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MDLinx Surgery is your ultimate resource for the latest General Surgery and subspecialty surgery news articles published in over 2,000 peer-reviewed medical journals and popular press. Our diligent team of medical editor’s rank sort and summarize Surgery news articles with topics ranging from: Cardiac Surgery, Critical Care, Vascular, Thoracic, Peds Surgery, Neurosurgery and much more. On this page you may also find bonus content that includes articles highlighted by our physician editor, D. Scott Cunningham, MD, PhD, that are “must-read “ as well as clinical pearls taken from our Smartest Doc quiz competition.
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Latest (2) Full Text Articles (54)321 Pulmonary infections in transplant recipients Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, March 26, 2012
322 Autoimmune Hepatitis After Liver Transplantation Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology , March 22, 2012
323 Systematic review of total pancreatectomy and islet autotransplantation for chronic pancreatitis British Journal of Surgery, March 21, 2012
324 Streptococcus milleri in intraabdominal abscesses in children after appendectomy: incidence and course Journal of Pediatric Surgery, March 21, 2012
325 Diagnosis and management of hydatid liver disease in children: a report of 156 patients with hydatid disease Journal of Pediatric Surgery, March 20, 2012
326 Lung transplantation in patients with coal workers’ pneumoconiosis Clinical Transplantation, March 19, 2012
327 Unusual presentation of cryolife O'Brien stentless aortic valve bioprosthesis dysfunction mimicking infective endocarditis European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, March 16, 2012
328 Human papillomavirus and gene mutations in head and neck squamous carcinomas ANZ Journal of Surgery, March 14, 2012
329 Early transcriptional programming links progression to hepatitis C virus-induced severe liver disease in transplant patients Hepatology, March 13, 2012
330 Human herpesvirus-6 infections in kidney, liver, lung, and heart transplantation: review Transplant International, March 12, 2012
331 Is simultaneous splenectomy an additive risk factor in surgical treatment for active endocarditis Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, March 9, 2012
332 Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 infection worsens prognosis of hepatitis C virus-related living donor liver transplantation Transplant International, March 8, 2012
333 Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for hepatitis C virus-related portal hypertension after liver transplantation Clinical Transplantation, March 7, 2012
334 Pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis in a breast cancer patient: report of a case Surgery Today, March 5, 2012
335 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for 2009 influenza A (H1N1) acute respiratory distress syndrome: single-centre experience with 1-year follow-up European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, March 2, 2012
336 Acute Exacerbation of Usual Interstitial Pneumonia After Resection of Lung Cancer Full Text Annals of Thoracic Surgery, March 1, 2012
337 Does resident involvement effect surgical times and complication rates during laparoscopic appendectomy for uncomplicated appendicitis? An analysis of 16,849 cases from the ACS-NSQIP The American Journal of Surgery, February 28, 2012
338 Selecting a Surgical Modality to Treat a Splenic Hydatid Cyst: Total Splenectomy or Spleen-Saving Surgery? Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, February 28, 2012
339 Screening and Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Children Undergoing Open Airway Surgery JAMA Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, February 23, 2012 Clinical Article
340 Endovascular Treatment of a Tuberculous Thoracoabdominal Aneurysm With the Multilayer Stent Journal of Endovascular Therapy, February 23, 2012
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Highlights in Surgery
Epidural anesthesia reduces post-CABG pain
As published in the Journal of Cardiac Surgery, thoracic epidural anesthesia (TEA) plus general anesthesia (GA) is superior to GA alone in managing post-operative CABG pain. Forty patients undergoing elective CABG were randomized to receive TEA (0.25% bipivacaine [10-20 mg/h]) intra-operatively and for 24 h post-operatively plus GA or GA alone. Post-operative pain at rest and with coughing was significantly less for up to 1 month post-operatively in the TEA + GA group compared to the GA alone group. Furthermore, analgesic use, mechanical ventilation time, ICU stay time, and hospital stay time were reduced in the TEA + GA group compared to the GA alone group.
Read the article summaryNT-proBNP predicts outcome following emergent surgery
As published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, measurement of N-terminal pro B-type natruiretic peptide (NT-proBNP) pre- and post-operatively predicts outcome in patients > 50 years of age (n=297) undergoing emergent non-cardiac surgery. A pre-operative NT-proBNP > 725 pg/ml was associated with a 4.8-fold RR of non-fatal MI, acute heart failure, or death between surgery and the 3-year post-operative follow up. Similarly, a post-operative NT-proBNP > 1600 pg/ml was associated with a 4.0-fold RR of non-fatal MI, acute heart failure, or death between surgery and the 3-year post-operative follow up. A pre-operative NT-proBNP > 1740 pg/ml was associated with a 6.9 RR for major adverse cardiac events during the post-operative hospital stay.
Read the article summaryIncreased risk of skin cancer in RCC treated with multikinase inhibitors
As published in Dermatologic Surgery, RCC patients (n=69) treated with multikinase inhibitors are at increased risk for squamous cell carcinomas and basal cell carcinomas. After a median treatment of 13.5 months, 13.5% and 6.3% of patients treated with sorafenib and sunitinib developed skin cancer, respectively.
Read the article summaryMost Popular Surgery Articles
Last month's top read Top Articles of 20121 Risk factors for anastomotic leakage and favorable antimicrobial treatment as empirical therapy for intra-abdominal infection in patients undergoing colorectal surgery Surgery Today, April 10, 2013
2 Timing of Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis and the Risk of Surgical Site Infection Antibiotic Prophylaxis Timing and SSI Risk JAMA Surgery, March 25, 2013 Review Article
3 Preoperative skin antiseptics for preventing surgical wound infections after clean surgery Cochrane Reviews, April 3, 2013 Review Article
4 A Method for Estimating the Risk of Surgical Site Infection in Patients With Abdominal Colorectal Procedures Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, April 23, 2013
5 Treatment of the residual cavity during hepatic hydatidosis surgery: a cohort study of capitonnage vs. omentoplasty Surgery Today, April 16, 2013 Review Article
6 Inaccessible Postoperative Abdominal Abscess: Percutaneous Drainage Technique with Puncture of a Sinus Tract Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, April 2, 2013
7 Advanced Tumor Stage Is an Independent Risk Factor of Postoperative Infectious Complications After Colorectal Surgery: Arguments From a Case-Matched Series Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, April 26, 2013
8 Vegetation attached to the elephant trunk European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, April 9, 2013
9 Wound biofilms: Lessons learned from oral biofilms Wound Repair and Regeneration, April 10, 2013 Review Article
10 Current Issues in the Diagnosis and Management of Blood Culture-Negative Infective and Non-Infective Endocarditis Annals of Thoracic Surgery, April 15, 2013 Review Article
11 Conservative management of mesh-site infection in hernia repair surgery: a case series Hernia, March 29, 2013 Review Article
12 Removal of an Infected Aortic Endograft and Open Aortic Reconstruction: Technical Remarks Annals of Vascular Surgery, April 8, 2013
13 Treatment strategies for aortic and peripheral prosthetic graft infection Surgery Today, April 10, 2013 Review Article
14 Contemporary management of perianal conditions in febrile neutropenic patients European Journal of Surgical Oncology, March 13, 2013 Review Article
15 Contemporary trends in necrotizing soft-tissue infections in the United States Surgery, March 6, 2013
16 Bacterial biofilms and capsular contracture in patients with breast implants British Journal of Surgery, March 7, 2013
17 Meningococcal sepsis and purpura fulminans: the surgical perspective Postgraduate Medical Journal, March 13, 2013 Review Article
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