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Dis Colon Rectum
January 2025
Department of Surgery, Division of Colorectal Surgery, The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Background: Minimally invasive ventral rectopexy has widely become the preferred prolapse procedure. However there have been recent concerns regarding the safety of permanent synthetic mesh in the pelvis. Biologic grafts have also been commonly used as an alternative prosthesis, but data on their safety and the longevity of the prolapse repair have been lacking.
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January 2025
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH.
Success in academic plastic surgery is based on the traditional pillars of promotion: clinical excellence, teaching, research, leadership, and service to the university and community. The time commitment and workload for career advancement are highly demanding and, therefore, well-being is essential to avoid burnout. A congruent healthy work environment that meets institutional goals and surgeons' objectives can be established through inclusive, transparent, strategic, and operational planning.
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January 2025
Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic affected healthcare systems worldwide, disrupting elective surgeries including those for cancer treatment. This study examines the effects of the pandemic on outcomes of pancreatic cancer surgeries at a specialized high-volume surgery center.
Materials And Methods: This study compared surgical volume and outcomes of pancreas resections between the pre-pandemic (January 2019 to February 2020), early pandemic (March 2020 to January 2021), and late pandemic (February 2021 to December 2021) periods.
Pediatr Cardiol
January 2025
Pediatric Intensive Care Department, Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel.
Research establishing factors associated with duration of mechanical ventilation after Tetralogy of Fallot repair, is mainly based on population presenting at early infancy. There are fewer reports regarding repair after infancy, during childhood and preadolescence. To compare two groups of late TOF repair based on post-operative invasive mechanical ventilation duration and explore associations with pre-operative clinical markers of severity of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
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January 2025
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
Background: Obesity is a predisposing factor for serious comorbidities, particularly those related to elevated cardiovascular mortality. The atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) has been shown to be a useful indicator of patients with insulin resistance.
Aims: The aim of this study was to assess cardiovascular risk before and after surgical treatment of obesity.
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