Surgery

None of the grafts with a cumulative age of 100 years were lost to primary nonfunction or to vascular/biliary complications

Functional level and vertigo control improved, but pure tone average hearing loss increased and speech comprehension decreased

Physicians with disabilities reported physical and sexual mistreatment from both coworkers and patients

Systemic complications less frequent following cataract surgery compared with other low-risk procedures in Medicare beneficiaries

Higher risk also seen among patients experiencing increased urinary symptoms

Findings seen among Medicare patients admitted with an emergency general surgery condition

For patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm, inflection point for risk for aortic dissection, composite of aortic dissection, and all-cause death seen at 6.0 cm

Postoperative consumption of opioids over six weeks reduced with multimodal opioid-sparing protocol for managing pain following arthroscopic shoulder or knee surgery

Despite longer waiting list times, graft and recipient survival maintained and waiting list mortality unchanged

Authors say local complications are a far more common reason for silicone breast implant revision