Publications by authors named "Javier Lorca"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to assess how obesity and overweight affect surgical outcomes in patients undergoing adrenalectomy for adrenal tumors from 2010 to 2022.
- Results indicated that 9.6% of patients were obese, 54.8% were overweight, and obesity correlated with higher blood pressure, dyslipidemia, and more bilateral tumors compared to non-obese patients.
- Although overall complication rates were similar, obese patients faced significantly more postoperative complications and longer hospital stays, with obesity identified as a primary independent risk factor.
Purpose Of Review: To update the most relevant literature regarding complex cases during kidney transplant setting that recipient presents by himself, especially during implantation surgery due to vascular diseases and/or urinary tract anomalies.
Recent Findings: Increasing age of donors and recipients is leading to an increased complexity of kidney transplant implantation surgery. In addition, the high peripheral vascular disease prevalence worldwide increases difficulty of surgery and decreases long-term outcomes as well.
Purpose Of The Review: To update the most relevant literature regarding complex vascular cases in kidney transplant setting involving the graft, especially during the harvesting procedure and back-table preparation from the subsequent implant.
Recent Findings: Challenging situations affecting the kidney graft such as multiple vessels, renal artery aneurysms, kidney anatomical anomalies, or major injuries do not contraindicate the transplant, but require an exhaustive graft viability assessment and several bench surgery techniques. Graft vessel conditioning in the back-table might include simple anastomosis between them, enlarging with venous patch or reconstruction with donor or synthetic grafts.
Genitourinary schistosomiasis is an acquired cause of urinary tract diseases, especially hematuria. can infect travelers after a single exposure. Bladder is the most frequent organ involved within the urinary tract, although upper tract can also be affected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The CarboMedics "Top-Hat" supraannular prosthesis was designed to permit the implantation of a larger prosthesis. We evaluated the outcome at 10 years in patients with this prosthesis.
Methods: Between June 1993 and May 2001, 269 patients (average age, 63.