Publications by authors named "B Wiemann"
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- The study analyzed 1645 liver transplants, focusing on 421 pediatric cases at Hannover Medical School from 2005 to 2021, highlighting the lack of comprehensive data in this area.
- It found that pleural effusions were the most common postoperative complications (49.4%), with donor age and recipient age being significant risk factors for developing them.
- The authors suggest that preventive measures like intraoperative chest drain placement may improve outcomes, particularly for those at risk of biliary complications and retransplantation.
Background: Compared with primary transplantation, ipsilateral renal re-transplantation is associated with an increased risk of surgical complications and inferior graft outcomes. This study investigates whether an ipsilateral re-transplantation approach is an independent risk factor for surgical complications and early graft loss.
Methods: In this retrospective, single-centre analysis, surgical complications and early graft outcomes of ipsilateral kidney re-transplantations from January 2007 to December 2017 were compared with primary transplantations and contralateral re-transplantations.
The rapidly aging population in industrialized countries comes with an increased incidence of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCC) which presents new challenges for oncological treatments especially in elderly patients. Thus, the question arises to what extent the benefit of surgical resections, as the only curative treatment option, outweighs possible perioperative risks in patients ≥ 80 years of age (octogenarians). We therefore retrospectively analyzed 311 patients who underwent resection for iCC at Hannover Medical School between January 1996 and December 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The incidence of thyroid cancer in the United States has risen dramatically since the 1970s, driven by an increase in the diagnosis of small tumors. There is a paucity of published New Mexico (NM) specific data regarding thyroid cancer. We hypothesized that due to New Mexico's unique geographic and cultural makeup, the incidence of thyroid cancer and tumor size at diagnosis in this state would differ from that demonstrated on a national level.
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- Posthepatectomy liver failure (PHLF) is a major cause of short-term death after liver surgery, and this study evaluates the effectiveness of two liver function tests: APRI+ALBI and LiMAx.
- The study analyzed 352 patients from four European centers, comparing the predictive potential of both tests for significant PHLF and 90-day mortality using statistical methods.
- Results showed that APRI+ALBI was more effective than LiMAx in predicting PHLF grades B and C as well as 90-day mortality, and it was also less costly and less labor-intensive.