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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Surgical complication"”.
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Operative Risk Factors in Gastric Cancer Surgery for Elderly Patients
… and we analyzed the correlation between surgical outcomes and age retrospectively. We defined that elderly was patients with over 65 year old. Results: Mean age of all patients was 58.3 year old, and complications were occurred in 87 cases (14.7%). Most common complication was wound …
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30 day outcomes of 1000 consecutive laparoscopic cholecystectomies across four Cape Metropole hospitals in Cape Town
… mortality, length of stay, readmissions and complications according to the Clavien-Dindo Classification system. Methods: A retrospective review of a prospective database was performed. The data collection was collected between September 2019 and July 2022. Relative clinical, operative …
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Is psoas muscle area as determined by cross-sectional measurement an accurate predictor of peri-operative outcomes in adenocarcinoma of the upper gastrointestinal tract?
… muscle area has been associated with poorer surgical outcomes. Our hypothesis is that patients with gastric cancer and lower psoas muscle area have poorer short-term surgical outcomes. Methods Individuals with gastric cancer were assessed and total psoas muscle area (TPA) in mm2 was measured …
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Minimally Invasive, Integrated Endoscopic Hemilaminectomy for Hansen Type I Intervertebral Disc Extrusion in Chondrodystrophic Dogs
… decompression. The same dog had a significant surgical complication of iatrogenic damage to the spinal cord during the minimally invasive approach. The other 4 dogs had no complications and achieved adequate spinal cord decompression. Three dogs eventually returned to normal neurologic status …
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Initial experience of intraoperative identification of parathyroid glands with elastic scattering spectroscopy
… glands during a thyroidectomy is a well-known surgical complication. The current gold standard intraoperative method for identifying parathyroid glands is surgical judgment; other methods are limited in both their sensitivity and convenience. There is a clear need for an objective diagnostic …
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Immunomodulatory biomaterials to promote early transplant integration and wound healing
Ongoing advances in transplantation surgical techniques, together with improvements in immunosuppression regimens, have greatly reduced the rate of postoperative morbidity and graft loss. Despite these advances, wound complications due to systemic immunosuppression are a common post-transplant …
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EVALUATION OF LONG-TERM EFFICACY OF FORCED ERUPTED TEETH FOR RESTORATIVE PURPOSES – A CLINICAL RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
… required to restore the teeth, 5) pre/post-surgical complication, and 6) associations between clinician training and complication rate. Results: Twenty-five (25) participants with a total of thirty-six (36) orthodontically extruded teeth were included in the study. Mean activation time was …
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Autologous intestinal lengthening procedures for short bowel syndrome. A systematic review of clinical effectiveness and an assessment of their utility for adult and paediatric patients with intestinal failure in the UK
… bowel syndrome (SBS) results from surgical resection, congenital defector disease-associated loss of absorption and is characterized by the inabilityto maintain protein-energy, fluid, electrolyte or micronutrient balances whenon a conventionally accepted, normal diet 1 . In order to …
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Building a Better Scar: Re-engineering Extracellular Matrix Structure in Dermal Scars
Introduction Cutaneous scars represent a common surgical complication, yet no effective drug therapy for scar treatment currently exists despite huge patient and physician demand. A connexin 43 (Cx43) carboxyl terminus (CT) mimetic peptide, alpha Connexin Carboxy-Terminus 1 (αCT1), has demonstrated …
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Factores de riesgo asociados a complicaciones en cirugía de reconstrucción de pared abdominal: revisión sistematizada de la literatura
Introducción: Los costos generados por la corrección de las eventraciones abdominales no solo se deben a técnicas quirúrgicas más complejas y el uso de materiales protésicos costosos. La evolución de estas técnicas quirúrgicas ha permitido tener procedimientos con reconstrucciones más fisiológicas, …