Announcement of contents of the January 2023 issue of Neurosurgical Focus
Historically plastic surgery has been considered one of most competitive and highly sought after residency programs. While this remains true recent appearing wrinkles may be of concern, according to an article in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
A roundup of the latest medical discoveries and faculty news at Cedars-Sinai.
Nearly one-fourth of breast cancer patients who start breast reconstruction after mastectomy don't complete the reconstructive process. The concept of reconstructive burnout is introduced and discussed in a study in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
Computer vision model outperforms surgeons when identifying types of spinal implants.
For selected patients with knee osteoarthritis, unicompartmental (or "partial") knee arthroplasty (UKA) shortens the recovery time for two key measures of physical function, as compared with total knee arthroplasty (TKA), reports a randomized trial in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio in partnership with Wolters Kluwer.
University Hospitals (UH) today announced the completion of the first arthroscopic surgeries in Ohio, and amongst the first ever, using the new ArthroFree® Wireless Camera System. ArthroFree is the first wireless surgical camera system to receive market clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in broad endoscopic applications including arthroscopy.
The University of Chicago Medicine transplant team performed the health system's first donated-after-circulatory death (DCD) heart transplant on Nov. 19, 2022. The DCD technique is expected to help heart patients get transplants faster. Donor hearts are traditionally recovered from brain-dead donors, a process known as donation after brain death (DBD).
Golden State Dermatology (GSD) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the dermatology practice of Emil Tanghetti, MD located in Sacramento, CA. The new partnership expands GSD's network to 28 practices across the San Francisco Bay and California's Central Valley and Sacramento Valley.
To ensure that surgeons worldwide, particularly military surgeons, keep their skills sharp and maintain their clinical readiness, the Uniformed Services University (USU), in conjunction with the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the Military Health System Strategic Partnership American College of Surgeons (MHSSPACS), and the University of California, Davis, has developed a new resource – the Military Clinical Readiness Curriculum, or “mCurriculum.”
Researchers funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) at the University of Bristol have developed ‘stem cell plasters’ to revolutionise the way surgeons treat children living with congenital heart disease, so they don’t need as many open-heart operations.
Patients who are satisfied with their physicians are more likely to follow through with metabolic or bariatric surgery (MBS) regardless of racial or ethnic group, according to a study led by researchers at UTHealth Houston.
The Penn Transplant Institute at Penn Medicine has opened a new Center for Living Donation which will expand Penn’s exceptional care for living donors, helping to maximize the number of lives saved through liver and kidney transplantation. For the thousands waiting on a lifesaving organ, living donation—when a living person donates an organ, or part of an organ, for transplantation to another person—can help those in need receive life-saving care sooner.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the targeted imaging agent Cytalux (pafolacianine) for use in lung cancer surgery. This injectable diagnostic binds to cancerous tissue and glows when stimulated by near-infrared light, making it easier for surgeons to remove tumors completely while sparing healthy tissue. Thoracic surgeons at the Center for Precision Surgery in the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine led the clinical trials evaluating the imaging agent in lung cancer, in a partnership with On Target Laboratories.
The world-renown journal Nature, named Muhammad Mohiuddin, MD, DSc, Program and Scientific Director of the Cardiac Xenotransplantation Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), on its annual list of 10 people who helped shaped science in 2022.
Youth who underwent metabolic and bariatric surgery as teenagers are at heightened risk for alcohol use, according to the first study to document long-term alcohol use and associated issues in this population. Researchers found that after eight years, nearly half of study participants had alcohol use disorders, symptoms of alcohol-related harm, or alcohol-related problems. Results were published in the journal Annals of Surgery.
Participation in the American College of Surgeons Children’s Surgery Verification (CSV) Quality-Improvement Program led to significant reductions in operating room wait times and improvement in other key metrics for children treated for traumatic femur fractures.
Dr. Ryan Kaple joins structural heart colleagues Dr. Tilak Pasala and Dr. Lucy Safi to offer advanced clinical trials and surgical systems that enhance patient outcomes
Recognition is part of Hackensack Meridian Health’s leadership in the care of New Jersey’s geriatric population
UC San Francisco surgeons have performed the health system’s 20,000th solid organ transplant, making it just the third in the nation to reach that milestone. The surgery also marked UCSF Health’s first donation after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplant, a procedure performed by only about twenty health systems in the U.S.
When patients undergo any type of surgery after having had COVID, their odds of significant postoperative problems diminish with elapsed time from COVID diagnosis. Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center now report that this trend of decreasing risk persists longer than previously known, for as long as 13 months after surgery. Their report appeared Dec. 14 in JAMA Network Open.
UC San Diego Health has been named a Center of Excellence for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) by the PKD Foundation – the leading advocacy group dedicated to finding treatments and a cure for PKD. UC San Diego Health is one of just 28 institutions nationwide to receive this designation.
Celebrating one of the largest gifts ever to Michigan Medicine of $50 million, the health system will name its new hospital for longtime philanthropists D. Dan and Betty Kahn. The $920 million facility will include 264 private inpatient rooms capable of converting into intensive care, a top-notch neurosciences center, and specialty services for cardiovascular and thoracic care. It will also feature 20 surgical and three interventional radiology suites.
In an analysis of hospitals across the state of Michigan, University of Michigan researchers found that Black patients were more likely to undergo emergency surgery for colorectal cancer than other races and ethnicities. Emergency surgery was associated with a higher rate of complications, including death.
The mCurriculum provides quick, easy to use modules that are freely available online for surgeons to access whenever they need to hone their surgical skills.
An orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) performed the first augmented reality-guided spine surgery in New York State: a successful spinal decompression and fusion on a 28-year-old male patient.
Low-intensity ultrasound therapies may one day rebuild stronger knees following injury or surgery, thanks to research by Dr. Anu Subramanian at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) that’s being supported by the National institutes of Health.
Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is a vascular condition affecting millions of people in the United States in which veins in the leg cannot efficiently carry blood back to the heart for oxygenation. For patients suffering from the condition, malfunctioning valves can cause blood to flow backwards and pool in the veins in the legs, which can lead to significant downstream affects for some people.
A newly updated clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) provides recommendations on the use of radiation therapy and systemic therapy after surgery to treat patients with endometrial cancer. The guideline also considers the role of surgical staging and molecular profiling techniques in determining whether a patient should receive post-operative therapy. The guideline is published in the January/February 2023 issue of Practical Radiation Oncology.
Vast improvements in ankle replacement implants, technology and surgical techniques have made ankle replacement surgery a viable option for many patients suffering from severe arthritis. A Long Island woman says the surgery gave her a new lease on life.
Henry Ford Health Orthopedic researchers looked at steroids as part of a multi-modal pain control regimen and an alternative to using opioids after outpatient knee replacement. The study won the 2022 American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Clinical Research Award.
Researchers are using a natural material derived from seaweed to promote vascular cell growth, prevent blood clots and improve the performance of synthetic vascular grafts used in heart bypass surgery.
The Neurosurgery Research & Education Foundation (NREF) is pleased to announce a new grant program – the NREF Early Career Neurosurgeon Fellowship. Applications will be available through the NREF website beginning December 1, 2022. The NREF Early Career Neurosurgeon Traveling Fellowship is designed for neurosurgical residents, fellows and early-career neurosurgeons interested in a subspecialty experience away from their home neurosurgery program.
Announcement of contents of the December 2022 issue of Neurosurgical Focus
UC Davis Health is the first multi-site health system in the nation to implement a low-pressure insufflation systemwide for laparoscopic surgeries.
Operating room (OR) personnel who rethink how they deliver surgical care to focus more on sustainability interventions could substantially reduce hospital costs and decrease their ever-growing carbon footprint.
After healing, minor facial scars have little or no effect on ratings of attractiveness – while some scars are even linked to more favorable ratings, suggests a survey study in the December issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
Patients who undergo surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome and other upper extremity nerve compression syndromes are more likely to have a diagnosis of migraine headaches, reports a study in the December issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
La regeneración del músculo esquelético y los síntomas de la incontinencia urinaria por esfuerzo en una investigación preclínica indican una mejora tras el uso de una sustancia acelular descubierta en Mayo Clinic. Los equipos del Dr. en Ciencias Atta Behfar y del Dr. Emanuel Trabuco encabezaron esta investigación en una colaboración entre los Departamentos de Medicina Cardiovascular y de Obstetricia y Ginecología de Mayo Clinic. El artículo se ha publicado en NPJ Regenerative Medicine.
临床前研究中的再生骨骼肌和压力性尿失禁的症状表明，在使用妙佑医疗国际(Mayo Clinic) 发现的无细胞物质后，症状有所改善。Atta Behfar医学博士/博士和Emanuel Trabuco医学博士的团队在妙佑医疗国际心血管医学部和妇产科之间开展合作，领导了这项研究。这篇论文发表在NPJ Regenerative Medicine上。
Músculo esquelético regenerado e sintomas de incontinência urinária por esforço em pesquisa pré-clínica sugerem melhora após o uso de uma substância livre de células descoberta na Mayo Clinic. As esquipes do Dr. Atta Behfar, Ph.D. e do Dr. Emanuel Trabuco lideram a pesquisa em uma colaboração entre os Departamentos de Medicina Cardiovascular e de Obstetrícia e Ginecologia da Mayo Clinic. O artigo foi publicado na revista NPJ Regenerative Medicine.
The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has selected board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon Tyler Gunn, MD, to be the director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, or ECMO, Program in the Department of Cardiac Surgery.
Patients undergoing abdominal surgery for ostomy placement have high rates of hospital readmissions and emergency department visits – often involving ostomy-related complications, reports a study in the November/December issue of the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing, the official journal of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses (WOCN®) Society.
The number of surgeries performed on Black, Latino, and Asian children is significantly lower than among white children in the United States, a UT Southwestern study has found.
Loyola Medicine has announced the appointment of Jeffrey Schwartz, MD, as chair of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) and Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Schwartz first joined the medical staff at LUMC in 1998. He inherits a department with a strong legacy of excellence led previously by Mamdouh Bakhos, MD, who served as department chair for more than 30 years. "Dr. Bakhos is one of the preeminent cardiothoracic surgeons of his generation, he has been a great mentor to me and has had an invaluable impact on my career and success to date," said Dr. Schwartz. "I'm humbled to inherit his legacy and carry the torch forward."
Benefits for Patients Include Access to Advance Treatment Options Ensuring Better Outcomes and Less Recovery Time
Arthrex and Richard Wolf, global leaders in minimally invasive surgical technology and solutions, announced a U.S.-based partnership to offer comprehensive technology and product offerings in urology, gynecology and general surgery.
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