The Burden of ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation: Readmission Rates and Complications, a Twenty-Year Analysis.

: ABO-incompatible live-donor kidney transplantation (ABOi-LDKT) has become an established treatment for end-stage renal disease. Non-inferiority in the long-term graft function compared to ABO-compatible live-donor kidney transplantations (ABOc-LDKTs) has been shown. However, the assumed burden due to complications owing to increased immunosuppression inherent to ABOi-LDKTs has not yet been quantified.

Alloplastic Vascular Grafts for Venous Interposition in Pancreatic Surgery: Readily Available and Reliable.

Objective: To investigate patency and clinical outcomes of alloplastic and other venous interposition graft materials in pancreatic surgery.

Background: Vascular pancreatic surgery is increasingly performed for locally advanced pancreatic neoplasms. Different than other centers, we prefer to use alloplastic vascular graft materials for superior mesenteric vein and portal vein interposition in pancreatic surgery.

Single and few cell analysis for correlative light microscopy, metabolomics, and targeted proteomics.

The interactions of proteins, membranes, nucleic acid, and metabolites shape a cell's phenotype. These interactions are stochastic, and each cell develops differently, making it difficult to synchronize cell populations. Consequently, studying biological processes at the single- or few-cell level is often necessary to avoid signal dilution below the detection limit or averaging over many cells.

Who Do We Fail to Rescue after Pancreatoduodenectomy? Outcomes Among >4000 Procedures Expose Windows of Opportunity.

Objective: Our investigation on in-hospital mortality after 4474 pancreatoduodenectomies aimed to identify time-dependent risks as well as windows of opportunity to rescue patients from complications.

Background: Pancreatoduodenectomy is generally considered a safe procedure with a 1-10% perioperative mortality based on complexity and surgical volume. Yet, patients are susceptible for life-threatening complications particularly with extended resections.

Preoperative Surgical or Endoscopic Bile Duct Drainage in Pancreatic Cancer.

Background: Patients with pancreatic cancer and obstructive jaundice routinely undergo endoscopic stent placement (ES). It is well known that ES causes bacterial contamination and infectious complications after pancreatic resection.

Objective: To compare short-term outcomes and survival in patients undergoing pancreatic head resection after preoperative ES vs preoperative surgical drainage (SD) via T-tube insertion.