Carotid endarterectomy in the community hospital in patients age 80 and older.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was conducted to evaluate those factors associated with popliteal artery injury that influence amputation, with emphasis placed on those that the surgeon can control. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Generally accepted factors impacting amputation after popliteal artery injury include blunt trauma, prolong...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Melton SM,Croce MA,Patton JH Jr,Pritchard FE,Minard G,Kudsk KA,Fabian TC

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether F-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) micro-positron emission tomography (micro-PET) can predict abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture. BACKGROUND:An infrarenal AAA model is needed to study inflammatory mechanisms that drive rupture. F-FDG PET can detect vascular inflammation in animal models a...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： English SJ,Piert MR,Diaz JA,Gordon D,Ghosh A,DʼAlecy LG,Whitesall SE,Sharma AK,DeRoo EP,Watt T,Su G,Henke PK,Eliason JL,Ailawadi G,Upchurch GR Jr

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine the results of liver resection for patients with bilateral hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer. We aimed to assess the evolution of the technical approach over time and correlations with morbidity, mortality, and oncologic outcome. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Although...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Gold JS,Are C,Kornprat P,Jarnagin WR,Gönen M,Fong Y,DeMatteo RP,Blumgart LH,D'Angelica M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study investigated the pathogenesis of water and sodium metabolism derangements in obstructive jaundice. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Obstructive jaundice is associated with hypodipsia, depletion of extracellular water, alterations of the water and sodium regulating hormones, and an increased incidence of re...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Pereira JA,Torregrosa MA,Martínez-Ródenas F,Clària J,Pallarés L,Gubern JM,Ruano-Gil D,Sitges-Serra A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The University of Rochester, Department of Surgery, in response to an experimental community-wide limit on hospital budgets, studied high-cost general surgical patients as a potential source of leverage for containment of hospital costs. It was found that a small number of patients impact significantly on hospital cos...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Drucker WR,Gavett JW,Kirshner R,Messick WJ,Ingersoll G

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Umbilical hernia is a common finding in cirrhotic patients with ascites. Spontaneous disruption of the hernia and attendant discharge of ascitic fluid is an unusual and rarely reported complication in these patients and is associated with an overall mortality rate of nearly 30%. During the 5-year period 1977-1982, nin...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lemmer JH,Strodel WE,Knol JA,Eckhauser FE

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician Fee Schedule confers higher value for physician work in procedure and test codes than in Evaluation and Management (E/M) codes. BACKGROUND:Medicare Payment Advisory Commission previously demonstrated that time for medical serv...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kerber KA,Raphaelson M,Barkley GL,Burke JF

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate whether the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, a national program that introduced financial penalties for high readmission rates for certain medical conditions, had a "spillover" effect on surgical conditions. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:During the past decade, ther...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Mehtsun WT,Papanicolas I,Zheng J,Orav EJ,Lillemoe KD,Jha AK

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG) have been associated with a high remission rate of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, whether such remission is associated with full restoration of postprandial glucose profile and/or the potentially nonrestored glycemic profile is associate...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Jiménez A,Ceriello A,Casamitjana R,Flores L,Viaplana-Masclans J,Vidal J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumors from approximately 50% of patients with breast cancer contained estrogen receptor (ER). ER appeared more often and at higher levels in the tumors of postmenopausal women. Eleven out of 12 patients who had multiple ER assays from various metastatic sites showed no significant discrepancies in ER values. ER l...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Singhakowinta A,Potter HG,Buroker TR,Samal B,Brooks SC,Vaitkevicius VK

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staging laparotomy (multiple liver and lymph node biopsies and splenectomy) was performed at the North Carolina Baptist Hospital in 123 patients with Hodgkin's disease. There were no deaths. Wound, pulmonary, intra-abdominal or urinary tract complications developed in 17 patients. Of those complications, one case each...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Sterchi JM,Myers RT

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To discuss the difficulties in dealing with infected or exposed ventral hernia mesh, and to illustrate one solution using an autogenous abdominal wall reconstruction technique. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:The definitive treatment for any infected prosthetic material in the body is removal and substitution. When ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Szczerba SR,Dumanian GA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To prospectively characterize changes in body weight, satiety, and postprandial gut hormone profiles following esophagectomy. BACKGROUND:With improved oncologic outcomes in esophageal cancer, there is an increasing focus on functional status and health-related quality of life in survivorship. Early satiety a...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Elliott JA,Docherty NG,Eckhardt HG,Doyle SL,Guinan EM,Ravi N,Reynolds JV,Roux CWL

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delivery of cardioplegic (CP) solutions to all regions of the myocardium is critical for optimal myocardial protection during cardiac surgery. However, there are little data regarding the effects of CP agents upon coronary vascular resistance (CVR) and CP delivery. Accordingly, we evaluated blood CP (Hct 30) delivery ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Leicher FG,Magrassi P,LaRaia PJ,Derkac WM,Buckley MJ,Austen WG

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report reviews the experience of the Hepatobiliary Unit, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London with 16 patients having proximal extrahepatic bile duct malignancy who underwent resection and a comparable group of 15 patients who had surgical bypass. The purposes of the review were to eval...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Beazley RM,Hadjis N,Benjamin IS,Blumgart LH

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) after mastectomy for cancer has increased in recent years, yet long-term, modality-specific comparative data are lacking. We performed this study to compare short- and long-term outcomes after expander, autologous (AT), and direct-to-implant (DI) breast reconstruction. ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Fischer JP,Fox JP,Nelson JA,Kovach SJ,Serletti JM

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors determined which combination of computed tomography scans is most helpful for preoperative assessment of patients with liver tumors. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Multi-institutional studies have shown that the most important prognostic factors for selection of patients with metastatic colorectal cance...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Karl RC,Morse SS,Halpert RD,Clark RA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of surgical transgastric necrosectomy (TGN) for walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WON) in selected patients. BACKGROUND:WON is a common consequence of severe pancreatitis and typically occurs 3 to 5 weeks after the onset of acute pancreatitis. When symptomatic, it...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Driedger M,Zyromski NJ,Visser BC,Jester A,Sutherland FR,Nakeeb A,Dixon E,Dua MM,House MG,Worhunsky DJ,Munene G,Ball CG

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External pneumatic calf compression is effective but imperfect for antithrombotic prophylaxis in surgical patients. In preliminary studies, sequential filling of multisegmented leggings with graded pressure decreasing from ankle to knee increased venous flow velocity and wall shear stress, decreased residual venous vo...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Salzman EW,McManama GP,Shapiro AH,Robertson LK,Donovan AS,Blume HW,Sweeney J,Kamm RD,Johnson MC,Black PM

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the mechanical characteristics of the esophagogastric junction (EGJ) of postfundoplication patients and compare them with previously reported data on normal subjects and GERD patients. METHODS:Eight normal subjects, 9 GERD patients, and 8 fundoplication patients were studied with concurrent manometr...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Pandolfino JE,Curry J,Shi G,Joehl RJ,Brasseur JG,Kahrilas PJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Early hospital readmission is a common and costly problem in the Medicare population. In 2009, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services began mandating hospital reporting of disease-specific readmission rates. We sought to determine the rate and predictors of readmission after colectomy for cancer, as ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Greenblatt DY,Weber SM,O'Connor ES,LoConte NK,Liou JI,Smith MA

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Few studies have evaluated long-term outcomes after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). This work analyzes the experience of nearly 2 decades by the same team in a single center. Outcomes of OLT and factors affecting survival were analyzed. METHODS:Retrospective analysis of 3200 consecutive OLTs that wer...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Busuttil RW,Farmer DG,Yersiz H,Hiatt JR,McDiarmid SV,Goldstein LI,Saab S,Han S,Durazo F,Weaver M,Cao C,Chen T,Lipshutz GS,Holt C,Gordon S,Gornbein J,Amersi F,Ghobrial RM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was intended to identify prognostic biomarkers for lymph node (LN)-positive locoregional esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) patients. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Surgery is a major treatment for LN-positive locoregional ESCC patients in China. However, patient outcomes are poor and heterogen...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wen J,Wang G,Xie X,Lin G,Yang H,Luo K,Liu Q,Ling Y,Xie X,Lin P,Chen Y,Zhang H,Rong T,Fu J

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:During the past five decades, significant improvements have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) secondary to sports activities, breast implants, or median sternotomy. METHODS, RESULTS, AND CONCLUSIONS:Of more than 15,000 patients evaluated for TOS, 3914 un...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Urschel HC Jr,Razzuk MA

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verapamil administered before treatment, but not after treatment, had a beneficial effect on a 90-minute warm ischemia-reperfusion rat liver injury model. The possible activation of proteases converting the xanthine dehydrogenase to xanthine oxidase, the significant mitochondrial calcium loading during the ischemic pe...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Nauta RJ,Tsimoyiannis E,Uribe M,Walsh DB,Miller D,Butterfield A

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Metabolic activity of transformed human liver (Hep G2) cells and primary rat hepatocytes were compared during in vitro application of a gel entrapment bioartificial liver. BACKGROUND:Clinical trials of bioartificial liver devices containing either transformed liver cells or primary hepatocytes have been init...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Nyberg SL,Remmel RP,Mann HJ,Peshwa MV,Hu WS,Cerra FB

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of three gastric restriction operations were compared in a prospective randomized study of 310 morbidly obese subjects. The median patient age was 34 years (range, 18 to 62 years). They were predominantly female (13:1) and had a median pre-operative weight that was 198% of their ideal weight (range, 160% ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hall JC,Watts JM,O'Brien PE,Dunstan RE,Walsh JF,Slavotinek AH,Elmslie RG

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total hepatic protein synthesis was measured in vivo with a flooding-dose technique, and the production of total secreted proteins, albumin, complement component C3, and seromucoid fraction was measured in perfused livers of septic rats that received one of three different solutions infused intravenously; Group 1 rece...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Pedersen P,Li SJ,Hasselgren PO,LaFrance R,Fischer JE

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine long-term survival after pancreatoduodenectomy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and to identify clinical factors associated with long-term survival. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:The prognosis for long-term survival even after potentially curative resection for pancreatic adenocarcinoma is thought...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Schnelldorfer T,Ware AL,Sarr MG,Smyrk TC,Zhang L,Qin R,Gullerud RE,Donohue JH,Nagorney DM,Farnell MB

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to describe our living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) surgical technique and its long-term patency for patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) and retrohepatic inferior vena cava (IVC) obstruction that extends up to the atrium. BACKGROUND:From a technical perspective, LDLT for BCS with an IVC o...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Yoon YI,Lee SG,Moon DB,Ahn CS,Hwang S,Kim KH,Ha TY,Song GW,Jung DH,Park GC,Kim DS,Choo SJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00