication management is vital to maintain patient safety while under anesthesia, as well as to avoid postoperative complications. Plastic surgeons make daily decisions on whether to ask...

Feb 06, 2023

The American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS) has collected data on cosmetic surgery tracers as part of the Continuous Certification (CC) process since 2005. These data offer valuable information on na...

Feb 06, 2023

An essential component of joint quality is cartilage. Therefore, the protection of this is a prerequisite for maintaining the condition of each joint. The assessment of the presence of articular carti...

Feb 06, 2023

Biofilm-related infections are serious problems in the Orthopedics field, and Staphylococcus aureus are the most popular causative agents of bacterial infections associated with arthroplasty. Several ...

Feb 06, 2023

To evaluate the outcomes of scoliosis corrective surgery in Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) patients with primarily pedicles screw fixation in terms of correcting and maintaining the correction of the sp...

Feb 06, 2023

To utilize natural language processing (NLP) of MRI reports and various clinical variables to develop a preliminary model predictive of the need for surgery in patients with low back and neck pain. Su...

Feb 06, 2023

Evaluate the association of evidence-based opioid prescribing guidelines with new persistent opioid use after surgery.Patients exposed to opioids after surgery are at risk of new persistent opioid use...

Feb 03, 2023

The following is a summary of "Color or money?: The impact of socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity on breast cancer mortality," published in the December 2022 issue of Surgery by Nnorom, et al. ...

Feb 02, 2023

The following is a summary of "Improving blunt cerebrovascular injury screening in motor vehicle collision patients: Does airbag deployment matter?," published in the December 2022 issue of Surgery by...

Feb 02, 2023

The following is the summary of “Surgical outcomes of infective endocarditis in pediatrics: Moving the needle to a contemporary, multidisciplinary approach,” published in the January 2023 issue of...

Feb 01, 2023

The following is a summary of "Pre-operative cardiopulmonary, metabolic, abdominal, and somatic variations by race in men with obesity resolve after Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB): Dysl...

Feb 01, 2023

The following is the summary of “Ross procedure in neonates and infants: A valuable operation with defined limits” published in the January 2023 issue of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery by Cle...

Jan 31, 2023

The following is the summary of “Valve-sparing root replacement after the Ross procedure” published in the January 2023 issue of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery by Hobbs, et al. The Ros...

Jan 30, 2023

The following is the summary of “American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) 2022 Expert Consensus Document: Management of infants and neonates with tetralogy of Fallot” published in the Janu...

Jan 30, 2023

Superior mesenteric artery embolism (SMAE) is a rare cause of acute abdomen, and the fatality rate is extremely high if it is not diagnosed and treated in time. Due to the lack of knowledge and experi...

Jan 30, 2023

Few objective measures are available for assessing the success of facial rejuvenation after face lift surgery. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) may be used for this type of measurement. The purpos...

Jan 30, 2023

Medical cannabis (MC) has been proposed as a potential addition to multimodal pain management regimens in orthopedics. This study evaluates hand and upper-extremity patient perspectives of MC as a tre...