Publications by authors named "E Toloza"
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- - Lung cancer, diagnosed at a median age of 70, poses serious health challenges for older Americans, particularly after surgery, where patients face issues like pain and diminished physical function.
- - A study involving 382 older adults with lung cancer will compare two approaches: telephone-based physical activity coaching versus self-monitoring of physical activity, focusing on their impact on functional capacity and quality of life.
- - The primary goal is to see if coaching can improve patients' performance on a 6-minute walk test and overall well-being 30 days post-surgery, while also addressing the needs of their family caregivers.
Background: A 2023 Cochrane review showed no difference in bleeding/wound infection complications, short-term mortality and aneurysm exclusion between the percutaneous and cut-down approach for femoral access in endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR). In contrast, single-center studies have shown bilateral cutdown resulting in higher readmission rates due to higher rates of groin wound infections. Whether 30-day readmission rates vary by type of access during EVAR procedures is unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe sense of direction is critical for survival in changing environments and relies on flexibly integrating self-motion signals with external sensory cues. While the anatomical substrates involved in head direction (HD) coding are well known, the mechanisms by which visual information updates HD representations remain poorly understood. Retrosplenial cortex (RSC) plays a key role in forming coherent representations of space in mammals and it encodes a variety of navigational variables, including HD.
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- The study investigates the prognostic value of the blood urea nitrogen to serum albumin ratio (BAR) in predicting outcomes for lung cancer patients who undergo robotic-assisted pulmonary lobectomy (RAPL).
- An analysis of 400 patients revealed that while there was a clear threshold for BAR, there were no significant differences in surgical complications or 30-day mortality outcomes between those with Low and High BAR.
- The conclusion is that High BAR does not effectively predict worse outcomes in this context, suggesting the need for further research to explore its prognostic capabilities in lower-risk patient populations.
Association between the Preoperative Standard Uptake Value (SUV) and Survival Outcomes after Robotic-Assisted Segmentectomy for Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC).
Cancers (Basel)
November 2023
Background: Lung-sparing procedures, specifically segmentectomies and wedge resections, have increased over the years to treat early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We investigate here the perioperative and long-term outcomes of patients who underwent robotic-assisted segmentectomy (RAS) at an NCI-designated cancer center and aim to show associations between the preoperative standard update value (SUV) to tumor stage, recurrence patterns, and overall survival.
Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on 166 consecutive patients who underwent RAS at a single institution from 2010 to 2021.