Publications by authors named "Takashi Kumode"
Background: To prevent task accumulation on certain divisions, our institution developed a unique system of allocating inpatient treatment of COVID-19 patients to doctors who were not specialized in respiratory infections. The objective of this study was to investigate whether surgeons can be involved in the COVID-19 inpatient treatment without negatively affecting patient outcome, and how such involvement can affect the wellbeing of surgeons.
Methods: There were 300 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and hospitalized from January to June 2021, and 160 of them were treated by the redeployed doctors.
Article Synopsis
- - A study reviewed the outcomes of gastrojejunostomy (GJ) for malignant gastric outlet obstruction in elderly patients (≥ 80 years) and compared them to younger patients to assess complications and survival rates.
- - The findings revealed that older patients experienced more surgical complications, such as delayed gastric emptying and aspiration pneumonia, leading to higher mortality, with a median survival time of less than 2 months post-surgery.
- - It was suggested that GJ is not the ideal treatment option for very elderly patients with gastric cancer and that using an antiperistaltic anastomosis with partial stomach partitioning could help reduce complications.
Background: Although laparoscopic incisional hernia repair, especially laparoscopic intraperitoneal onlay mesh, is a widely used technique, it can cause serious complications, including mesh erosion, adhesive bowel obstruction, and chronic pain. The enhanced-view totally extraperitoneal (eTEP) technique has been reported to prevent such complications by placing the mesh in the retrorectus space. Here, we report the case of a patient with post-robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RARP) incisional hernia repaired using the eTEP technique.
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