Robotic assisted common bile duct exploration for management of complex gallstone disease.

Background: Minimally invasive cholecystectomy and common bile duct exploration offers single-stage management for complex gallstone disease (cholelithiasis and choledocholithiasis). The Robotic platform presents benefits in improving operative precision, which has not been extensively evaluated in the acute setting of managing complex gallstone disease, as well as in performing transcholedochal or postcholecystectomy common bile duct exploration. The authors report an early series of emergent and expedited robotic-assisted cholecystectomy with common bile duct exploration (RC-CBDE) or robotic common bile duct exploration (R-CBDE) alone.

Real-World Analysis of Clinical Characteristics, Treatment Patterns, and Patient-Reported Outcomes of Insufficient Responders and Responders to Prescribed Acute Migraine Treatment in China.

Introduction: Migraine is a common disabling primary headache disorder characterized by attacks of severe pain, sometimes accompanied by symptoms including nausea and photo-/phono-phobia. Real-world data of patients with migraine who sufficiently (responders) and insufficiently (insufficient responders) respond to acute treatment (AT) are limited in China. This analysis explored whether responders to AT differ from insufficient responders in terms of clinical characteristics, treatment patterns, and patient-reported outcomes in China.