Impact of hypercortisolism on skeletal muscle mass and adipose tissue mass in patients with adrenal adenomas.

Context: Abdominal visceral adiposity and central sarcopenia are markers of increased cardiovascular risk and mortality.

Objective: To assess whether central sarcopenia and adiposity can serve as a marker of disease severity in patients with adrenal adenomas and glucocorticoid secretory autonomy.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Surgery Website as a 24/7 Adjunct to a Surgical Curriculum.

Objective: Successfully teaching duty hour restricted trainees demands engaging learning opportunities. Our surgical educational website and its associated assets were assessed to understand how such a resource was being used.

Design: Our website was accessible to all Mayo Clinic employees via the internal web network.

At Home Preresidency Preparation for General Surgery Internship: A Pilot Study.

Objective: To create a novel "at-home" preresidency preparatory adjunct for medical students entering surgical residency.

Design: Preparatory resources were mailed to match medical students before residency matriculation in 2015. This included "how-to" videos, low-cost models, and surgical instruments for 5 "stations" (arterial blood gas analysis, anatomy and imaging knowledge, knot tying ability, and suturing dexterity) of our program's biannual general surgery intern objective assessment activity (Surgical Olympics: total 13 stations, 10 points each).

Tube Thoracostomy Complications Increase Cost.

Background: Tube thoracostomy (TT) can be an effective therapy for thoracic pathologies. Ineffective placement of TT is common and associated with significant complications. Complications require additional interventions to repair damaged tissues or replace dysfunctional TT.

Risk factors for postoperative hematoma after inguinal hernia repair: an update.

Background: We recently sensed an increase in the frequency of groin hematoma after inguinal hernia repair (IHR) at our institution. The aim of this study was to provide a more updated assessment of the risk factors inherent to this complication.

Methods: We performed a case-control study of all adult patients (age ≥ 18 y) who developed a groin hematoma after IHR at our institution between 2003 and 2015.

Chemoprevention in Barrett's Esophagus: Current Status.

Chemoprevention in Barrett's esophagus is currently applied only in research settings. Identifying pathways that can be targeted by safe, pharmaceutical or natural compounds is key to expanding the scope of chemoprevention. Defining meaningful surrogate markers of cancer progression is critical to test the efficacy of chemopreventive approaches.