Publications by authors named "Karim Touihri"

Background: The efficacy and safety of opioid-free anaesthesia during bariatric surgery remain debated, particularly when administering multimodal analgesia. As multimodal analgesia has become the standard of care in many centres, we aimed to determine if such a strategy coupled with either dexmedetomidine (opioid-free anaesthesia) or remifentanil with a morphine transition (opioid-based anaesthesia), would reduce postoperative morphine requirements and opioid-related adverse events.

Methods: In this prospective double-blind study, 172 class III obese patients having laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery were randomly allocated to receive either sevoflurane-dexmedetomidine anaesthesia with a continuous infusion of lidocaine and ketamine (opioid-free group) or sevoflurane-remifentanil anaesthesia with a morphine transition (opioid-based group).

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  • The study looked at how lidocaine, a type of medicine, might help protect blood vessel layers in patients having major abdominal surgery.
  • Researchers tested 40 patients, comparing those who got lidocaine to those who got saline (a salt water solution).
  • They found that while surgery increased certain markers related to blood vessel health, lidocaine didn’t seem to make a difference compared to the saline. *
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Background: The type of fluid and volume regimen given intraoperatively both can impact patient outcome after major surgery. This two-arm, parallel, randomized controlled, double-blind, bi-center superiority study tested the hypothesis that when using closed-loop assisted goal-directed fluid therapy, balanced colloids are associated with fewer postoperative complications compared to balanced crystalloids in patients having major elective abdominal surgery.

Methods: One hundred and sixty patients were enrolled in the protocol.

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Aims: Recent studies indicate that brain natriuretic peptide (BNP(1-32)) may be truncated into BNP(3-32) by dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP4) and that BNP(3-32) has reduced biological activities compared with BNP(1-32). We investigated if DPP4 contributes to the cardiorenal alterations and to the attenuated response to BNP seen in heart failure.

Methods And Results: Haemodynamic and renal assessment was performed in 12 pigs at baseline, 4 weeks after pacing-induced heart failure, and during BNP infusion.

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Background: Heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction and abnormal diastolic function is commonly observed after recovery from an acute myocardial infarction. The aim of this study was to investigate the physiopathology of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in a model of healed myocardial infarction in dogs.

Methods: Echocardiography, levels of neurohormones and conductance catheter measurements of left ventricular pressure-volume relationships were obtained in 17 beagle dogs 2 months after a coronary artery ligation, and in 6 controls.

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Background: Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) and cyclins are thought to play a role in myocardial hypertrophic response to insults. We investigated these signaling pathways in canine models of ischemic or overpacing-induced cardiomyopathy.

Methods: Echocardiographic recordings and myocardial sampling for measurements of gene expressions of IGF-1, its receptor (IGF-1R), TGFbeta and of cyclins A, B, D1, D2, D3 and E, were obtained in 8 dogs with a healed myocardial infarction, 8 dogs after 7 weeks of overpacing and in 7 healthy control dogs.

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Objective: Stem cell therapy can facilitate cardiac repair in infarcted myocardium, but the optimal cell type remains uncertain. We conducted a randomized, blind, and placebo-controlled comparison of autologous bone marrow mononuclear cell and mesenchymal stem cell therapy in a large-animal model of chronic myocardial infarction.

Methods: Eleven weeks after coronary ligation, 24 dogs received intramyocardial injections of mononuclear cells (227.

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Synopsis of recent research by authors named "Karim Touihri"

  • - Karim Touihri's recent research predominantly focuses on optimizing anesthesia and pain management strategies in surgical settings, with notable studies addressing opioid-sparing techniques in multimodal anesthesia during bariatric surgery.
  • - His work includes evaluating the use of intravenous lidocaine to prevent endothelial dysfunction after major abdominal surgery, highlighting its potential anti-inflammatory effects as part of the perioperative care.
  • - Additionally, Touihri has investigated fluid management strategies in major abdominal surgeries, comparing the efficacy of colloids and crystalloids within closed-loop systems, contributing valuable insights into intraoperative care and postoperative outcomes.

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