Background: In recent years, laparoscopic liver resection has elicited growing attention as a safe procedure for various forms of hepatic resection. In the context of an aging population, this study aims to evaluate outcomes in elderly patients (>70 y) compared with younger patients (≤70 y).
Methods: All consecutive patients undergoing minimally invasive liver resections between December 2013 and January 2018 at the Department of Surgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, were included in this analysis.
Background: In Cameroon herbs are traditionally used to meet health care needs and plans are on the way to integrate traditional medicine in the health care system, even though the plans have not been put into action yet. The country however has a rich biodiversity, with ~8,620 plant species, some of which are commonly used in the treatment of several microbial infections and a range of diseases (malaria, trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, diabetes and tuberculosis).
Methods: Our survey consisted in collecting published data from the literature sources, mainly from PhD theses in Cameroonian university libraries and also using the author queries in major natural product and medicinal chemistry journals.