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TNF inhibitors prior to surgery safe in patients with IBD: Study
The rate of postoperative infection is no different between patients exposed to and those unexposed to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors in the 12...
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Which breast cancer surgery leads to better quality of life?
Superior psychosocial and sexual well-being at 10 years after surgery was reported by women who underwent breast-conserving surgery and adjuvant...
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Surgery shows no survival, morbidity benefit for mild hyperparathyroidism
A decade-long randomized trial shows nearly identical outcomes in most measures in patients with mild parathyroid tumors who did and did not...
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Bariatric surgery cuts cardiovascular events, even in seniors
In persons with obesity, even those aged 65-75 years of age, bariatric surgery can reduce long-term cardiovascular events, such as heart failure,...
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Early meniscal surgery on par with active rehab in under 40s
Early meniscal surgery in people aged under 40 years was not better than an exercise and education program in the randomized controlled DREAM...
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Surgeons in China ‘are the executioners,’ procuring organs before brain death
An analysis of articles published in obscure Chinese language journals provides damning evidence of decades of widespread organ harvesting from...
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Live-donor liver transplants for patients with CRC liver mets
"For the first time, we have been able to demonstrate [outside of Norway] that liver transplantation for patients with unresectable liver...
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Performance anxiety highly common among surgeons
“I wish we talked about it more and shared our insecurities. Most of my colleagues pretend they are living gods.”
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Cancer of the appendix on the rise in younger patients with appendicitis
“There is a push to treat acute appendicitis with only antibiotics ... an appendiceal cancer can be missed if the appendix is not removed.”
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Surgery groups push back on VARC-3 valve trial definitions
A new position statement says the updated VARC-3 document on clinical endpoint definitions provides many important contributions, but “some...
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Racial disparities seen in pediatric postoperative mortality rates
The results showed that postoperative mortality rates were significantly higher in Black children in the highest income category, compared with...