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Combined Surgical Treatment of Ocular Complications Developing from Facial Nerve Palsy: Case Report

open access: yes, 2013
A 71-year-old man who had developed right facial nerve palsy after acoustic neuroma resection was referred to our eye clinic with ocular complications. Due to the brow ptosis, he could not open his right eye properly.
Aziz Serkan Topaloğlu
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A Low Psoas Muscle Index Was Associated With a Poorer Overall Survival in Patients Who Underwent Percutaneous Nephrostomy

open access: yesAging and Cancer, EarlyView.
In patients with malignant ureteral obstruction undergoing percutaneous nephrostomy, sarcopenia defined by a low psoas muscle index was independently associated with poor overall survival on multivariate Cox regression analysis, suggesting that preoperative assessment of psoas muscle index may aid prognostic stratification in this population.
Kota Shimokihara   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding and Mitigating the Risk of Accelerated Biological Aging in Survivors of Cancer: A Scoping Review

open access: yesAging and Cancer, EarlyView.
Cancer treatment is associated with measurable acceleration of biological aging across epigenetic, telomere, senescence, and immune biomarkers. However, biomarker validation and interventional strategies remain limited, especially in hematologic malignancies, underscoring the need for standardized multi‐omic aging assessments and adequately powered ...
Moataz Ellithi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neurologic Complications in Surgical Patients

open access: yes, 2017
Neurologic complications in surgical patients can be directly related to surgery, indirectly related to hospitalization, or related to the exacerbation of underlying medical conditions. Presentation and differential diagnosis of some common complications
E. Lee Murray, Karl E. Misulis
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Ethical Foreground and Background in Adult Educator Work

open access: yesNew Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adult educators work in a complex ethical environment. The very act of contributing to the learning of another is fraught with moral overtones. In this paper we consider the ethical dimensions of adult educator practice by distinguishing the ethical features of the context or ‘background’ of practice from the ethical capabilities and decision ...
Steven Hodge, Sonal Nakar
wiley   +1 more source

Metabolic syndrome and surgical complications: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 13 million individuals [PDF]

open access: yes
Background: Metabolic syndrome is characterised by the presence of at least three of the five following components: insulin resistance, obesity, chronic hypertension, elevated serum triglycerides and decreased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ...
Gow, Jeff   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

Application of three-step laparoscopic cholecystectomy combined with indocyanine green fluorescence imaging in acute difficult cholecystitis

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine
IntroductionThis study aimed to evaluate the clinical value of three-step laparoscopic cholecystectomy combined with indocyanine green (ICG)-guided fluorescence imaging in patients with complicated acute cholecystitis.MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed ...
Jian-Yuan Lin   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comprehensive Assessment of Arterial, Tissue, and Venous Collaterals for Evaluating the Infarct Growth Rate: The Multimodal Collateral Score

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Collaterals are crucial factors that influence the infarct growth rate (IGR). We aimed to determine whether a comprehensive multimodal collateral score (MCS), incorporating collateral assessment at the arterial, tissue, and venous levels, is associated with functional independence and provides incremental prognostic value over ...
Giorgio Busto   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endoscopic management of surgical complications

open access: yes, 2018
Development of endoscopic devices to manage surgical complications has revolutionized the endoscopic industry. With the constant development of new endoscopic techniques, these devices have consistently pushed the envelope of endoluminal surgery ...
Bowles-Cintron, Robert J   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Antiplatelets and anticoagulants in glaucoma surgery and laser

open access: yesOman Journal of Ophthalmology
With the increasing prevalence of cardiovascular diseases, it has become common for patients to be on different classes of anticoagulant medications. The blood-thinning characteristic of these drugs makes them essential for the management of long-term ...
Hemlata Udenia   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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