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Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
January 2025
From the Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY.
Background: Ventral hernia repair (VHR) is a common procedure performed on a comorbid patient population at risk for complications, necessitating effective preoperative risk assessment. Previous research suggests that frailty better predicts adverse outcomes compared with historical risk proxies including age. We examined the association between frailty as measured by the 5-factor modified frailty index and postoperative complications following VHR as reported in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database.
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January 2025
From the Department of Radiology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, China (Q.S., P.L., J.Z.); and Department of Diagnostic, Molecular, and Interventional Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1 Gustave L. Levy Pl, New York, NY 10029 (Q.S., P.L., R.Y., D.F.Y., C.I.H.).
Background Angiolymphatic invasion (ALI) is an important prognostic indicator in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, few studies focus on radiologic features for predicting ALI in patients with early-stage NSCLCs 30 mm or smaller. Purpose To identify radiologic features for predicting ALI in NSCLCs 30 mm or smaller in maximum diameter.
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December 2024
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Objective: Preoperative home based pulmonary rehabilitation (HPR) can reduce postoperative complications in lung surgery patients. This study aimed to investigate the level of adherence to a preoperative HPR programme in high risk patients awaiting lung surgery, and factors influencing adherence.
Design: A mixed methods explanatory sequential design consisting of a quantitative questionnaire survey and a qualitative interview study.
Perioper Med (Lond)
January 2025
Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Background: Smoking is the leading single cause of preventable death in England and also increases the risk of postoperative complications. The preoperative period is a potential opportunity to introduce smoking cessation interventions to smokers to reduce the risk of postoperative complications. A systematic search was conducted to find all studies that investigated the effectiveness of preoperative smoking cessation interventions.
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January 2025
Department of Thoracic Surgery, the Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang050011, China.
To explore the related risk factors of diaphragmatic hernia after thoraco-laparoscopic minimally invasive Mckeown esophagectomy (MIME). This is a retrospective controlled study. A retrospective analysis was conducted on the clinical data of patients who underwent MIME at the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, from January 2016 to December 2023.
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