Publications by authors named "A De Roo"
Navigating the Surgical Pathway for Frail, Older Adults Undergoing Colorectal Surgery.
Clin Colon Rectal Surg
January 2025
Adults ≥ 65 years of age comprise nearly 20% of the U.S. population and over half of surgical patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Patients with rectal cancer face a potentially life-limiting disease with multi-modal treatment options conferring substantial symptom burdens. Treatment decisions frequently require trade-offs and input from a multidisciplinary team: ideal cases for shared decision-making. Using qualitative analysis, we characterized the content of communication between surgeons and patients who have rectal cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) outbreaks, driven by the expanding habitat of the Aedes albopictus mosquito and global climate change, pose a significant threat to public health. Our study evaluates the effectiveness of emergency vaccination using a dynamic disease transmission model for a potential large-scale outbreak in Rome, Italy.
Methods: The model incorporates a susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered (SEIR) framework for human and mosquito populations, taking into account temperature-dependent mosquito lifecycle dynamics, human-mosquito interactions, and various vaccination scenarios.
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- * Between 2011 and 2020, there were 18.7 million chikungunya cases globally, resulting in 1.95 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), primarily affecting the Latin American and Caribbean regions.
- * The economic impact over this period was substantial, with direct costs of $2.8 billion and indirect costs reaching $47.1 billion, highlighting the need for effective resource allocation to manage this disease.
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- Soft tissue tumors can grow or stay the same size, but rarely shrink on their own; exceptions include conditions like inflammation and certain benign tumors.
- Intramuscular myxomas are benign tumors that usually appear as slow-growing, painless masses and are typically removed with surgery, which has low recurrence rates.
- This text discusses three unusual cases where intramuscular myxomas in different body areas shrank spontaneously, challenging the usual treatment approaches for these lesions.