Publications by authors named "Eduardo H G Joaquim"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how perioperative blood transfusions affect short- and long-term outcomes in pediatric living donor liver transplantation (PLDLT) for small patients, focusing on complications and mortality.
- A total of 240 children were evaluated, with findings revealing that higher volumes of transfusions (over 27.5 mL/kg) were linked to more serious postoperative complications and increased mortality rates over a 10-year follow-up period.
- In the short term, high-volume transfusion recipients experienced more severe infectious, cardiovascular, and respiratory complications but had fewer rejection complications compared to those with low-volume transfusions.
Background: Cancer patients configure a risk group for complications or death by COVID-19. For many of them, postponing or replacing their surgical treatments is not recommended. During this pandemic, surgeons must discuss the risks and benefits of treatment, and patients should sign a specific comprehensive Informed consent (IC).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There are limited data on surgical complications for patients that have delayed surgery after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We aimed to analyze the surgical outcomes of patients submitted to surgery after recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Methods: Asymptomatic patients that had surgery delayed after preoperative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for SARS-CoV-2 were matched in a 1:2 ratio for age, type of surgery and American Society of Anesthesiologists to patients with negative RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2.