Objective: This study aims to evaluate and identify the main preoperative risk factors affecting the timely discharge of day surgery patients, offering evidence to enhance preoperative assessments and minimize delayed discharge. Background: With the...
Background/Objectives: Plastic and reconstructive surgery (PRS) is characterized by its wide range of techniques and procedures, aiming to address the need for individualized treatment approaches. As PRS is predominantly performed in an elective and...
Objective: This research seeks to explore and determine the principal pre-surgical risk elements associated with unplanned readmissions following day surgery, providing evidence-based guidance for clinical practice to optimize preoperative evaluation...
9 August 2022
Background: Preoperative anxiety has adverse effects on children and negative impacts on postoperative rehabilitation. Anesthesiologists can accurately identify children with preoperative anxiety, and individualized intervention can effectively impro...
Background/Objectives: Nutritional status affects postoperative outcomes, but the effect of standardized preoperative nutritional preparation on morbidity in malnourished patients undergoing pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) remains unclear. This study eval...
Postoperative delirium (POD) is an acute alteration of mental state, characterized by reduced awareness and attention, occurring up to five postoperative days after recovery from anesthesia. Several original studies and reviews have identified possib...
Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) remains one of the most serious complications after total joint arthroplasty. This retrospective 1:1 matched case–control study investigated preoperative predictors and patient phenotypes associated with PJI...
Perioperative and long-term postoperative major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. In selected high-risk patients, when information about cardiovascular statu...
Background/Objectives: Digital health technologies are increasingly integrated into perioperative care to standardize information delivery and improve patient empowerment. However, the overall effectiveness of preoperative education depends not only...
Background: This prospective study aims to determine whether preoperative stair-climbing tests (SCT) predict postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC) better than self-reported poor functional capacity (SRPFC) in patients with known or suspected CO...
Currently, multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) is not an indication for patients with very low-risk prostate cancer. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the usefulness of mpMRI as a diagnostic tool in these patients. We retrospectively...
Background and Objectives. Hernia recurrence is still a great challenge for surgeons regarding the optimal surgical technique, the best alloplastic material and the management of risk factors (advanced age, female sex, body mass index, smoking, diabe...
Perioperative morbidity and mortality remains a substantial problem and is strongly associated with patients’ cardiac comorbidities. Guidelines for the cardiovascular assessment and management of patients at risk of cardiac issues while undergo...
Background: Despite steady improvements in cardiac surgery-related outcomes, our understanding of the physiologic mechanisms leading to perioperative mortality remains incomplete. Intraoperative hypotension is an important risk factor for mortality a...
Adequate preoperative evaluation of frailty can greatly assist in the efficient allocation of hospital resources and planning treatments. However, most of the previous frailty evaluation methods, which are complicated, time-consuming, and can have in...
Background: Periprosthetic infections represent a major challenge for doctors and patients. The aim of this study was therefore to determine whether the risk of infection can be positively influenced by preoperative decolonization of the skin and muc...
Background: Cervical cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women globally. Currently, treatment is primarily based on tumor staging; however, discrepancies between preoperative and postoperative tumor staging remain a significant...
Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) poses a challenging complication for many patients undergoing arthroplasty, and the literature identifies numerous risk factors. A comprehensive understanding of the primary risk and protective factors for PJI is...
Accurate risk stratification selects patients who are expected to benefit most from surgery. This retrospective study enrolled 225 Japanese patients with intrahepatic cholangiocellular carcinoma (ICC) who underwent hepatectomy between January 2009 an...
Background: The phase angle (PhA) can be used for prognostic assessments in critically ill patients. This study describes the perioperative course of PhA and associated risk indicators in a cohort of elective cardiac surgical patients. Methods: The P...
Preoperative identification of high-risk groups has been extensively studied to improve patients’ outcomes. Wearable devices, which can track heart rate and physical activity data, are starting to be evaluated for patients’ management. We...
27 December 2022
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a standard treatment for patients with gallstones in the gallbladder. However, multiple risk factors affect the probability of conversion from laparoscopic cholecystectomy to open surgery. A greater understanding of th...
Malignant soft-tissue sarcoma resection is associated with a relatively high incidence of surgical site infection (SSI). The known risk factors for SSI following soft-tissue sarcoma resection include tumor size and location, prolonged surgery, and ma...
Background: Infectious complications are common after percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). Clinical guidelines recommend, previous to surgery, prolonged antibiotic regimens in patients with preoperative positive urine cultures to reduce infectious ri...
Background/Objectives: Cataract surgery is an often-sought solution to the universal problem of lens opacification. Studies of perioperative anxiety have yielded conflicting results, reporting a high prevalence but low clinical significance. The obje...
Introduction: Corticosteroid injections have demonstrated short-term benefits for shoulder pain. This symptomatic treatment method is used in various inflammatory conditions that affect the shoulder joint. Corticosteroid joint injections are not with...
Background and Objectives: Peritoneal dialysis (PD)-related peritonitis is a critical problem. However, preoperative risk factors for PD-related peritonitis have not been established. Thus, we aimed to determine the preoperative risk factors for PD-r...
Postoperative delirium is a common complication after liver transplantation (LT). A high model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score is an independent risk factor for postoperative delirium, but it is unclear which of the components of this score...
Objectives: We evaluated the effect of preoperative chest computed tomography (CT) screening on the perioperative stroke rate in cardiosurgical patients at risk of aortic calcification. Methods: Between May 2019 and April 2020, 129 patients at risk o...
Approximately 10% (176 million) of women of reproductive age worldwide suffer from endometriosis, which has a high rate of postoperative recurrence. The objective of this study was to investigate the risk factors of severe endometriosis and establish...
Patients with high-grade endometrial carcinoma (EC) have an increased risk of tumor spread and lymph node metastasis (LNM). Preoperative imaging and CA125 can be used in work-up. As data on cancer antigen 125 (CA125) in high-grade EC are limited, we...
Background and Objectives: Hip surgery is increasingly performed among elderly patients. Oral antithrombotics, which are taken for patients’ underlying diseases, are a main concern regarding perioperative bleeding. Postoperative venous thromboe...
Preoperative radiotherapy increases the risk of postoperative wound complication in the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma (STS). This study aims to develop a nomogram for predicting major wound complication (MaWC) after surgery. Using the Oxford Unive...
The current study investigated the impact of preoperative fall risk assessment score (FRAS) on long-term prognoses in patients with esophageal cancer (EC). A total of 161 patients with EC who underwent curative surgery were classified into a high-ris...
Background/Objectives: While methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization is a known risk factor for surgical site infections, no definitive recommendations exist regarding preoperative S. aureus screening and decolonization protoc...
We investigated the possible associations between postoperative delirium (POD) and routinely available preoperative inflammatory markers in patients undergoing lumbar spinal fusion surgery (LSFS) to explore the role of neuroinflammation and oxidative...
Background: The assessment of cardiac risk is challenging for elderly patients undergoing major orthopedic surgery with preoperative functional limitations. Currently, no specific cardiac risk scores are available for these critical patients. Echocar...
High- and low-risk endometrial carcinoma (EC) differ in whether or not a lymphadenectomy is performed. We aimed to develop MRI-based radio-genomic models able to preoperatively assess lymph-vascular space invasion (LVSI) and discriminate between low-...
The MIB-1 index is an important risk factor for progression-free survival (PFS) in pituitary adenoma (PA). Preoperatively, the MIB-1 index is not available in the decision-making process. A preoperative method regarding MIB-1 index estimation in PA h...
Background and Objectives: Postoperative pancreatic fistula after cephalic pancreatoduodenectomy (CPD) is still the leading cause of postoperative morbidity, entailing long hospital stay and costs or even death. The aim of this study was to propose t...
We aimed to investigate the association of preoperative copeptin, a new cardiovascular biomarker, with short- and long-term mortality in a cohort of adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery, including its potential as a prognostic marker for clinica...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between preoperative inflammation and postoperative complications in gastric cancer patients having elective gastrectomy. Participants in this study were those who underwent radical gastrec...
The utility of comprehensive surgical staging in patients with low risk disease has been questioned. Thus, a reliable means of determining risk would be quite useful. The aim of our study was to create the best performing prediction model to classify...
This study was performed to investigate the relationship between patients’ activity and function levels and the incidence of preoperative deep venous thrombosis (DVT) prior to total hip arthroplasty (THA). We retrospectively reviewed 500 patien...
Background: Postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) is associated with major postoperative morbidity and mortality. Several scoring systems have been described to stratify patients into risk groups according to the...
Objectives: Several conditions associated with type A aortic dissection may require preoperative invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV). The current literature lacks data on this subset of patients’ prevalence and postoperative outcomes. This st...
Background/Objectives: Major limb amputation is associated with high short-term mortality, yet practical preoperative risk models remain limited. This study aimed to identify easily obtainable preoperative predictors of in-hospital mortality after li...
The need for cholecystectomy during pediatric age has significantly increased in the last two decades. As biliary pathology increases, the probability of complicated cholecystectomies increases too. The aim of this article is to analyze our experienc...
26 July 2010
We sought to describe outcome of surgical repair in patients presenting with orbital blowout fractures. This noncomparative, retrospective, consecutive case series reviewed the case notes of 63 consecutive patients who underwent surgery for a blowout...
While studies have demonstrated an association between preoperative hypoalbuminemia and adverse clinical outcomes, the optimal serum albumin threshold for risk-stratification in the broader surgical population remains poorly defined. We sought define...
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