Publications by authors named "D D Usero"
Unlabelled: It has recently been shown that micropauses during long surgical procedures can be beneficial for surgeons' precision and fatigue. The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of micropauses on surgical precision measured by a simple smartphone application.
Material And Methods: Two surgeons performed 40 simple laparoscopic procedures (appendectomy and cholecystectomy) with or without micropauses.
Background: Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors behave as potent immunosuppressants, which have the advantages, with respect to calcineurin inhibitors (CNI; cyclosporine or tacrolimus), of no nephrotoxicity but inhibition of cell proliferation. They are particularly suitable for patients with renal insufficiency or neoplasias.
Materials And Methods: Twenty-eight liver transplant patients were immunosuppressed with everolimus or sirolimus as rescue therapy after CNI treatment: 8 hepatocellular carcinomas; 7 de novo malignancies; 6 renal insufficiencies; 3 chronic rejections; 3 acute rejection episodes; and 1 epilepsy.