Publications by authors named "S C Boike"
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- Distal tibia shaft fractures often accompany posterior malleolar fractures (PMFs), leading to routine preoperative ankle CT scans to assess damage.
- A study analyzed data from 124 patients with these fractures, comparing outcomes between those who received CT scans and those who did not, but found no significant differences in key outcomes.
- While CT scans helped identify some PMFs that weren't visible on regular x-rays, they did not improve surgical efficiency or reduce complications related to PMFs.
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- Pulmonary hypertension (PH) increases blood pressure in pulmonary arteries, leading to serious complications like low oxygen delivery, and this study examines its effects on patients with congestive heart failure after a heart attack (STEMI).
- Researchers analyzed data from nearly 27,000 STEMI patients (with 95 having group II PH) to evaluate mortality rates and other health outcomes using the National Inpatient Sample database from 2017 to 2020.
- The findings indicated that patients with GIIPH had significantly higher in-hospital mortality rates and longer hospital stays compared to those without PH, underscoring the negative impact of GIIPH on health and economic outcomes.
Background: Posterior malleolar involvement can drastically affect patient outcomes. Literature has supported the use of preoperative Computed Tomography (CT) to assess posterior malleolar fracture morphology. The purpose of this study is to determine whether preoperative CT is associated with significant improvement in surgical time, postoperative complications, reoperation rates in trimalleolar ankle fractures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present a challenging case of disseminated infection manifesting as brain and skin abscesses. is an important potential pathogen to consider in patients with a relevant travel history to endemic regions or atypical presentations, such as brain and skin abscesses. About one-third of patients with infections are immunocompetent, and their symptoms are nonspecific.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Though fracture is known complication of stenting, pseudoaneurysm asscoiated with stent fracture is an extremely rare complication. This has previoulsy been described to occur at least one or more years following initial stent placement. Here we present a case of multi-site stent fracture leading to two separate SFA pseudoaneurysms within one year of placement, successfully treated with covered stents.
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