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Autor:
John McNelis, Maria Castaldi, Jessica Pastoriza, Erin Lewis, Corrado P. Marini, Marie Ward, Afshin Parsikia
Publikováno v:
The American Surgeon. 87:68-76
Introduction Operative interventions for breast cancer are generally classified as clean surgeries. Surgical site infections (SSIs), while rare, do occur. This study sought to identify risk factors for SSI, using the National Surgical Quality Improve
Autor:
Adam, Berenson, Marisa, Doran, Brian, Strollo, Jeff, Burton, Michael, Townsend, Jonathan, Babin, Jeffanne, Millien, Russell, Brown, George, Fuhrman
Publikováno v:
The American Surgeon. :000313482211094
Background Percutaneous cholecystostomy tube (PCT) drainage is an effective management strategy for acute cholecystitis in patients medically unfit for surgery. However, little is known about the fate of patients managed by PCT. We conducted this stu
Publikováno v:
The American Surgeon. 80:595-599
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a silent liver disease that can lead to inflammation and subsequent scaring. If left untreated, cirrhosis may ensue. Morbidly obese patients are at an increased risk of NASH. We report the prevalence and predict
Autor:
Nicole M, Fierro, Navpreet K, Dhillon, Felix A, Yong, Tobias, Muniz, Anaar E, Siletz, Galinos, Barmparas, Eric J, Ley
Publikováno v:
The American Surgeon. 88:2464-2469
Introduction Although indications and outcomes for trauma patients who require resuscitative thoracotomies are well studied, little is known about how prehospital chest compressions support survival in patients who do not meet criteria for subsequent
Autor:
Pen Gao, Zhi Yun He, You Cheng Zhang, Xiao Dong Xu, Ling Yi Zhang, Ya Wu Zhang, Farah Bahrani-Mougeot, Jian Zhon Ma
Publikováno v:
The American Surgeon. 77:1584-1588
The goal of this study is to present the multiple institutions experience comparing the outcome of management between initial laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) surgeon and specialist as well as the outcome of different operative procedures to major b
Autor:
Galinos Barmparas, Kenji Inaba, Peep Talving, Agathoklis Konstantinidis, Leslie Kobayashi, Demetrios Demetriades, David Plurad, Lydia Lam
Publikováno v:
The American Surgeon. 77:702-707
Work-related injuries impose a significant burden on society. The goal of this study was to delineate the epidemiology and the effect of age on type and mortality after occupational injuries. Patients 16 years of age or older sustaining work-related
Autor:
Yoshinobu Shigekawa, Takashi Hama, Kazuhisa Uchiyama, Masaki Ueno, Hiroki Yamaue, Masao Ichinose, Shinya Hayami, Hideyuki Tamai, Katsunari Takifuji
Publikováno v:
The American Surgeon. 77:174-179
It is difficult to treat patients with cirrhosis-associated hepatitis C with pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) and ribavirin because of thrombocytopenia-related hypersplenism. Both safety and clinical efficacy were retrospectively analyzed for patients
Publikováno v:
The American Surgeon. 77:55-58
Diaphragmatic injuries (DIs) are difficult to diagnose and often go unrecognized after blunt trauma. We proposed that CT scan with coronal reconstruction (CTCR) improves the detection of small DIs missed by chest x-ray (CXR) and CT scan with axial vi
Publikováno v:
The American Surgeon. 68:1044-1047
Acute diverticulitis historically has been considered rare before the age of 40 but “virulent” when it does occur and frequently requiring emergency operation. Recent experience suggests that the demographics and management of this disease are ch
Publikováno v:
The American Surgeon. 65:555-559
Our objective was to determine the impact of abdominal ultrasound (US) on 1) the use of diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) and abdominal computed tomography (ACT) for diagnosing blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) and on 2) surgical resident training. The s