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Craniosynostosis and Elevated Intracranial Pressure: A Multivariate Model of Age, Syndromic Status, and the Number of Affected Cranial Sutures

Jan 03, 2022

Children with many prematurely fused cranial sutures and those who receive surgical correction later in life appear to have poorer neurocognitive outcomes. Still, it’s unclear if increased intracran...

A Retrospective Cohort Analysis to Predict Outcomes in Dandy-Walker Malformation

Jan 03, 2022

Most neurologists and neurosurgeons encounter Dandy-Walker malformation (DWM) at some point during their employment. The cerebellar vermis is characterized by partial or full dysgenesis. The range of ...

What Are The Risk Factors For The Ventricles Remaining Intact When a Paediatric Shunt Fails?

Jan 03, 2022

Children whose ventricles do not change due to shunt failure pose a diagnostic challenge. For this study, researchers wanted to find risk variables for unaltered ventricular size when a shunt fails. F...

Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage In Infants With Hydrocephalus After Serial Ventricular Reservoir Taps And its Relation To The Neurodevelopmental Outcome At 2 Years of Age

Jan 03, 2022

For preterm newborns with hydrocephalus, decompression of ventricles using a temporary device is frequently the first neurosurgical surgery. After observing a subgroup of infants who had intraparenchy...

Double-Network Hydrogel Armored Decellularized Porcine Pericardium as Durable Bioprosthetic Heart Valves.

Jan 03, 2022

Heart valve has extraordinary fatigue resistance which beats ∼3 billion times in a lifetime. Bioprosthetic heart valves (BHVs) made from fixed heteroplasm that are incrementally used in heart valve ...

The Association Between H-Index and Publication of Plastic Surgery the Meeting Presenters From 2014 to 2017.

Jan 03, 2022

Plastic surgery is a competitive specialty that values research productivity among members of the field. The Hirsch index has been shown to measure a researcher's scientific impact. This study sought ...

The impact of pharmacist intervention on prophylactic antibiotics use in orthopedic surgery at a hospital in China.

Jan 03, 2022

This study aimed to assess the impact of the pharmacist-led intervention on perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis by standardizing the cephalosporin intradermal skin test in the orthopedic department.A...

Adverse Fetal Outcomes and Maternal Mortality Following Non-Obstetric Abdominopelvic Surgery in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Jan 03, 2022

To quantify the absolute risks of adverse fetal outcomes and maternal mortality following non-obstetric abdominopelvic surgery in pregnancy.Surgery is often necessary in pregnancy, but absolute measur...

Gender Related Differences in Surgeon Compensation: Survey Results from the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.

Jan 03, 2022

We sought to understand the effect of gender on compensation among colorectal surgeons and to determine which factors contribute to gender-based differences in compensation.The gender-based wage gap i...

Characteristics of Postoperative Opioid Prescription For Lumbar Discectomy

Dec 28, 2021

Currently, the role of spine surgeons in causing and mediating long-term prescription opioid use is debatable. A study aimed to determine whether or not prescription opioids were used after lumbar dis...

Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy Effectiveness in Achondroplasia Hydrocephalus

Dec 28, 2021

The failure rate of ventriculoperitoneal shunts (VPSs) for hydrocephalus in patients with achondroplasia is greater than in other hydrocephalus populations. However, the cause of hydrocephalus in this...

Full Posterior Cranial Vault Distraction Osteogenesis to Treat Chiari Malformation Type I Associated with Craniosynostosis

Dec 28, 2021

PVDO (posterior vault distraction osteogenesis) is a technique for expanding the posterior cranial fossa and increasing intracranial volume. To fully widen the posterior cerebral fossa, the authors ex...

A Randomized Trial's 10-year Results of Artificial Disc Replacement and Adjacent-Segment Pathology

Dec 27, 2021

Artificial disc replacement (ADR) is a therapy option that preserves motion and protects against adjacent-segment pathology (ASP). This 10-year follow-up study of 153 people who had anterior decompres...

A Cadaveric Biomechanical Investigation of L5–S1 Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Stability

Dec 27, 2021

Excessive stress and motion at the L5–S1 level, especially in patients with posterior instrumentation suprajacent to L5, can cause degenerative changes. The use of L5–S1 anterior lumbar interbody ...

Advances in Neurosurgery Guidance Using Augmented Reality-Based Navigation for Accurate Target Acquisition of Deep Brain Sites

Dec 27, 2021

For this study, scientists determined the navigational accuracy of an advanced augmented reality (AR)–based guiding system for minimally invasive neurological surgery, biopsy, and other operations. ...

The Importance of the Stagnation Sign in Clinical and Radiological Risk Factors for Rupture of a Dissecting Aneurysm of the Vertebral Artery

Dec 27, 2021

The research aimed to look into the clinical and radiological factors linked to the rupture of a vertebral artery dissecting aneurysm (VADA) and see if the stagnation sign is a substantial risk factor...

The Role of The Parietooccipital Fissure in The Pathogenesis of Posterior Medial Temporal Gliomas

Dec 27, 2021

The temporal, occipital, and parietal lobes are divided by the parietooccipital fissure, an anatomical landmark. The temporal lobe is the most common location for gliomas. Although the parietooccipita...

Study Assessing Patient-Reported and Surgical Outcomes of Minimally Invasive versus Open Lumbar Spinal Fusion

Dec 27, 2021

With the growing number of justifications for and popularity of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for lumbar spinal fusion, a large-scale outcomes study comparing MIS, and conventional procedures is ne...

Long-term Clinical Outcomes of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Patients Given Nonablative Marrow Transplants.

Dec 27, 2021

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) is a syndrome characterized by profound T cell deficiency that is universally fatal in infancy unless immune reconstitution is achieved by hematopoietic stem ce...

Aesthetic and Functional Abdominoplasty: Anatomical and Clinical Classification based on a 12-year Retrospective Study.

Dec 27, 2021

Abdomen reshaping is a common plastic surgery procedure, and numerous surgical techniques have been described in the scientific literature. To standardize surgical approach, we propose our protocol th...

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