Acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis and pseudocyst due to mumps.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Complexity of combined heart-liver transplantation has resulted in low adoption rates. We report a case series of adult patients receiving en-bloc heart-liver transplantation (HLTx), describe technical aspects, and discuss benefits of the technique. METHODS:Retrospective review of patients receiving en-bl...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Brozzi NA,Loebe M,Souki FG,Beduschi T,Ghodzisad A,Tekin A,Nicolau-Raducu A,Vianna RM

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate readmissions following laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB). BACKGROUND:Few studies have evaluated national readmission rates for primary bariatric surgery with national, bariatric-specific data. ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Berger ER,Huffman KM,Fraker T,Petrick AT,Brethauer SA,Hall BL,Ko CY,Morton JM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To train surgeons in a standardized technique of sentinel lymph node biopsy and to prepare them for the requirements of a prospective randomized surgical trial. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:The NSABP B32 trial opened to accrual in May 1999. A significant component of this trial was a prerandomization training pha...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Harlow SP,Krag DN,Julian TB,Ashikaga T,Weaver DL,Feldman SA,Klimberg VS,Kusminsky R,Moffat FL Jr,Noyes RD,Beitsch PD

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the feasibility and outcomes of video-based peer feedback through social networking to facilitate robotic surgical skill acquisition. BACKGROUND:The acquisition of surgical skills may be challenging for novel techniques and/or those with prolonged learning curves. METHODS:Randomized controlled tr...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Carter SC,Chiang A,Shah G,Kwan L,Montgomery JS,Karam A,Tarnay C,Guru KA,Hu JC

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether level of arterial obstruction determines the effectiveness of SET in patients with IC. BACKGROUND DATA:Guidelines advocate SET before invasive treatment for IC, but early revascularization remains widespread, especially in patients with aortoiliac disease. METHODS:Patients were recruited f...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： van den Houten MML,Jansen S,van der Laan L,Vriens PWHE,Willigendael EM,Koelemay MJW,Scheltinga MRM,Teijink JAW,ELECT Study Group.

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In animals pulmonary hypertension, a decrease in total body O2 consumption and metabolic acidosis occur after transfusion of blood with an elevated screen filtration pressure (SFP) through standard blood transfusion filters. The purpose of this study was to define in detail the pulmonary abnormalities that develop fol...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Barrett J,Dawidson I,Dhurandhar HN,Miller E,Litwin MS

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if an aggressive surgical approach, with an increase in R0 resections, has resulted in improved survival for patients with gallbladder cancer. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Many physicians express a relatively nihilistic approach to the treatment of gallbladder cancer; consensus among surgeons regardi...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Dixon E,Vollmer CM Jr,Sahajpal A,Cattral M,Grant D,Doig C,Hemming A,Taylor B,Langer B,Greig P,Gallinger S

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess survival after liver resection and transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) beyond Milan criteria. BACKGROUND:The role of liver resection and transplantation remains controversial for patients with HCC beyond Milan criteria. Resection of advanced tumors and transplantation u...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Zaydfudim VM,Vachharajani N,Klintmalm GB,Jarnagin WR,Hemming AW,Doyle MB,Cavaness KM,Chapman WC,Nagorney DM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to evaluate the short-term outcomes and long-term survival of laparoscopic rectal cancer resection at a single institution with 579 cases over a 15-year period. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:The use of laparoscopic resection for colon cancer has been shown to be safe with comparable oncolo...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Ng KH,Ng DC,Cheung HY,Wong JC,Yau KK,Chung CC,Li MK

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors determined the molecular mechanisms for the failure of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) to inhibit the growth of SW1116 and SW48 colon cancer cell lines. BACKGROUND:Transforming growth factor-beta is a bifunctional regulator of cell growth that typically stimulates proliferation of mese...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： MacKay SL,Yaswen LR,Tarnuzzer RW,Moldawer LL,Bland KI,Copeland EM 3rd,Schultz GS

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early aggressive therapy with maintenance infusions of methylprednisolone sodium succinate and gentamicin sulfate significantly increases the probability for survival of baboons given LD100 Escherichia coli. The present study was designed to determine if baboons would recover when initiation of treatment was delayed u...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hinshaw LB,Beller-Todd BK,Archer LT,Benjamin B,Flournoy DJ,Passey R,Wilson MF

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Controversy exists on the use of mesh in the repair of paraesophageal hernias (PEH). This debate centers around the type of mesh used, its value in preventing recurrence, its short- and long-term complications, and the consequences of those complications compared with primary repair. Decision analysis is a m...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Obeid NM,Velanovich V

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Individualized risk assessment in patients with UICC stage II colon cancer based on a panel of molecular genetic alterations. BACKGROUND:Risk assessment in patients with colon cancer and localized disease (UICC stage II) is not sufficiently reliable. Development of metachronous metastasis is assumed to be g...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Nitsche U,Rosenberg R,Balmert A,Schuster T,Slotta-Huspenina J,Herrmann P,Bader FG,Friess H,Schlag PM,Stein U,Janssen KP

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) develops in virtually all patients affected with multiple endocrine neoplasia type II (MEN II), a disease inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. The thyroid tumor cells secrete calcitonin (CT) and the detection of elevated plasma levels (>300 pg/ml) of this hormone in MEN II kindre...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wells SA Jr,Baylin SB,Gann DS,Farrell RE,Dilley WG,Preissig SH,Linehan WM,Cooper CW

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of 112 patients who underwent reoperation for primary hyperparathyroidism at the Massachusetts General Hospital between 1930 and 1975, all but 10 were treated successfully. Seventy-five initial explorations had been performed elsewhere, and 37 in our hospital. A total of 110 diseased parathyroids were unco...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wang CA

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting energy expenditure (REE), nutritional parameters, and substrate levels were measured using a technique to minimize artifacts in 11 control patients, nine patients with localized, and four patients with diffuse neoplastic disease. Patients with diffuse disease had significantly increased percentage preillness w...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Arbeit JM,Lees DE,Corsey R,Brennan MF

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate that alvimopan (6 or 12 mg) accelerates recovery of gastrointestinal (GI) function in patients undergoing laparotomy for bowel resection or radical hysterectomy. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Postoperative ileus (POI) following laparotomy may increase morbidity and extend hospitalization. Opioids ca...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wolff BG,Michelassi F,Gerkin TM,Techner L,Gabriel K,Du W,Wallin BA,Alvimopan Postoperative Ileus Study Group.

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Computed tomographic angiography (CTA) by 16-channel multidetector scanner is increasingly replacing conventional digital subtraction angiography (DSA) for diagnosing or excluding blunt carotid/vertebral injuries (BCVI). To date there has been only 1 study in which all patients received both examinations. Tha...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Malhotra AK,Camacho M,Ivatury RR,Davis IC,Komorowski DJ,Leung DA,Grizzard JD,Aboutanos MB,Duane TM,Cockrell C,Wolfe LG,Borchers CT,Martin NR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical coding is the translation of clinical activity into a coded language. Coded data drive hospital reimbursement and are used for audit and research, and benchmarking and outcomes management purposes. METHODS:We undertook a 2-center audit of coding accuracy across surgery. Clinician-auditor multidisci...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Nouraei SA,Hudovsky A,Frampton AE,Mufti U,White NB,Wathen CG,Sandhu GS,Darzi A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior experience with the rare combination of horseshoe kidney and significant atherosclerotic vascular disease suggests difficulty in intraoperative management, often requiring division of the renal isthmus or sacrifice of some renal tissue. Seven patients have been managed successfully over the past ten years at The...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lobe TE,Martin EW Jr,Cooperman M,Vasko J,Evans WE

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of metastatic spread among patients with early-stage pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors has not been well established. The authors sought to evaluate whether the new TNM staging systems proposed by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) and European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) are prog...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Strosberg JR,Cheema A,Weber JM,Ghayouri M,Han G,Hodul PJ,Kvols LK

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All cases of penetrating cardiac trauma in 1985 and 1986 in Jefferson County, Alabama, where patients dying of penetrating trauma received autopsies, were retrospectively reviewed. All hospitals in the county plus the single coroner's office provided the records of the 72 patients comprising this study. Incidents occu...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Naughton MJ,Brissie RM,Bessey PQ,McEachern MM,Donald JM Jr,Laws HL

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barium sulfate granuloma of the rectum may develop when this contrast material is forced through a discontinuity in the rectal mucosa. The ensuing mass may be confused with carcinoma. Preoperative biopsy and attention to plain films will prevent unnecessary inappropriate surgery. ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lewis JW Jr,Kerstein MD,Koss N

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought association of genetic variants in the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and vitamin D system with acute pancreatitis (AP) development and severity. BACKGROUND:The endocrine RAS is involved in circulatory homeostasis through the pressor action of angiotensin II at its AT1 receptor. However, local RAS...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Skipworth JR,Nijmeijer RM,van Santvoort HC,Besselink MG,Schulz HU,Kivimaki M,Kumari M,Cooper JA,Acharya J,Shankar A,Malago M,Humphries SE,Olde Damink SW,Montgomery HE

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We report on a new side-to-side isoperistaltic strictureplasty (SSIS), the Michelassi II or end-to-side-to-side-to-end strictureplasty, performed with discontinuous bowel loops. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:The SSIS Michelassi strictureplasty was described a quarter of a century ago to avoid massive bowel resecti...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Mege D,Michelassi F

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish criteria for venous reconstruction of middle hepatic vein (MHV) tributaries of the right liver graft in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:In adult LDLT using the right hemiliver, the MHV is usually separated from the graft, which results in potenti...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Sano K,Makuuchi M,Miki K,Maema A,Sugawara Y,Imamura H,Matsunami H,Takayama T

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Minimal immunosuppression (IS) is desirable in organ transplantation to reduce side effects and to promote the process of tolerance induction. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Between February 2000 and September 2004, 156 adults (>15 years old) receiving a primary liver graft were enrolled in a prospective, randomized,...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lerut J,Mathys J,Verbaandert C,Talpe S,Ciccarelli O,Lemaire J,Bonaccorsi-Riani E,Vanthuyne V,Hetsch N,Roggen F,Reyck CD,Goffette P,Latinne D,Orlando G,Rahier J,Sempoux C,Wallemacq P,Laterre PF,Gianello P

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This investigation aimed at exploring the prospects of a cure for persistent medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) stratified by basal calcitonin levels before reoperation and the number of lymph node metastases previously removed at outside facilities. BACKGROUND:There is no evidence-based information supporting t...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Machens A,Dralle H

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the gene expression signature of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in relation to the gross morphology. BACKGROUND:Eggel's nodular type of HCC is morphologically subclassified into the single nodular (SN) type, the single nodular type with extranodular growth (SNEG), and the confluent multinodular (...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Murakata A,Tanaka S,Mogushi K,Yasen M,Noguchi N,Irie T,Kudo A,Nakamura N,Tanaka H,Arii S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the cost-effectiveness of enhanced recovery pathways (ERPs) versus conventional care for patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery. BACKGROUND:ERPs for colorectal surgery are clinically effective, but their cost-effectiveness is unknown. METHODS:A multi-institutional prospective cohort co...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lee L,Mata J,Ghitulescu GA,Boutros M,Charlebois P,Stein B,Liberman AS,Fried GM,Morin N,Carli F,Latimer E,Feldman LS

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00