Background: Operative mortality for high-grade liver injury (HGLI) remains 42% to 66%, with near-universal mortality after retrohepatic caval injury. The objective of this study was to evaluate mortality and complications of operative and nonoperative management (OM and NOM) of HGLI at our institution, characterized by a trauma surgery-liver surgery collaborative approach to trauma care.
Methods: This was an observational cohort study of adult patients (age ≥16) with HGLI (The American Association for Surgery of Trauma (AAST) grades IV and V) admitted to an urban level I trauma center from January 2010 to November 2021.
In this work, we shall study the role of threefold and fivefold coordination defects in the structure and dynamics of the hydrogen bond network of liquid water, with special emphasis on the glassy regime. A significant defect clusterization propensity will be made evident, with a prevalence of mixed pairs, that is, threefold- and fivefold-coordinated defects being first neighbors of each other. This structural analysis will enable us to determine the existence of defective and nondefective regions compatible with the high local density and low local density molecular states of liquid water, respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVarious tools have been proposed for predicting mortality among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 to improve clinical decision-making, the predictive capacities of which vary in different populations. The objective of this study was to develop a model for predicting mortality among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during their time in a clinical centre. This was a retrospective study that included 201 patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: surface sarcomas are a rare entity that need correct diagnosis to differentiate parosteal (cPOS), periosteal and the high grade surface osteosarcomas (HGSO). HGSO has malignant behavior similarities with osteosarcomas and wide resection is the key to a successful treatment.1 The Capanna and Hemi-Capanna reconstruction techniques have being developed in order to avoid amputation after an oncological resection, allowing structural support from an allograft and biological advantages from a vascularised autograft.
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