[Pancreatic cystic neoplasms: work-up and surveillance].

Whereas pancreatic masses are often difficult to detect with transabdominal ultrasound, cross-sectional imaging features high sensitivity for the pancreatic tumors. However, increasing availability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has led to a surge in the detection of benign or precancerous pancreatic lesions. The medical history is characteristic only for two entities.

Noise in the operating room coincides with surgical difficulty.

Background: Noise in the operating room has been shown to distract the surgical team and to be associated with postoperative complications. It is, however, unclear whether complications after noisy operations are the result of objective or subjective surgical difficulty or the consequence of distraction of the operating room team by noise.

Methods: Noise level measurements were prospectively performed during operations in four Swiss hospitals.

A Predictive Noninvasive Single-Nucleotide Variation-Based Biomarker Signature for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer: Protocol for a Prospective Validation Study.

Background: Single-nucleotide variations (SNVs; formerly SNPs) are inherited genetic variants that can be easily determined in routine clinical practice using a simple blood or saliva test. SNVs have potential to serve as noninvasive biomarkers for predicting cancer-specific patient outcomes after resection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Two recent analyses led to the identification and validation of three SNVs in the CD44 and CHI3L2 genes (rs187115, rs353630, and rs684559), which can be used as predictive biomarkers to help select patients most likely to benefit from pancreatic resection.

Interdisciplinary approach in emergency revascularization and treatment for acute mesenteric ischemia.

Background: Mesenteric ischemia is associated with poor outcome and high overall mortality. The aim was to analyze an interdisciplinary treatment approach of vascular and visceral specialists focusing on the in-hospital outcome and follow-up in patients with acute and acute-on-chronic mesenteric ischemia.

Methods: From 2010 until 2017, 26 consecutive patients with acute or acute on chronic mesenteric ischemia were treated by an interdisciplinary team.

Perception of semiquantitative terms in surgery.

Objective: To assess whether semiquantitative terms (eg, "often" or "rare"), which are often used for achieving informed consent, have the same meaning for laypersons and physicians.

Background: To obtain informed consent, physicians have to make their patients aware of the risks of an operation. Thereby, semiquantitative terms are often used.

Relation of depression to various markers of coagulation and fibrinolysis in patients with and without coronary artery disease.

Background: It has been suggested that changes in blood coagulation and fibrinolysis might explain the observed association between depression and coronary artery disease (CAD). So far, only a few coagulation factors have been investigated in this regard, and the results were not consistent.

Design: The aim of our study was to analyse a broad range of coagulation and fibrinolytic factors, with emphasis on factors directly involved in clot formation and degradation or reflecting coagulation activation, in patients with CAD and controls without CAD, as assessed by coronary angiography, who also underwent a diagnostic procedure for depression.