Combined interdisciplinary treatment of metastatic bone lesions using 3D robot-assisted image-guided navigation : Embolization, biopsy, ablation, and surgery in one operative session.

Objective: To maximize local tumor control, stabilize affected bones, and preserve or replace joints with minimal interventional burden, thereby enhancing quality of life for empowered living.

Indications: Suitable for patients with bone metastases, particularly those with severe pain and/or fractures and appropriate life expectancy.

Contraindications: In primary bone tumors, refer to the sarcoma surgery team for evaluation of wide resection.

Between Scylla and Charybdis?-Health insurance claims-data to monitor quality of service delivery in ophthalmology.

The seminal work of Wennberg and Gittelsohn in 1973 emphasised the importance of health information for informed decision-making. This led to the creation of the Dartmouth Health Atlas in 1996, which has become an important resource for monitoring health services in the USA. The Dartmouth Health Atlas research revealed the existence of variation in health care without benefit to patients, and the dependence of health care use on local resource supply.

Surgical outcome improvement by shared decision-making: value of a preoperative multidisciplinary target clinic for the elderly in colorectal surgery.

Purpose: Frailty and comorbidities increase the risk of postoperative complications and raise treatment costs. Perioperative optimisation is shown to improve surgical outcomes for the elderly. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of introducing a multidisciplinary preoperative clinic for older patients (Colchester Older Persons' Evaluation for Surgery (COPES) clinic) undergoing major colorectal surgery.

Transforming ophthalmology in the digital century-new care models with added value for patients.

Ophthalmology faces many challenges in providing effective and meaningful eye care to an ever-increasing group of people. Even health systems that have so far been able to cope with the quantitative patient increase, due to their funding and the availability of highly qualified professionals, and improvements in practice routine efficiency, will be pushed to their limits. Further pressure on care will also be caused by new active substances for the largest group of patients with AMD, the so-called dry form.

Etiology, 3-Month Functional Outcome and Recurrent Events in Non-Traumatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage.

Background And Purpose: Knowledge about different etiologies of non-traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and their outcomes is scarce.

Methods: We assessed prevalence of pre-specified ICH etiologies and their association with outcomes in consecutive ICH patients enrolled in the prospective Swiss Stroke Registry (2014 to 2019).

Results: We included 2,650 patients (mean±standard deviation age 72±14 years, 46.

Temporary external fixation versus direct ORIF in complete displaced intra-articular radius fractures: a prospective comparative study.

Purpose: In complex distal radius fractures (DRF), both direct osteosynthesis (one-stage approach) and temporary external fixation as a bridge to definitive osteosynthesis (two-stage approach) are used. Studies directly comparing these two management options are lacking. This study aims to compare the two procedures with regard to complications, and radiological and functional outcomes.

An enzymatic method to rescue mesenchymal stem cells from clotted bone marrow samples.

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) - usually obtained from bone marrow - often require expansion culture. Our protocol uses clinical grade urokinase to degrade clots in the bone marrow and release MSCs for further use. This protocol provides a rapid and inexpensive alternative to bone marrow resampling.