Objective: Long-term outcomes in civilian trauma patients requiring upper or lower extremity revascularization is poorly studied secondary to limitations of certain large databases and the nature of the patients in this specific vascular subset. This study reports on the experience and outcomes of a Level 1 trauma center that serves both an urban and a large rural population over a 20-year period to identify bypass outcomes and surveillance protocols.
Methods: Database of a single vascular group at an academic center was queried for trauma patients requiring upper or lower extremity revascularization between January 1, 2002, and June 30, 2022.
Introduction: Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR) is a rare congenital heart disease that complicates surgical management of pulmonary pathology.
Case Presentation: This case describes the successful management of a 73-year-old female with a left upper lobe adenocarcinoma and pre-operative discovery of left superior anomalous pulmonary venous return into the innominate vein. This patient presented to our clinic for evaluation regarding her newly discovered adenocarcinoma of the lung.
Introduction: Cosmetic breast surgery is commonly performed in the United States; 520,000 procedures of the total 1.8 million cosmetic surgical procedures performed in 2018 were breast related. Postoperative chronic pain, defined as lasting 3 or more months, has been reported in a wide variety of breast surgical procedures including breast augmentation, reduction mammaplasty, mastectomy, and mastectomy with reconstruction.
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