Publications by authors named "Anand S Rathnasamy Muthusamy"

Objectives: The disruption to surgical training and medical education caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for realistic, reliable, and engaging educational opportunities available outside of the operating theatre and accessible for trainees of all levels. This article presents the design and development of a virtual reality curriculum which simulates the surgical mentorship experience outside of the operating theatre, with a focus on surgical anatomy and surgical decision-making.

Method: This was a multi-institutional study between London's King's College and Imperial College.

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BACKGROUND Pancreas transplantation has proven to be the most effective therapeutic option for insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. However, despite advances in surgical technique and continuously improving outcomes, pancreas transplantation has the highest complication rate among all solid-organ transplants. Vascular complications in particular can be catastrophic, with graft- and life-threatening potential.

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Current cold storage organ preservation technique fails to preserve marginal donor grafts sufficiently. Evidence from large animal experiments suggests superiority of normothermic machine preservation of liver allografts. Long-term organ preservation using normothermic perfusion might not only allow organ viability assessment before transplantation, but also provide the means for further organ modifications under physiologic conditions.

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