Practice variation in venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in adolescent trauma patients: A comparative analysis of pediatric, adult, and mixed trauma centers.

Introduction: Adolescent trauma patients are at increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). It is unclear whether VTE prophylaxis practice patterns differ across trauma center types.

Methods: The ACS-TQP database was queried for patients aged 12-17 admitted to a pediatric, adult, or mixed level I/II trauma center.

Comparative preoperative characteristics and postoperative outcomes at a private versus a safety-net hospital following endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal resection of pituitary adenomas.

Objective: Sociodemographic disparities in health outcomes are well documented, but the effects of such disparities on preoperative presentation of pituitary adenomas (PA) and surgical outcomes following resection are not completely understood. In this study the authors sought to compare the preoperative clinical characteristics and postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing PA resection at a private hospital (PH) versus a safety-net hospital (SNH).

Methods: The authors conducted a retrospective review over a 36-month period of patients with PAs who underwent endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery performed by the same attending neurosurgeon at either a PH or an SNH at a single academic medical institution.

Surgical management of clinically silent thyrotropin pituitary adenomas: A single center series of 20 patients.

Silent thyrotropin pituitary adenomas (TSHomas) are defined by absence of hyperthyroidism despite TSH immunopositivity. Data pertaining to clinical and surgical characteristics of silent TSHomas remains limited. We aim to describe the clinical presentation, pathological characteristics, and outcomes in silent TSHoma patients treated at a tertiary pituitary center.