Catheter Free Day of Surgery Discharge vs Overnight Observation Following Artificial Urinary Sphincter Placement.

Introduction To confirm the safety and examine outcomes of a day of surgery discharge following artificial urinary sphincter implantation in a population discharged without a catheter. Methods We retrospectively identified 110 patients, 31 of whom were discharged on the day of surgery, from a single surgeon following artificial urinary sphincter implantation. After institutional board review approval, patient charts were reviewed capturing demographics as well as three, thirty, and ninety-day outcomes.

An evaluation of the safety and preliminary efficacy of peri- and post-operative treprostinil in preventing ischemia and reperfusion injury in adult orthotopic liver transplant recipients.

Background: Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is the only treatment option for various end-stage liver diseases. Ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injury is one of the unavoidable complications/conditions in OLT. In 2019, a total of 8896 livers were transplanted of which >94% organs were procured from deceased donors.

Percutaneous thermal ablation for treatment of osteoid osteoma: a systematic review and analysis.

Objective: Although radiofrequency ablation is well validated for treatment of osteoid osteoma, newer technologies, namely cryoablation, have been less thoroughly studied. The purpose is to perform a systematic review and pooled analysis of percutaneous ablation technologies for treatment of osteoid osteoma with subset analysis of intra-articular and spinal tumors.

Material And Methods: A total of 36 of 79 identified manuscripts met inclusion criteria, comprising 1863 ablations in 1798 patients.

Randomized Phase II Study Evaluating Palbociclib in Addition to Letrozole as Neoadjuvant Therapy in Estrogen Receptor-Positive Early Breast Cancer: PALLET Trial.

Purpose: CDK4/6 inhibitors are used to treat estrogen receptor (ER)-positive metastatic breast cancer (BC) in combination with endocrine therapy. PALLET is a phase II randomized trial that evaluated the effects of combination palbociclib plus letrozole as neoadjuvant therapy.

Patients And Methods: Postmenopausal women with ER-positive primary BC and tumors greater than or equal to 2.

Prediction of disease relapse in a cohort of paediatric patients with localized scleroderma.

Background: Localized scleroderma (LS) is an autoimmune condition of the skin and underlying tissue. Active or recurring disease can lead to cumulative tissue damage, especially in paediatric-onset disease.

Objectives: To highlight the rate of relapse of LS activity in a cohort of paediatric patients and to evaluate for potential clinical and laboratory predictors of disease relapse.

Aortic root replacement with cryopreserved homograft for infective endocarditis in the modern North American opioid epidemic.

Objective: To study mid-term survival in patients with infective endocarditis as a result of IV drug use undergoing aortic root replacement with cryopreserved aortic homograft.

Methods: Patients undergoing aortic root homograft replacement from 2011-2017 were studied retrospectively. Aortic root replacement was performed using a modified Bentall technique.

Fatal air embolism following local anaesthetisation: does needle size matter?

A 76--year--old male cigarette smoker presented with a 2-week history of cough and haemoptysis. Chest CT on admission revealed multiple new lung nodules concerning for malignancy. CT--guided biopsy of the nodule in left lower lobe was attempted in prone oblique position for tissue diagnosis.

Operative treatment of cervical myelopathy: cervical laminoplasty.

Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a degenerative process which may result in clinical signs and symptoms which require surgical intervention. Many treatment options have been proposed with various degrees of technical difficulty and technique sensitive benefits. We review laminoplasty as a motion-sparing posterior decompressive method.

Immunohistochemical staining of precursor forms of prostate-specific antigen (proPSA) in metastatic prostate cancer.

Precursors of prostate-specific antigen (proPSA) have been previously shown to be more concentrated in prostate cancer tissue. This study characterizes the immunohistochemical staining (IHS) of proPSA forms in metastatic prostate cancer compared with prostate specific antigen (PSA) and prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP). A tissue microarray, consisting of 74 cases of metastatic prostate carcinoma and control tissues, was used.

Zygomycosis in solid organ transplant recipients in a tertiary transplant center and review of the literature.

Zygomycetes are ubiquitous fungi that can cause invasive disease associated with high mortality. We report 10 solid organ transplant recipients with zygomycosis (incidence 2 per 1000) and reviewed 106 cases in the English-language literature. These included renal (n = 73), heart (n = 16), lung (n = 4), heart/lung (n = 2), liver (n = 19) and kidney/pancreas (n = 2) transplant recipients.

Comparison of two different techniques of reperfusion in adult orthotopic liver transplantation.

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to determine the impact of two reperfusion techniques on the peri-operative hemodynamic changes and early post-operative graft function of adult patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation.

Material And Methods: From June 2003 to May 2004, 50 consecutive liver transplants were performed and divided into two groups: group A, 25 patients, portal vein flush with 500 cm(3) of Ringer's lactate without vena caval venting. Group B, 25 patients, vena caval venting with no portal vein flush.

AHRA staff utilization survey measures technologist productivity.

The AHRA Staff Utilization Survey is an increasingly valuable reference for administrators trying to increase productivity, maintain patient satisfaction and maintain a reasonable working environment for their employees. This article presents highlights of the full survey, which will be published separately and mailed to all AHRA members in July. The highlights are presented in text, tables and full-color charts.