General Surgery
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Colonic Crohn’s: Segmental vs. total colectomy
Segmental colectomy may be performed in patients with colonic Crohn’s disease without increasing risk of repeat surgeries, compared with total...
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Gender surgeons on TikTok, Instagram: Appropriate or not?
“Creating an idealized video without addressing risk is inappropriate and misleading.”
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Add AFib to noncardiac surgery risk evaluation: New support
Preexisting atrial fibrillation should again be part of pre–noncardiac surgery cardiac risk assessment, argues a new report.
Guidelines
New guideline for in-hospital care of diabetes says use CGMs
Patients with diabetes or newly recognized hyperglycemia get admitted to every patient service in the hospital, and their glycemic management can...
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Women are not being warned that anesthetic may reduce birth pill efficacy
“Use of sugammadex is expected to rise as it becomes cheaper in the future, and ensuring that women receiving this medicine are aware it may...
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Liver transplanted after 3 days outside body
The perfusion machine simulated functions of the human body, including blood flow, hormone, and nutrient supply, and even the ebb and flow of...
Conference Coverage
Index cholecystectomy reduces readmissions after acute cholangitis
Cholecystectomy is considered an elective procedure, and surgeons may delay it if the patient is very sick or simply for scheduling reasons.
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Endoscopic obesity treatments offer alternatives to surgery
These methods have shown lower efficacy but with fewer adverse effects.
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Complicated appendicitis during pregnancy: Immediate surgery may be best
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TNF inhibitors prior to surgery safe in patients with IBD: Study
The rate of postoperative infection is no different between patients exposed to and those unexposed to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors in the 12...
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Surgery shows no survival, morbidity benefit for mild hyperparathyroidism
A decade-long randomized trial shows nearly identical outcomes in most measures in patients with mild parathyroid tumors who did and did not...