Publications by authors named "B Saracco"
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- Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) has been used for over 20 years to treat fecal incontinence and this review aims to evaluate its long-term effectiveness over a follow-up period of at least 36 months.
- A total of 36 studies involving 3770 participants were analyzed, though all studies showed a serious risk of bias, and success rates varied widely, indicating that while SNS typically improves symptoms and quality of life, definitions of success differ across studies.
- Despite significant improvements in symptoms and quality of life reported, the findings are limited due to inconsistent study designs and a lack of comparative trials, with a notable revision rate of 35.2% and explantation rate of 19.7%.
Background: There is a discrepancy in the surgical and endoscopic literature for managing duodenal perforations. Although often managed conservatively, surgical repair is the standard treatment for duodenal perforations. This contrasts with the gastroenterology literature, which now recommends endoscopic repair of duodenal perforations, which are more frequently iatrogenic from the growing field of advanced endoscopic procedures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: People who are dependent on opioids experience acute pain similar to other individuals. However, treating acute pain in these patients renders unique challenges such as opioid-induced hyperalgesia, opioid tolerance, withdrawal and stigma from healthcare providers. Thus, it is crucial to identify effective strategies for treating acute pain in this population and to highlight gaps in knowledge to create a high standard of care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Breast Cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic affected healthcare delivery throughout North America. Breast cancer diagnosis and management was similarly affected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Real-world data on the use of left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP) as an alternative novel pacing strategy to biventricular pacing (BVP) for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) remains scarce. We aimed to investigate the outcomes of LBBAP as an alternative to BVP as a method of CRT.
Methods: Electronic databases were searched for studies on the use of LBBAP as CRT and studies that compared LBBAP with BVP.