The HAS-BLED Score is Associated With Major Bleeding in Patients After Cardiac Surgery.

Objective: The Hypertension, Abnormal renal/liver function, Stroke, Bleeding history or predisposition, Labile international normalized ratio, Elderly, Drugs/alcohol (HAS-BLED) score has been developed to predict the risk of potential bleeding in anticoagulated patients affected by atrial fibrillation. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that the HAS-BLED score is associated with major bleeding also in patients after cardiac surgery.

Design: Prospective, single-center nonrandomized study.

Surgical outcomes for liposarcoma of the lower limbs with synchronous pulmonary metastases.

Background And Objectives: Surgical resection of pulmonary metastases from soft tissues sarcomas has typically yielded disparate results, owing to the histologic heterogeneity of various series and the presentation times relative to primary tumor discovery. It was our hypothesis that with expeditious, curative surgical resection of both, primary and metastatic disease, patients with liposarcoma of the lower limb and synchronous, resectable, pulmonary metastases might achieve satisfactory outcomes.

Methods: A consecutive sample clinical study, with a mean follow-up duration of 30 months.