Annals of surgery
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Multicenter Study
Carolinas Comfort Scale as a Measure of Hernia Repair Quality of Life: A Reappraisal Utilizing 3788 International Patients.
The goal of the present study was to reaffirm the psychometric properties of the CCS using an expansive, multinational cohort. ⋯ The present study confirms that the CCS questionnaire is a validated, sensitive, and robust instrument for assessing QOL after hernia repair, which has become a predominant outcome measure in this discipline of surgery.
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Bariatric Surgery Readmissions: Findings From 130,007 Admissions in the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program.
To evaluate readmissions following laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB), laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB). ⋯ National bariatric readmissions after primary procedures were closely associated with complications, varied based on the type of procedure, and were most commonly due to nausea, vomiting, electrolyte, and nutritional depletion.
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The aim of this study is to analyze perioperative outcomes of robotic reconstruction of iatrogenic biliary injuries and describe the surgical technique in detail. ⋯ Robot-assisted BDI reconstruction is feasible, safe, and may represent an interesting option in expert hands. It maintains all the benefits of minimally invasive surgery and seems to have technical advantages in fine dissection and microsuturing in the liver hilum (magnified microsuturing). In this series, 14 patients with major BDIs were repaired with the robotic approach, with conversion and reoperation rates of 0%. Long-term outcome evaluation requires a longer follow up and larger series, but the initial results are promising.
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The aim of this study was to investigate trends in patients' characteristics and comorbidities in esophageal cancer (EC) patients. ⋯ The current EC patient has more often an esophageal adenocarcinoma and is more frequently elderly, asymptomatic, a survivor of previous neoplasms, and a patient with hypertension and cardiac disease than 30 years ago. On the contrary, malnutrition, alcoholic drinking, gastric ulcer, pulmonary disease, and advanced liver disease decreased.