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Showing 1 to 20 of 150 for “"pre-operative"”.
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Improving Pre-Operative Education Among Pediatric Tonsillectomy Patients
… is a lack of adequate education regarding post-operative care. Written education packets were designed to emphasize key factors but to reduce excess information with the aim of reducing the number of repeat post-op phone calls by 10% over by December 2015, 25% March 2015, and 50% by May 2015. …
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A Study of Translation of Measure and Prevalence of Pre-operative Anxiety, and Patients’ Preference of Non-Pharmaceutical Pre-operative Anxiety Reduction Intervention in Nigeria
Background: Pre-operative anxiety remains a serious problem affecting surgical patients. The prevalence rate ranges between 60% to 80% percent among western surgical patients. Nothing is known about the prevalence of pre-operative anxiety among Nigerian Hausa speaking elective surgical patients. It …
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Pre-operative diagnosis of thyroid cancer : clinical, radiological and pathological correlation
Primary Aim: assess the accuracy of pre operative diagnosis of thyroid cancer in a single centre. Secondary Aims: evaluate the impact of preoperative diagnosis on surgical interventions for thyroid carcinoma; develop locally applicable guidelines for patients with nodular disease of the thyroid.
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Which pre-operative findings translate to a positive intra-operative cholangiogram?
… The most common investigations used in the pre-operative diagnosis of choledocholithiasis are ultrasound and liver function tests (LFTs). These modalities have a low sensitivity for detecting common bile duct stones amongst the intermediate-risk groups. Aim: Identify pre-operative findings …
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Pre-operative Risk Factors for Arteriovenous Fistula Failure in the Haemodialysis Population
… identified, such as diabetes, age, gender and pre-operative vessel diameters. In this work, existing and potential risk-factors are investigated in a local cohort, with the ultimate aim of identifying new risk-factors for AVF failure, and opening new pathways for risk-factor identification in …
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Pre-operative Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Application to Tumour Resection by Awake Craniotomy
… while simultaneously sparing healthy cortex. Pre-operative and intra-operative brain mapping techniques are capable of localizing eloquent cortex, and are thus employed to facilitate the surgical decisions. Although direct cortical stimulation (DCS) remains the gold standard intra-operative …
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Registration of pre-operative lung cancer PET/CT scans with post-operative histopathology images
… framework for registering in vivo and post-operative scans from lung cancer patients, in order to have a global, pathology-validated multimodality map of the tumour and its surroundings.;Initial experiments were performed on tissue-mimicking phantoms, to test different shape reconstruction …
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Pre-operative ablative radiotherapy in combination with immunotherapy and novel agents in pancreatic cancer
… urgently needed to improve clinical outcome. In pre-clinical models, radiotherapy (RT) is associated with a cascade of immune-modulatory changes within the tumour microenvironment (TME), and combining radiotherapy with immune checkpoint blockade can enhance T cell infiltration and T cell mediated …
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Pre-operative localization and surgical outcomes for primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT): An 11-year review at a South African hospital
… focused parathyroid gland exploration guided by pre-operative imaging is associated with less morbidity compared to a bilateral approach. Focused explorations may target either the side or the specific parathyroid gland identified. Aim: The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy …
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The association of early marginal bone loss relative to the implant restorative platform and pre-operative site-specific factors: retrospective cohort
… to evaluate the association of several pre-surgical variables. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Eighty-seven patients with a total of 118 implants, were evaluated in this retrospective cohort. Age of patients varied between 23 to 80 years. Two implant systems were included: Nobel Biocare and …
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Does 3DMR Provide Equivalent Information As 3DCT for the Pre-Operative Evaluation of Adult Hip Pain Conditions of Femoroacetabular Impingement and Hip Dysplasia?
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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The application of the Pre-operative Intrusive Thoughts Inventory (Crockett et al. 2007) in an elective hernia repair surgery population & clinical research portfolio
… emotional distress prior to surgery. Measures of pre-operative anxiety have been developed and include the Pre-operative Intrusive Thoughts Inventory (PITI). The aim of the present study is to evaluate the application of the PITI in a mid- to older-adult population awaiting elective hernia repair. …
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Pre-operative determination of Carcinoembryonic Antigen (p-CEA) as an independent prognostic factor of Disease Free Survival (DFS) in patients treated for colorectal carcinoma
… sembra essere in grado di selezionare in fase pre-operatoria quei pazienti per i quali si può prevedere una stadiazione più avanzata.
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Comparative imaging of surgical small intestinal disease in dogs: evaluation of pre-operative contrast-enhanced ultrasound, intra-operative contrast-enhanced ultrasound, and triple-phase contrast-enhanced computed tomography
… Failure to identify ischemic tissue intra-operatively can result in surgical dehiscence, require surgical revision, and lead to sepsis or death. Currently contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) is the standard of care for evaluating ischemic lesions of the bowel in humans. …
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Outcomes of patients undergoing lung resection for drug-resistant TB and the prognostic significance of pre-operative positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in predicting treatment failure
… countries, and the prognostic significance of pre-operative PET-CT findings remains unknown. Objectives: To report outcomes for resectional surgery in our setting, and to study whether PET activity outside of the resection influences treatment outcomes. Methods: A retrospective study of all …
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Peri-operative cardiac morbidity: prediction, prevention and the novel role of B-type natriuretic peptide
… of strategies have been utilised to attempt to predict the cardiac risk of surgery. Theoretically, accurate pre-operative risk stratification would allow patients at low risk to have their surgery expedited efficiently, whilst those at higher risk could have a change made to their treatment plan …
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The effects of a six-week, pre-operative, physiotherapy-led exercise and education intervention on post-operative recovery, in terms of pain and function, in patients with osteoarthritis undergoing total knee arthroplasty in the Western Cape
… thus long waiting lists may result in poor post-operative outcomes. It has been found that 10-34% of patients undergoing TKA do not gain adequate relief from surgery. Literature suggests that self-management interventions using exercise and education are effective in reducing pain and improving …
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Estimating Target Vessel Location on Robot-Assisted CABG using Feature-based CT to US Registration
… One of the reasons for conversion is poor pre-operative planning, which is based solely on pre-operative computed tomography (CT) images. This thesis proposes a technique to estimate the global peri-operative displacement of the heart and to predict the intra-operative target vessel …
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Development of clinical assessment strategies for patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA)
… used to fix the prosthesis into the femur or a press-fitting technique is used to insert the prosthesis into the femur. Both techniques have their advantages and disadvantages. However there are no established guidelines for quantitative assessment to use when selecting between them. More so …
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