Surgery in the COVID-19 Era: A Narrative Review.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected the delivery of surgical care and services. This review article aims to appraise the impact of COVID-19 on surgical care. The authors discuss the literature on surgery and COVID-19 under the following themes: emergency case triaging, elective surgery triaging, operating on a COVID-19-positive patient, surgical smoke, management of scarce resources, and restarting elective surgery.

Ligation of intersphincteric fistula tract (LIFT) in treatment of anal fistula: An updated systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression of the predictors of failure.

Background: Ligation of intersphincteric fistula tract has gained increasing popularity as a sphincter-sparing technique for complex anal fistula. The present review aimed to investigate the pooled success and complication rates of ligation of intersphincteric fistula tract in the published literature and to explore the risk factors for failure after ligation of intersphincteric fistula tract.

Methods: A Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses-compliant literature search was conducted.