Antibiotic Prophylaxis and Spinal Infection After Gunshot Wounds to the Spine: A Retrospective Study.

Introduction: Spinal and paraspinal infections (SPIs) are a potential complication following traumatic spinal column injury, and we sought to determine the association of antibiotic prophylaxis on SPI development following a spinal gunshot wound (GSW).

Methods: A single-center retrospective cohort study was performed on adults who sustained a GSW to the spinal column over 11 y. Patients were excluded if they died within 24 h or had a mechanism other than GSW.

Trauma surgeon-performed peripheral arterial repairs are associated with equivalent outcomes when compared with vascular surgeons.

Background: Civilian extremity trauma with vascular injury carries a significant risk of morbidity, limb loss, and mortality. We aim to describe the trends in extremity vascular injury repair and compare outcomes between trauma and vascular surgeons.

Methods: We performed a single-center retrospective review of patients 18 years or older with extremity vascular injury requiring surgical intervention between January 2009 and December 2019.

Pediatric liver transplantation for hepatocellular cancer and rare liver malignancies: US multicenter and single-center experience (1981-2015).

A tenth of all pediatric liver transplantations (LTs) are performed for unresectable liver malignancies, especially the more common hepatoblastoma (HBL). Less understood are outcomes after LT for the rare hepatocellular carcinoma, nonhepatoblastoma embryonal tumors (EMBs), and slow growing metastatic neuroendocrine tumors of childhood. Pediatric LT is increasingly performed for rare unresectable liver malignancies other than HBL.

Host conditioning and rejection monitoring in hepatocyte transplantation in humans.

Background & Aims: Hepatocyte transplantation partially corrects genetic disorders and has been associated anecdotally with reversal of acute liver failure. Monitoring for graft function and rejection has been difficult, and has contributed to limited graft survival. Here we aimed to use preparative liver-directed radiation therapy, and continuous monitoring for possible rejection in an attempt to overcome these limitations.