Annals of surgery
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To determine whether the timing of parathyroid surgery impacts the risk of renal stone retreatment and cardiovascular interventions. ⋯ In symptomatic pHPT, delaying PTX significantly increases the risk of requiring future stone retreatment and cardiac/vascular surgical interventions. This highlights the importance of early surgical referral and multidisciplinary approaches to optimize outcomes and resource utilization in pHPT.
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To compare the risk of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) events following sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and Roux en Y gastric bypass (RYGB). ⋯ These findings further support the preferential use of RYGB over SG for patients with T2D or who have pre-existing CVD. However, among other groups of patients, including older adults, we did not observe a relative benefit of RYGB during the time horizon in this study.
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We analyzed the use of a self-expandable absorbable biliary stent (SEABS) to reduce biliary complications in liver transplant (LT). ⋯ SEABS during biliary anastomosis in LT is feasible with no adverse effects and avoid the T-tube in high-risk biliary anastomoses. It use has been associated with less early biliary complications, hospital costs and reoperations or interventional treatments for biliary complications resolution.