Sex Differences in Long-Term Survival and Cancer Incidence After Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair.

Long-term gender-specific survival and cancer incidence in patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (rAAA) were investigated after endovascular (EVAR) and open repair (OAR). : Data from 2933 patients (EVAR n = 1187, OAR n = 1746) from a health insurance company in Germany (men n = 2391, women n = 542) were analyzed. All patients were cancer-free in their history.

International publication activity in orthopaedic surgery over a ten-year interval.

Purpose: International English language publication activities in orthopaedic surgery comparing the years 2008/09 to 2018/19 were analyzed.

Methods: 20 international journals listed on PubMed were examined. The impact factor (IF) for each journal was determined using the InCites Journal Citation Report.

Gender-Specific Long-Term Results After Elective Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Depending on the Site of Distal Anastomosis.

Objective: Analysis of gender-specific differences in short- and long-term outcome after elective open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (OAR) regarding the distal anastomosis.

Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, data from 4853 patients of a German health insurance company undergoing OAR for infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) between 2010 and 2016 were analysed. The patients were followed through 2018.

Long-Term Outcome of Lower Extremity Bypass Surgery in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Critical Limb Ischemia in Germany.

Background: The aim of this study is to present short- and long-term outcomes after lower extremity bypass (LEB) surgery in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia and chronic kidney disease (CKD), differentiated by peripheral artery disease (PAD) Fontaine stage III and IV.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of anonymized data from a nationwide German health insurance company (AOK). Data from 22,633 patients (14,523 men) who underwent LEB from 2010 to 2015 were analyzed, presenting 18,271 with CKD stage 1/2, 2,483 patients with CKD stage 3, and 1,879 with CKD stage 4/5.

Publication performance of university maxillofacial surgeons in Germany.

The aim of this bibliometric analysis was to benchmark the publication activities of German university departments of oral and maxillofacial surgery. The publication performance of staff surgeons (chief and consultants), documented by first or last authorship, from 37 German university departments was captured over a 10-year period (January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2019). All publications listed in PubMed were included.

Long-Term Outcome of Lower Extremity Bypass Surgery in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Patients with Critical Limb-Threatening Ischaemia in Germany.

Aim: To present the short- and long-term outcomes of lower extremity bypass (LEB) surgery in patients with critical limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI), comparing diabetic (DM) and non-diabetic (non-DM) patients.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of anonymised data from a nationwide health insurance company (AOK). Data from 22,633 patients (DM: = 7266; non-DM: = 15,367; men: = 14,523; women: = 8110; mean patient age: 72.

[Inpatient rehabilitation for patients 65 years and older with abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: Indications and long-term outcome].

Background: In Germany, there is no data available on the frequency of inpatient rehabilitation (IR) after elective endovascular (EVAR) and open (OAR) abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair.

Objective: To report for the first time on the outcome of patients 65 years and older and thus of retirement age with and without IR after AAA repair in a retrospective analysis of routine data from all eleven regional companies of the AOK health insurance fund (AOK-Gesundheit).

Methods: Anonymized data of 16,358 patients 65 years and older with intact abdominal aortic aneurysm treated with EVAR (n = 12,960) or OAR (n = 3,398) between 01/01/2010 and 12/31/2016 were analyzed.

Long-term outcome and cancer incidence after lower extremity bypass surgery in patients with critical limb threatening ischemia.

Purpose: The influence of cancer development on long-term outcome after lower extremity bypass surgery in patients with critical limb threatening ischemia was investigated.

Methods: Patient survival and cancer incidence were recorded for 21,082 patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) stage III (n = 5631; 26.7%) and stage IV (n = 15,451; 73.

The Treatment of Patients With an Unruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and a Concomitant Malignancy.

Background: Having cancer adversely effects the outcome of treatment for an unruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).

Methods: A retrospective secondary analysis was performed on the basis of anonymized data from AOK, a German nationwide statutory healthinsurance carrier. Data were evaluated from all of the 20 683 patients who underwent either endovascular (EVAR, 15 792) or open surgical (OAR, 4891) treatment for an unruptured AAA in the years 2010-2016.

Long-Term Outcome of Intact Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm After Endovascular or Open Repair.

Objective: Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) has been established as a standard treatment option for intact abdominal aortic aneurysm (iAAA) and gained importance due to a lower perioperative mortality than open repair (OAR). However, whether this survival advantage can be maintained or if OAR is beneficial in terms of long-term complications and reinterventions remains questionable.

Design: In this retrospective cohort study data from patients undergoing elective EVAR or OAR for iAAAs in the years 2010-2016 was analyzed.

[Long-term Results after Endovascular and Open Repair of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm - a Propensity Score Matched Analysis].

Background: This retrospective propensity score matched study presents the perioperative mortality and long-term survival up to 9 years after endovascular (EVAR) and open (OAR) repair of patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (rAAA) in Germany using health insurance data.

Materials And Methods: 2170 patients treated between January 1st, 2010 and December 31st, 2016, for rAAA within 24 hours of hospital admission and receiving blood transfusions were enrolled in the study and tracked until December 31st, 2018. For better comparability of EVAR and OAR, a 1:1 propensity score matching with 624 pairs according to patient age, sex and comorbidities was carried out using the R program (Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria).

Outcomes of endovascular repair of infrarenal penetrating aortic ulcers.

To report technical success as well as perioperative outcomes of patients who underwent endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) of penetrating abdominal aortic ulcers ≤35 mm in diameter (PAU). The abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) quality registry of the German institute for vascular research (DIGG) was used to identify patients with standard EVAR for infrarenal PAU ≤35 mm between 1/1/2019 and 12/31/2021. Infectious, traumatic, inflammatory PAUs, PAUs associated with connective tissue disease, PAUs following aortic dissection as well as true aneurysms were excluded.

Long-term outcome and cancer incidence after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

Purpose: The influence of cancer development on long-term outcome after elective endovascular (EVAR) vs. open repair (OAR) of non-ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) was investigated.

Methods: Patient survival and cancer incidence were recorded for 18,802 patients registered with the AOK health insurance company in Germany who underwent EVAR (n = 14,218) and OAR (n = 4584) in the years 2010 to 2016 (men n = 16,086, women n = 2716).

[Perioperative lethality after endovascular and open repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms: An analysis of administrative data of the AOK health insurance fund].

Objective: In this paper we will report the perioperative outcome after endovascular (EVAR) and open (OAR) repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (rAAA) in Germany based on data of the AOK health insurance fund.

Methods: Anonymised data of all patients with rAAA (n = 3,227) who were treated from 01/01/2010 to 12/31/2016 were analysed, using SPSS 27 (IBM Deutschland GmbH, Ehningen, Germany).

Results: 41.

Bibliometric Analysis of Research Areas, Publication Hierarchy and Gender Authorship in German University Orthopaedic Surgery.

Background: The aim of the present bibliometric study was to record the focus of publications, type of study and publication activities depending on the hierarchy level and gender of the authors of German university departments for orthopaedic surgery.

Material And Methods: The publication performance of the staff surgeons, consisting of chief and senior physicians, section and division heads of 39 German university departments of orthopaedic surgery university hospitals, was recorded over a period of 10 years (January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2019). All publications were considered that were listed in PubMed and for which the staff surgeons were first or last authors.

COVID and Climate: Similarities and differences.

The cases of COVID-19 and climate change highlight the central role of scientific research which supposedly guides political decision-making. Models and scenarios assume a central role. However, science cannot tell us what to do.

[Publication performance of university orthopedic trauma surgery in Germany].

Background: One of the performance criteria of a university hospital is its publication activities. The aim of this bibliometric study was a comparative benchmarking of the publication activities of German orthopedic trauma surgery university hospitals.

Material And Methods: The publication performance of the leading groups, consisting of chief and senior physicians, section and division heads of 39 German orthopedic trauma surgery university hospitals, was recorded over a period of 10 years (1 January 2010-31 December 2019).

Publication activity of chief and consultant general/visceral surgeons in German university hospitals-a ten-year analysis.

Purpose: The publication activity of 38 German general/visceral surgery university departments, documented by first or last authorship from staff surgeons (chief and consultants), was evaluated.

Methods: The observation period extended from 2007 to 2017 and all PubMed-listed publications were considered. Impact factor (IF) was evaluated through the publishing journal's 5-year IF in 2016, as was the IF for each individual publication.

Endovascular and Open Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.

Background: This review presents the surgical indications, surgical procedures, and results in the treatment of asymptomatic and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA).

Methods: An updated search of the literature on screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of AAA, based on the German clinical practice guideline published in 2018.

Results: Surgery is indicated in men with an asymptomatic AAA ≥ 5.

Higher HbA1c levels associate with lower hippocampal serotonin transporter availability in non-diabetic adults with obesity.

The current study aimed to investigate whether the in vivo availability of central serotonin reuptake transporters (5-HTT) is associated with plasma levels of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in non-diabetic humans with obesity. 5-HTT availability was measured by using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with the 5-HTT selective radiotracer [C]DASB in 23 non-diabetic individuals with obesity and 14 healthy, non-obesity controls. Parametric images of binding potential BP were generated from the PET data and analyzed together with HbA1c levels by using volume of interest analysis for brain areas relevant to appetite control.

[Case load and quality indicators in the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms].

Background: The MTL30 (mortality, transfer, length of stay) was proposed as a surrogate parameter for evaluating the quality of large and potentially complication-prone visceral surgical interventions.

Objective: The aim of this study was to find out to what extent the MTL30 can be correlated with the results of the abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) registry of the German Institute for Vascular Health Research (DIGG) of the German Society for Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine (DGG) and with the case volume of the participating hospitals.

Material And Methods: Elective endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) was performed in 14,282 patients and open repair (OAR) in 3923 patients.