Publications by authors named "A Habermann"
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- The study analyzes advances in restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) for ulcerative colitis (UC) patients, comparing laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery (MIS) to traditional open surgery from 2005 to 2019.
- Data from 6,184 patients showed that MIS significantly reduced the risk of complications and superficial surgical site infections (SSI) compared to open surgery across all time periods studied.
- Results indicated a lower overall morbidity risk with MIS, particularly notable in the early phase of the study, highlighting the ongoing benefits of minimally invasive techniques in surgical practice for UC.
Background: The utilization of three-dimensional printing has grown rapidly within the field of surgery over recent years. Within the subspecialty of colorectal surgery, the technology has been used to create personalized anatomical models for preoperative planning, models for surgical training, and occasionally customized implantable devices and surgical instruments. We aim to provide a systematic review of the current literature discussing clinical applications of three-dimensional printing in colorectal surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We hypothesized that days at home alive up to 30 days after surgery (DAH30), a novel patient-centered outcome metric, as well as long-term mortality, would be impaired in patients with type 1 or 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) undergoing major surgery.
Methods: This cohort study investigated patients > 18 years with and without DM presenting for major non-cardiovascular, non-ambulatory surgical procedures at 23 hospitals in Sweden between 2007 and 2014. We identified 290,306 patients.
Introduction: Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), commonly used for treatment of acute ischemic stroke, is associated with life-threatening bleeding intracranially as well as surrounding the airway.
Case Report: A 78-year-old year old male who presented with stroke symptoms and after tPA administration developed a retropharyngeal hematoma requiring intubation and surgical intervention.
Conclusion: Numerous threats to the patient's airway can develop after tPA administration.
Background: The optimal timing of surgical repair for infants with complete atrioventricular canal defect remains controversial, as there are risks to both early and late repair. We address this debate by investigating the association of various risk factors, including age and weight at surgery, markers of failure to thrive, and pulmonary vascular disease, with postoperative length of stay following complete atrioventricular canal repair.
Methods: Infants who underwent repair of complete atrioventricular canal were identified from our institutional Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database.