Five-Minute Heart Rate Profile Predicts Surgical Arrhythmia
A secondary analysis of the VitalDB Arrhythmia Database shows that a five-minute intraoperative heart rate variability profile can predict significant ...
Tag: Surgery
Stomach Cancer Surgery Costs Vary by Tumor Site in China
The research, published in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, analyzed billing data from 1,102 inpatients at a tertiary hospital between ...
Scoping Review Maps Simulation-Based Team Training in Surgery
A new scoping review published in Advances in Simulation provides a comprehensive map of how simulation-enhanced interprofessional education is currently ...
Intensive Workshop Trains Ugandan Surgical Residents in Hernia Repair Competency
A longitudinal study in Uganda evaluated hernia repair skill retention among eight surgical trainees after a focused workshop.
Research report: Return‐To‐Work and Working Status After Surgery for Gastric and Esophageal Cancer: A Prospective Observational Study
A prospective Japanese study found 78.5 percent of employed gastric and esophageal cancer surgery patients were working 18 months after ...
Bariatric Surgery Tied to Improved Fertility-Sparing Cancer Therapy in Retrospective Study
In a retrospective cohort study of 25 morbidly obese women undergoing fertility-sparing treatment for endometrial cancer or atypical hyperplasia, bariatric ...
Hormone replacement therapy after cervical cancer treatment: a Japanese claims-based cohort study
A Japanese claims-based cohort study of 1,520 women treated for cervical cancer found that only 22.0 percent started hormone replacement ...
Surgery alone may often be enough for asymptomatic tuberculosis lung nodules
A retrospective Chinese cohort study found no significant survival benefit from postoperative anti-tuberculosis drugs after complete resection of asymptomatic tuberculous ...
Many Colorectal Cancer Patients Are Malnourished Before Surgery, Iranian Study Finds
A cross-sectional study of 105 Iranian colorectal cancer patients found that 54.3% had moderate-to-severe malnutrition and 40% faced critical nutritional ...
Kidney Stone Surgery Trial Retracted Over Ethics Approval and Data Concerns
A 2022 randomized trial comparing RIRS and MINI-PCNL for 20–30 mm kidney stones has been retracted over unresolved ethical approval ...
LDCT Spots Lung Cancer Recurrence Early, but Misses Brain and Bone
A retrospective cohort study of 150 postoperative lung cancer patients found that LDCT-detected recurrences clustered in the first year after ...
Rare Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma Shows Distinct Imaging Signature in 101-Patient Multicenter Study
A multicenter retrospective study of 101 patients defines the CT, MRI and PET/CT features of primary pulmonary artery sarcoma and ...
Surgery Still Dominates Early Stage Melanoma Care, but Higher-Stage Patients Face Mounting Treatment Burden
A four-site US chart review of 398 patients with stage IB–IIC melanoma found predominantly surgical management, with systemic therapy and ...
UK study maps treatment patterns and outcomes in loco-regional recurrent melanoma
A UK retrospective cohort study of 133 patients with loco-regional recurrent melanoma found surgery was the predominant treatment, with immunotherapy ...
Mount Sinai wins $4 million NIH grant to predict kidney injury after surgery
Mount Sinai has received a five-year, approximately $4 million NIH grant to develop AI models that predict and help prevent ...
Weight-loss surgery sustains diabetes remission for over a decade, trial shows
In the longest-running randomized trial of metabolic surgery for type 2 diabetes, 58% of surgical patients achieved medication-free remission over ...
Niger retrospective cohort of presumed typhoid perforations finds 11.2% mortality
A retrospective study of 2,931 surgically treated presumed typhoid ileal perforations in Niger found an 11.2% in-hospital mortality rate, with ...
Unstable Regulatory T Cells Weaken the Blood–Brain Barrier After Surgery
A study in Cell Death Discovery links perioperative destabilization of regulatory T cells to blood–brain barrier disruption through a β-catenin–tight ...
Low Vitamin D After Bariatric Surgery Tracks With Fat-Infiltrated Muscle
A prospective cohort study of 113 bariatric surgery patients finds that vitamin D deficiency persists in nearly three quarters of ...
Remimazolam lowers hypotension but does not prevent postoperative delirium in older adults
A narrative review finds that remimazolam generally causes less hypotension than propofol in older surgical patients, but randomized evidence does ...
