Publications by authors named "Salvadora Delgado"

Aim: Perioperative bladder catheterization is a controversial issue. Most current recommendations are based on data from open surgery extrapolated to enhanced recovery after surgery or fast-track programmes ranging between 24 and 48 h. The aim of this study is to provide a rationale for reducing catheterization time while at the same time avoiding acute urine retention (AUR), in patients undergoing scheduled laparoscopic colon surgery.

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Background: Transanal total mesorectal excision (TaTME) is a minimally invasive surgical technique that tries to avoid conversion to open surgery. However, specific intraoperative complications and local recurrences have cast some doubt on the suitability of the technique. The primary endpoint of the present study was a composite outcome of conversion surgery.

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Purpose: Bowel dysfunction after rectal cancer surgery may significantly affect the quality of life. Our study aimed to estimate the incidence and characterize the low anterior resection syndrome (LARS).

Methods: Prospective evaluation of patients treated with anterior resection for rectal cancer at two hospitals followed for 12 months after ileostomy reversal.

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine if the prognostic value of the preoperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) could be modified by the presence of postoperative complications (POC) and their severity in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma resected with curative intent.

Methods: A retrospective study based on a prospective database of patients with resectable gastric adenocarcinoma treated with radical intention (R0) between January 1998 and February 2012. The primary endpoint was overall survival according to preoperative peripheral blood NLR and postoperative complications.

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Persistent activation of the innate immune system greatly influences the risk for developing metabolic complications associated with obesity. In this study, we explored the therapeutic potential of the specialized proresolving mediator (SPM) resolvin D1 (RvD1) to actively promote the resolution of inflammation in human visceral adipose tissue from obese (Ob) patients. Using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry-based metabololipidomic analysis, we identified unbalanced production of SPMs (i.

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Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programs result in the detection of early-stage asymptomatic carcinomas suitable to be surgically cured. Lymph nodes (LN) from early CRC are usually small and may be difficult to collect. Still, at least 12 LNs should be analyzed from colectomies, to ensure a reliable pN0 stage.

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Obesity induces white adipose tissue (WAT) dysfunction characterized by unremitting inflammation and fibrosis, impaired adaptive thermogenesis and increased lipolysis. Prostaglandins (PGs) are powerful lipid mediators that influence the homeostasis of several organs and tissues. The aim of the current study was to explore the regulatory actions of PGs in human omental WAT collected from obese patients undergoing laparoscopic bariatric surgery.

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Background And Study Aims: On-demand endoscopic insufflation during natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) adversely affects microcirculatory blood flow (MBF), even with low mean intra-abdominal pressure, suggesting that shear stress caused by time-varying flow fluctuations has a great impact on microcirculation. As shear stress is inversely related to vascular diameter, nitric oxide (NO) production acts as a brake to vasoconstriction.

Objective: To assess whether pretreatment by NO synthesis modulators protects gastrointestinal MBF during transgastric peritoneoscopy.

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Purpose: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of preoperative intravenous (IV) ferric carboxymaltose (FCM) administration vs. no-IV iron in colon cancer (CC) anemic patients undergoing elective surgery with curative intention.

Methods: This was a multicenter, observational study including two cohorts of consecutive CC anemic patients: the no-IV iron treatment group was obtained retrospectively while FCM-treated patients were recorded prospectively.

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Context: Factors underlying variable weight loss (WL) after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) are poorly understood.

Objective: Our objective was to gain insight on the role of gastrointestinal hormones on poor WL maintenance (P-WLM) following RYGB.

Design And Patients: First, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), peptide YY (PYY), and ghrelin responses to a standardized mixed liquid meal (SMLM) were compared between subjects with good WL (G-WL, n = 32) or P-WLM (n = 22).

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Background: Ferric Carboxymaltose (FCM), Iron Sucrose (IS) and Oral Iron (OI) are alternative treatments for preoperative anaemia.

Objective: To compare the cost implications, using a cost-minimization analysis, of three alternatives: FCM vs. IS vs.

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Background And Aims: On-demand insufflation during endoscopic peritoneoscopy causes wide variations in intra-abdominal pressure. Its effects on splanchnic microcirculation may differ from those of steady intra-abdominal pressure, because pressure characteristics affect crucial intravascular hemodynamic forces--pressure and shear--adapting flow to local metabolic needs. Our aim was to assess the effect of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) peritoneoscopy on splanchnic microcirculatory blood flow.

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Background: The anatomic difficulties that we have to deal with in open surgery for rectal cancer have not been overcome with the laparoscopic approach. In the search for a solution, a change of concept arose: approaching the rectum from below. The main objectives of this study were to show the potential advantages of the hybrid transabdominal-transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME).

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Purpose: Our goal was to assess the accuracy of measuring cardiac output (CO) by the FloTrac/Vigileo (CO(V)) device in comparison with thermodilution technique through pulmonary artery catheterization (PAC(TD)) in morbidly obese patients.

Material And Methods: Cardiac output in 8 morbidly obese patients was assessed twice at upright and lying position breathing ambient air. At least 4 consecutive CO measurements with 10 mL of ice-cold saline injections were performed each time.

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Background: In patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), laparoscopic pelvic dissection for IPAA is not always straightforward: often, a hand-assistance incision is used to complete the proctectomy, lengthening operative times. Hybrid NOSE and NOTES are emerging as an alternative approach to conventional laparoscopy. We believe that UC patients could benefit from this new hybrid approach in three ways: by easing the proctectomy as performed down to up, avoiding additional incisions and decreasing surgical times.

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Objectives: Measurement of the component of fibrosis in Crohn's disease (CD) may have important therapeutic implications. The aim of this study was to characterize the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) findings that are differentially associated with the presence of fibrosis and those associated with inflammatory activity, using the pathological analysis of surgically resected intestinal lesions as reference standard.

Methods: MRI studies with identical imaging protocol of 41 CD patients who underwent elective bowel resection within 4 months before surgery were reviewed.

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Aim: To evaluate the long-term results of conventional chemoradiotherapy and laparoscopic mesorectal excision in rectal adenocarcinoma patients without adjuvant therapy.

Methods: Patients with biopsy-proven adenocarcinoma of the rectum staged cT3-T4 by endoscopic ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging received neoadjuvant continuous infusion of 5-fluorouracil for five weeks and concomitant radiotherapy. Laparoscopic surgery was planned after 5-8 wk.

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Background: Obesity is a global and growing public health problem. Bariatric surgery (BS) is indicated in patients with morbid obesity. To our knowledge, the effects of morbid obesity and BS on ventilation/perfusion (V.

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Background: The need for preoperative chemoradiation or short-course radiation in all T3 rectal tumors is a controversial issue. A multicenter phase II trial was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant capecitabine and oxaliplatin combined with bevacizumab in patients with intermediate-risk rectal adenocarcinoma.

Methods: We recruited 46 patients with T3 rectal adenocarcinoma selected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) who were candidates for (R0) resection located in the middle third with clear mesorectal fascia and who were selected by pelvic MRI.

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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare short-term results obtained with transanal total mesorectal excision (TME) and laparoscopic surgery.

Background: Transanal TME appears as an alternative in the treatment of rectal cancer and other rectal disease. Natural orifices transluminal endoscopic surgery using the rectum as access in colorectal surgery is intuitively better suited than other access routes.

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One of the most controversial areas in laparoscopic approach is rectal cancer, not only because of the surgical technique but of the best approach to do it. The transanal approach arises like a new alternative for rectal cancer and other rectal pathologies due to solve some of the problems that we can find in conventional laparoscopic approach, mainly in low rectal cancer for the section of the rectum and distal margin. The first case of rectal cancer surgery by transanal approach was published in 2009.

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Background: There is scarce information about predictive factors of hypertension (HT) remission after bariatric surgery (BS). The aims of this study were to determine the clinical characteristics differentiating obese patients with and without HT and to evaluate the predictive factors associated with the risk of persistence of HT after BS.

Patients And Methods: From January 2007 to December 2009, a review of patients who had undergone BS was performed.

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