Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy with the Senhance robotic platform: single center experience.

Objective: To describe our institution's initial experience with robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) using the Senhance robotic system.

Patients And Methods: A prospective analysis of 127 robot-assisted radical prostatectomies was performed. Patient demographics, preoperative and intraoperative parameters, histopathological examination results, intraoperative and early postoperative complications were obtained and analyzed.

Robotic cholecystectomy using Senhance robotic platform versus laparoscopic conventional cholecystectomy: a propensity score analysis.

Introduction: Our study objective was to evaluate differences in intraoperative and postoperative outcomes of robotic cholecystectomy (RC) using Senhance robotic platform vs laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC).

Material And Methods: A retrospective case - matched analysis was performed for all patients who underwent cholecystectomy from November 2018 to November 2019. RC cases were matched to LC.

Robotic gynaecological surgery using Senhance® robotic platform: Single centre experience with 100 cases.

Objective: In this article, we present the first 100 gynaecological robotic surgeries in Klaipeda University Hospital, Klaipeda, Lithuania.

Study Design: A prospective analysis was performed of 100 women age range 22-82, on average 52 years. Patients underwent various robotic gynaecological operations, 61 (61 %) procedures were robotic total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy.

Robotic surgery using Senhance robotic platform: single center experience with first 100 cases.

Until recently, robotic surgery has been associated only with the da Vinci robotic system. A novel Senhance robotic system (TransEnterix Surgical Inc., Morrisville, NC, USA) was introduced almost 5 years ago.

Predictors of postoperative hypocalcemia occurring after a total thyroidectomy: results of prospective multicenter study.

Background: Thyroid surgeries are among the most common operations performed in the world. Hypocalcemia following total thyroidectomy is a common complication that is sometimes difficult to correct. The aim of this study is to determine the risk factors for hypocalcemia following total thyroidectomy and their clinical value.

Assessment of Correlation between Chromosomal Radiosensitivity of Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes after Irradiation and Normal Tissue Side Effects for Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy.

Patients receiving identical radiation treatments experience different effects, from undetectable to severe, on normal tissues. A crucial factor of radiotherapy related side effects is individual radiosensitivity. It is difficult to spare surrounding normal tissues delivering radiation to cancer cells during radiotherapy.

Twenty years trends in mortality rates from stroke in Klaipeda.

Background: During the past decades, mortality from stroke decreased in many western European countries; however, changes concerning long-term stroke mortality in eastern European countries are less evident.

Objective: To assess age- and gender-specific trends in stroke mortality in Klaipeda (Lithuania) from 1994 to 2013.

Design: Descriptive epidemiological study.

Ischemic stroke functional outcomes are independently associated with C-reactive protein concentrations and cognitive outcomes with triiodothyronine concentrations: a pilot study.

Elevated concentrations of C-reactive protein (CRP) and decreased concentrations of triiodothyronine (T3) were shown to predict poor outcomes in patients with stroke. However, the prognostic value of CRP and T3 has not been studied simultaneously in relation to stroke functional and cognitive outcomes despite of close interaction between inflammatory markers and thyroid function. We evaluated the association of thyroid hormone and CRP concentrations with immediate outcomes after ischemic stroke.

Stroke mortality trends in the population of Klaipėda from 1994 to 2008.

Unlabelled: The objective of the study was to evaluate the trends in stroke mortality in the population of Klaipėda aged 35-79 years from 1994 to 2008.

Material And Methods: Mortality data on all permanent residents of Klaipėda aged 35-79 years who died from stroke in 1994-2008 were gathered for the study. All death certificates of permanent residents of Klaipėda aged 35-79 years who died during 1994-2008 were examined in this study.

Focused versus conventional parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism: a prospective, randomized, blinded trial.

Background: For many years bilateral neck exploration (BNE) was the gold standard operation for primary hyperparathyroidism (pPHP). With advances in preoperative pathological gland localization and intraoperative parathyroid hormone (IPTH) monitoring, minimally invasive approaches have evolved. This study is aimed to compare BNE and focused parathyroidectomy (FP) in a prospective, randomized, blind trial.

Introduction of total hip arthroplasty in Lithuania: results from the first 10 years.

Background: Hip replacement as a routine procedure was introduced in Lithuania in 1991. At Klaipeda Hospital, one of the 2 hospitals at which this was begun, the arthroplasties were followed prospectively from the start. This study concerns the 10-year results from a country with no previous experience of hip replacement.

[Hip revision arthroplasty (long-term results)].

Objective: To evaluate the risk factors after total hip replacement arthroplasty for rerevision and to analyze complications after hip revision surgery.

Material And Methods: We obtained data from 117 hip revisions and 12 hip rerevision arthroplasties performed in 1992-2001 in the Department of Orthopedics of Klaipeda Hospital. Special forms were filled in for every patient who participated in the study.

[Early results of total ankle arthroplasty].

Unlabelled: Objective of the study was to evaluate total ankle arthroplasty as the treatment of choice for ankle arthritis; to analyze variables' influence upon early results after total ankle arthroplasty; and to determine early and late postoperative complications and the ways to avoid them.

Material And Methods: We evaluated clinical results of 18 patients (out of 23 operated patients), for whom total ankle replacement was performed in 1998-2003. Uncemented Scandinavian Total Ankle Replacement (WLink, Germany) endoprosthesis was used in all cases.

[Review and results of our first ureteroscopy experience at the Klaipeda Hospital].

Objective: To estimate an experience of our first ureteroscopic procedures.

Material And Methods: The data of 65 patients, who underwent ureteroscopy in Klaipeda Hospital during period 2000 August - 2002 February were analyzed. The indications were: obstructive ureteral stones after not successful extracorporeal lithotripsy, rigid ureteral stones, radionegative ureteral stones and ureteral strictures.

[Results of the treatment of kidney and ureteral stones by the method of extracorpored shock wave lithotripsy at the Klaipeda Hospital].

review the cases, which are cured by extracorpored shock wave lithotripsy using the device of third generation "Lithostar Multiline" (Germany). There are data of 603 patients treated by extracorpored shock wave lithotripsy. Almost a thousand (979) renal stones' fragmentations were performed for 271 (45%) patients.