Tag: Surgery: Misc.

Positive laparoscopy is associated with younger age, indeterminate extrapancreatic lesions on preoperative imaging, body/tail tumor location

Early use tied to better postoperative functional outcomes without hemorrhagic transformation risk

High satisfaction and low decisional regret seen among 139 responders; no requests for or performance of reversal procedures reported

Over two decades of follow-up, more than half of patients avoided surgery; recurrent appendicitis was the only long-term risk for some

No significant difference seen in number of days alive and out of the hospital at 91 days for surgery versus no surgery

Reduction seen in severity of pain and improvement in sleep quality for patients after open-heart surgery

Rate of vertigo control higher after cochlear implantation alone versus endolymphatic sac surgery alone or with cochlear implant

Study shows reduction in acute pain for high- but not low-dose VX-548

Increased risk for autoimmune disease seen when patients with preoperative infection, cancer, autoimmune disease were excluded

Majority of patients have successful repair after 10 years of follow-up