Human umbilical veins and autogenous veins as canine arterial bypass grafts.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To document the decreased incidence of surgical complications after pancreas transplantation in recent times. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Compared with other abdominal transplants, pancreas transplants have historically had the highest incidence of surgical complications. However, over the past few years, the au...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Humar A,Kandaswamy R,Granger D,Gruessner RW,Gruessner AC,Sutherland DE

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe causes of death in the first year after esophagectomy and determine the time frame that should be used for measurement of quality of surgery. A case-mix adjustment model was developed for the comparison between hospitals. BACKGROUND:The time period in which postoperative mortality should be measu...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Talsma AK,Lingsma HF,Steyerberg EW,Wijnhoven BP,Van Lanschot JJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the systemic cytokine response in patients after laparoscopic-assisted resection with those after open resection of rectosigmoid carcinoma. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Laparoscopic resection of colorectal carcinoma is technically feasible, but objective evidence of its benefit is scarce. Systemic cyto...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Leung KL,Lai PB,Ho RL,Meng WC,Yiu RY,Lee JF,Lau WY

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the use of coffee, caffeinated drinks, and caffeine tablets for pharmacological cognitive enhancement (CE) among surgeons. BACKGROUND:Surgeons have demanding workloads, and the resulting fatigue and concentration deficits can lead to medical errors. Some surgeons use substances that promote wa...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Franke AG,Bagusat C,McFarlane C,Tassone-Steiger T,Kneist W,Lieb K

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure plasma levels of angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1), angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2), and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) early after trauma and to determine their clinical significance. BACKGROUND:Angiopoietins and VEGF play a central role in the physiology and pathophysiology of endothelial cells. Ang-2 ha...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Ganter MT,Cohen MJ,Brohi K,Chesebro BB,Staudenmayer KL,Rahn P,Christiaans SC,Bir ND,Pittet JF

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients were studied before and two to three days after major, uncomplicated abdominal operation. Muscle tissue was obtained by needle biopsy from m. quadriceps femoris after eight hours overnight fast. Plasma free amino acids were analyzed in simultaneously obtained samples. In the homogenized muscle samples th...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Vinnars E,Bergstöm J,Fürst P

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for gastric cancer bases N status on absolute number of metastatic nodes, regardless of the number of examined nodes. We examined a modified staging system utilizing node ratio (Nr), the ratio of metastatic to examined nodes. METHODS:A total of 18...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wang J,Dang P,Raut CP,Pandalai PK,Maduekwe UN,Rattner DW,Lauwers GY,Yoon SS

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to determine the unbiased mortality rates for pancreatic surgery procedures at the national level through a comprehensive analysis of every inpatient case in Germany. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Several studies have proclaimed a general improvement of perioperative outcomes following pancreatic surge...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Nimptsch U,Krautz C,Weber GF,Mansky T,Grützmann R

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety and efficacy of transversus abdominis muscle release (TAR) with retrorectus synthetic mesh reinforcement in a large series of complex hernia patients. BACKGROUND:Posterior component separation via TAR during abdominal wall reconstruction (AWR) continues to gain popularity. Although our...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Novitsky YW,Fayezizadeh M,Majumder A,Neupane R,Elliott HL,Orenstein SB

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repair of the pharynx after extirpation of malignancy may require the introduction of independently vascularized tissue either at the time of resection (primary reconstruction) or later for undesirable sequelae, such as fistula or stenosis. A ten-year retrospective study compares two methods of pharyngeal reconstructi...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Coleman JJ 3rd

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the impact of a clinical pathway for elective infrarenal aortic reconstruction on outcome, resource utilization, and cost in a university medical center. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Clinical pathways have been reported to control costs, reduce resource utilization, and maintain or improve the qualit...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Huber TS,Carlton LM,Harward TR,Russin MM,Phillips PT,Nalli BJ,Flynn TC,Seeger JM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the factors that may predict music-induced relaxation in friends and family of patients in the emergency department. BACKGROUND:It remains unclear to date which demographic and experiential factors predict the effectiveness of music-induced relaxation. Furthermore, in-hospital stressors for frie...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Tilt AC,Werner PD,Brown DF,Alam HB,Warshaw AL,Parry BA,Jazbar B,Booker A,Stangenberg L,Fricchione GL,Benson H,Lillemoe KD,Conrad C

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients frequently voice concerns regarding wait times for cancer treatment; however, little is known about the length of wait times from diagnosis to surgery in the United States. Our objectives were (1) to assess changes in wait times over the past decade and (2) to identify patient, tumor, and hospital f...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Bilimoria KY,Ko CY,Tomlinson JS,Stewart AK,Talamonti MS,Hynes DL,Winchester DP,Bentrem DJ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Radiation therapy is increasingly used as adjuvant treatment of many childhood and adult malignancies. Radiation-induced sarcoma is a well recognized if uncommon event. The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence and long-term outcome for patients who develop radiation-induced sarcomas. MET...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Cha C,Antonescu CR,Quan ML,Maru S,Brennan MF

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a 23-year follow-up of the separation of ischiopagus tetrapus conjoined twins reported in Annals of Surgery in December 1966. One twin died of septicemia at age 2 years after bilateral pelvic osteotomies for the treatment of her marked pelvic diastasis. The surviving twin has done reasonably well, ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hoyle RM,Thomas CG Jr

更新日期：1989-11-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the association between pre- and perioperative factors and pouch-related septic complications (PRSC) in ulcerative colitis (UC) and in familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA). SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:For patients with UC and FAP, IPAA is the surgical therapy ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Heuschen UA,Hinz U,Allemeyer EH,Autschbach F,Stern J,Lucas M,Herfarth C,Heuschen G

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To develop and validate a classification of sleeve gastrectomy leaks able to reliably predict outcomes, from protocolized computed tomography (CT) findings and readily available variables. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Leaks post sleeve gastrectomy remain morbid and resource-consuming. Incidence, treatments, a...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Johari Y,Catchlove W,Tse M,Shaw K,Paul E,Chen R,Loh D,Packiyanathan A,Burton P,Nottle P,Ellis S,Brown W

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-year survival after resection of hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer is 25%. Although resection palliates some patients who do not live that long, 50% of patients so treated are not helped at all. Until ignorance of a cancer's real stage is resolved by improved techniques, the evaluation and choice of thera...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wagner JS,Adson MA,Van Heerden JA,Adson MH,Ilstrup DM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric carcinoma following operation for benign peptic ulcer disease has been considered rare but nine patients have been seen during the past five years. All were male patients, the average time interval from prior ulcer operation to development of cancer was 17 years, but was a short as ten years. The symptoms of c...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Eberlein TJ,Lorenzo FV,Webster MW

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review brings the total number of biliary cysts reported in the world literature to 955. Eighty-one per cent of patients are females and 61% were discovered before age ten. The classical triad of right upper quadrant pain, right upper quandrant mass, and juandice is present in 38% of cases. The duration of sympto...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Flanigan PD

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the roles and underlying mechanism of an inflammatory mediator-lipocalin-2 (Lcn2) in small-for-size fatty graft liver injury. BACKGROUND:Understanding of the distinct mechanism regulating small-for-size fatty liver graft injury will be crucial to prevent marginal graft failure during living do...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Cheng Q,Ng KT,Xu A,Li CX,Liu XB,Guo DY,Poon RT,Fan ST,Lo CM,Man K

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the authors' hypothesis that with modern techniques, the current risks of repair for both complete and partial atrioventricular canal (AVC) are equal. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Repair of complete AVC in infancy has traditionally carried a substantial mortality. In contrast, partial AVC has been consi...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Cope JT,Fraser GD,Kouretas PC,Kron IL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distal popliteal arterial variations may influence the success of femorodistal popliteal and tibial arterial reconstructions. Two patients whose bypass procedures were initially unsatisfactory because of a poor choice for anastomosis stimulated a review of variations in the distal popliteal artery in 1000 femoral arte...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kim D,Orron DE,Skillman JJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Release of pancreatic polypeptide (PP) after a meal is biphasic, with an early transient peak believed to be under cholinergic control, and a secondary, prolonged intestinal phase thought to be mediated by hormones. Endogenous release of PP was stimulated by intraduodenal oleate (6.8 mmol/hr) or by intravenous adminis...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Fried GM,Ogden WD,Greeley GH Jr,Thompson JC

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six patients are reviewed who had primary carcinomas involving the junction of the hepatic ducts. The majority had had an initial procedure of palliative biliary diversion elsewhere and were referred for further treatment. In three cases, en bloc resection of the tumor with total hepatectomy and orthotopic live...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Fortner JG,Kallum BO,Kim DK

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 178 patients with sclerosing cholangitis treated since 1950, 88 patients had associated inflammatory bowel disease, 72 had no such history, and 18 had iatrogenic injury or stone disease. A total of 233 biliary operations were performed, with a 75% rate of temporary improvement after initial operation. Subsequent op...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Martin FM,Rossi RL,Nugent FW,Scholz FJ,Jenkins RL,Lewis WD,Gagner M,Foley E,Braasch JW

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the feasibility and safety of Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) appendectomy, and to analyze separately the transvaginal appendectomy (TVAE) and the transgastric appendectomy (TGAE) procedures. BACKGROUND:Laparoscopic appendectomy has rare but relevant complications, namely i...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Bulian DR,Kaehler G,Magdeburg R,Butters M,Burghardt J,Albrecht R,Bernhardt J,Heiss MM,Buhr HJ,Lehmann KS

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors investigate the recovery of gastrointestinal motility in the fed and fasted state after laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Clinical recovery after laparoscopic cholecystectomy is known to be more rapid than after conventional open cholecystectomy. However, the actual e...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hotokezaka M,Combs MJ,Mentis EP,Schirmer BD

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcutaneous administration of insulin did not induce a significant effect on oxidative phosphorylation of the mitochondria from normal rat liver. However, in rats subjected to ligation of a branch of portal vein, the phosphorylative activity of the mitochondria from the ligated lobe deprived of portal blood fell ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Ozawa K,Yamada T,Honjo I

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00