Publications by authors named "Katherine-Helen Hurndall"
Introduction: Since 2021, the world has been facing a cost-of-living crisis which has negatively affected population health. Meanwhile, little is known about its impact on patients' preferences to access care. We aimed to analyse public preference for the modality of consultation (virtual vs face-to-face) before and after the onset of crisis and factors associated with these preferences.
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- Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel condition that often leads to surgery, which doesn't cure the disease and has a high rate of recurrence, known as postoperative recurrence (POR).
- A study investigated data from 104 patients who underwent ileo-colonic resection to identify factors that could predict the risk of symptomatic anastomotic POR.
- Findings indicated that patients diagnosed with Crohn's disease at younger than 17 years and with over 30 cm of gastrointestinal involvement had a higher risk for symptomatic anastomotic POR after surgery.
A 19-year-old man with a stab injury to the lower back presented with no focal neurology or haemodynamic instability. He complained of a headache that was improved by lying flat and underwent imaging to look for damage to local structures. He was found to have air in his intraspinal space.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 73-year-old woman presented with a 6-hour history of sudden onset lower abdominal pain. Her comorbidities included chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hypertension. She was under surveillance for a known thoracoabdominal aneurysm.
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