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Browsing by Subject "surgery"
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A Smartphone App With a Digital Care Pathway for Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery: Development and Feasibility Study.
(JMIR perioperative medicine, 2020-10-16)<h4>Background</h4>There is a great unmet clinical need to provide patients undergoing spinal surgery and their caregivers with ongoing, high-quality care before and after surgery in an efficiency-focused health ... -
Analysis of the Impact of Early Surgery on In-Hospital Mortality of Native Valve Endocarditis
(2010-03)Background— The impact of early surgery on mortality in patients with native valve endocarditis (NVE) is unresolved. This study sought to evaluate valve surgery compared with medical therapy for NVE and to identify ... -
Esophageal Perforation Following Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery: Case Report and Review of the Literature.
(Global spine journal, 2017-04)Multicenter retrospective case series and review of the literature.To determine the rate of esophageal perforations following anterior cervical spine surgery.As part of an AOSpine series on rare complications, a retrospective ... -
High-impact chronic pain transition in surgical recipients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, 2022-01)<h4>Objective</h4>High-impact chronic pain (HICP) is a recently proposed metric that indicates the presence of a severe and troubling pain-related condition. Surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is designed ... -
Identifying the Burden of Pediatric Surgical Disease in Somaliland
(2018)Background: A staggering 5 billion people worldwide lack access to safe and affordable surgery, and surgical conditions contribute to up to 32% of the global disease burden. However, precise data on the burden of surgical ... -
Levels of Surgical Disease and Predictors of Barriers to Care in Rural India
(2012)An estimated 234.2 million major surgical procedures are performed annually worldwide, yet the wealthiest third of the world's population receives 73.6% while the world's poorest third receives only 3.5%. Approximately one-third ... -
Management of Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Review of the Literature.
(Frontiers in surgery, 2021-01)Traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) is a debilitating disease that poses significant functional and economic burden on both the individual and societal levels. Prognosis is dependent on the extent of the spinal injury and ... -
Operative versus nonoperative treatment for adult symptomatic lumbar scoliosis at 5-year follow-up: durability of outcomes and impact of treatment-related serious adverse events.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, 2021-04)<h4>Objective</h4>Although short-term adult symptomatic lumbar scoliosis (ASLS) studies favor operative over nonoperative treatment, longer outcomes are critical for assessment of treatment durability, especially for operative ... -
Patient Safety Incidents Caused by Poor Quality Surgical Instruments.
(Cureus, 2019-06)<h4>Objectives</h4>Surgeons require high-quality surgical instruments to carry out successful procedures. Poor quality instruments may break intraoperatively leading to a failed procedure or causing harm to the patient. ... -
Patient-reported outcome measure clustering after surgery for adult symptomatic lumbar scoliosis.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, 2022-01)<h4>Objective</h4>Adult symptomatic lumbar scoliosis (ASLS) is a widespread and debilitating subset of adult spinal deformity. Although many patients benefit from operative treatment, surgery entails substantial cost and ... -
Prospective multicenter assessment of complication rates associated with adult cervical deformity surgery in 133 patients with minimum 1-year follow-up.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, 2020-06)<h4>Objective</h4>Although surgical treatment can provide significant improvement of symptomatic adult cervical spine deformity (ACSD), few reports have focused on the associated complications. The objective of this study ... -
Surgical outcomes in rigid versus flexible cervical deformities.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, 2021-02)<h4>Objective</h4>Cervical deformity (CD) patients have severe disability and poor health status. However, little is known about how patients with rigid CD compare with those with flexible CD. The main objectives of this ... -
The Effect of Propofol Versus Isoflurane Anesthesia on Human Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers of Alzheimer's Disease: Results of a Randomized Trial.
(J Alzheimers Dis, 2016-04-15)BACKGROUND: Preclinical studies have found differential effects of isoflurane and propofol on the Alzheimer's disease (AD)-associated markers tau, phosphorylated tau (p-tau) and amyloid-β (Aβ). OBJECTIVE: We asked whether ... -
The Influence of Elective Surgery on Health in Veterans with Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(2012)Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common, chronic, and associated with greater risk of postoperative mortality in veterans. Therefore, the purpose of this dissertation was to determine if elective outpatient surgery ... -
Treatment of adult thoracolumbar spinal deformity: past, present, and future.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, 2019-05)Care of the patient with adult spinal deformity (ASD) has evolved from being primarily supportive to now having the ability to directly treat and correct the spinal pathology. The focus of this narrative literature review ...
