Successful treatment of sclerosing mesenteritis with tamoxifen monotherapy.

Sclerosing mesenteritis is a rare disorder characterized by fat necrosis, chronic inflammation, and fibrosis of the small bowel mesentery. With a paucity of published clinical trials on sclerosing mesenteritis, treatment is based on case reports and trials of other fibrosing diseases, such as idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis. We present a case of a 68-year-old woman with sclerosing mesenteritis who exhibited complete symptomatic and radiographic resolution with the use of tamoxifen monotherapy.

Specialization improves outcomes in rectal cancer surgery.

Scope Of Specialty: Colorectal surgery encompasses any procedure performed on the colon and/or rectum. This section focuses on rectal surgery, specifically regarding surgery for rectal cancer and its technical complexity and disease complexity that often requires a multidisciplinary team-based approach. The emergence of rectal cancer surgical specialists exhibits improvements in rectal cancer outcomes.

Impact of Patient-Reported Penicillin Allergy on Antibiotic Prophylaxis and Surgical Site Infection Among Patients Undergoing Colorectal Surgery.

Background: Surgical site infections are a major preventable source of morbidity, mortality, and increased health care expenditures after colorectal surgery. Patients with penicillin allergy may not receive the recommended preoperative antibiotics, putting them at increased risk for surgical site infections.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of patient-reported penicillin allergy on preoperative antibiotic prophylaxis and surgical site infection rates among patients undergoing major colon and rectal procedures.

Prophylaxis of Crohn's disease recurrence: A surgeon's perspective.

Management of inflammatory bowel disease has evolved extensively in the last three decades. We have learnt a lot about the pathophysiology and natural history of the disease. New effective classes of drugs with the associated potential morbidity have been introduced.

3D Printing Custom Bioactive and Absorbable Surgical Screws, Pins, and Bone Plates for Localized Drug Delivery.

Additive manufacturing has great potential for personalized medicine in osseous fixation surgery, including maxillofacial and orthopedic applications. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate 3D printing methods for the fabrication of patient-specific fixation implants that allow for localized drug delivery. 3D printing was used to fabricate gentamicin (GS) and methotrexate (MTX)-loaded fixation devices, including screws, pins, and bone plates.