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A Novel Bio-Adhesive Mesh System for Medical Implant Applications: In Vivo Assessment in a Rabbit Model

Gels, 2023
Injectable surgical sealants and adhesives, such as biologically derived fibrin gels and synthetic hydrogels, are widely used in medical products. While such products adequately adhere to blood proteins and tissue amines, they have poor adhesion with ...
Melinda Harman, Kevin Champaigne, William Cobb, Xinyue Lu, Varun Chawla, Liying Wei, Igor Luzinov, O. Thompson Mefford, Jiro Nagatomi   +8 more
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Risk factors and management of vaginal mesh erosion after pelvic organ prolapse surgery

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2017
Objective: Mesh erosion is a serious and not uncommon complication in women undergoing vaginal mesh repair. We hypothesized that mesh erosion is associated with the patient’s comorbidities, surgical procedures, and mesh material.
Yung-Wen Cheng, Tsung-Hsien Su, Hsuan Wang, Wen-Chu Huang, Hui-Hsuan Lau   +4 more
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The challenges faced in the design, conduct and analysis of surgical randomised controlled trials [PDF]

, 2009
Randomised evaluations of surgical interventions are rare; some interventions have been widely adopted without rigorous evaluation. Unlike other medical areas, the randomised controlled trial (RCT) design has not become the default study design for the
Jonathan A Cook, Cook, Jonathan Alistair, Cook, JA, Cook Jonathan A   +3 more
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Prediction of Pelvic Organ Prolapse Postsurgical Outcome Using Biomaterial-Induced Blood Cytokine Levels: Machine Learning Approach

JMIR Perioperative Medicine, 2023
BackgroundPelvic organ prolapse (POP) refers to symptomatic descent of the vaginal wall. To reduce surgical failure rates, surgical correction can be augmented with the insertion of polypropylene mesh.
Mihyun Lim Waugh, Nicholas Boltin, Lauren Wolf, Jane Goodwin, Patti Parker, Ronnie Horner, Matthew Hermes, Thomas Wheeler, Richard Goodwin, Melissa Moss   +9 more
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Surgical management for upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma [PDF]

, 2011
Background Upper tract transitional cell carcinomas (TCC) are uncommon and aggressive tumours. There are a number of surgical approaches to manage this condition including open radical nephroureterectomy and laparoscopic procedures.
El-Mokadem, Ismail, Ismail El-Mokadem, Bhavan Prasad Rai, Nabi, Ghulam, Mike Shelley, Biyani, Chandra S., Bernadette Coles, Chandra S Biyani, Ghulam Nabi, Coles, Bernadette, Shelley, Mike, Rai, Bhavan Prasad   +11 more
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Laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy vs. transperineal mesh repair for obstructed defecation syndrome associated with rectocele: comparison of selectively distributed patients

BMC Surgery, 2023
Purpose Obstructed defecation syndrome represents 50–60% of patients with symptoms of constipation. We aimed to compare the two frequently performed surgical methods, laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy and transperineal mesh repair, for this condition ...
Bengi Balci, Sezai Leventoglu, Igbal Osmanov, Beyza Erkan, Yasemin Irkilata, Bulent Mentes   +5 more
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Challenges in evaluating surgical innovation [PDF]

, 2009
Research on surgical interventions is associated with several methodological and practical challenges of which few, if any, apply only to surgery. However, surgical evaluation is especially demanding because many of these challenges coincide.
Ergina, Patrick L, Seiler, Christoph M, Boutron, Isabelle, Blazeby, Jane M, Cook, Jonathan Alistair, Clavein, Pierre-Alain, Reeves, Barnaby C   +6 more
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Evaluation of the effectiveness using nanomodified polipropilene meshes at laparoscopic operations of a hernia of a stomach

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2020
In laparoscopic surgical treatment of incisional abdominal hernia (AH) of great sizes, using polypropylene mesh, buth this is accompanied by a fairly high freguency of postoperative complications from the postoperative wound.In our view, the use of a ...
Ruslan Lutkovskyi
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Web-based modelling with applications to surgical training [PDF]

, 2002
Web-based surgical training has the potential to offer a cheap training platform, accessible from anywhere in the world, at any time. However the use of web-based VR for training faces a number of challenges including fast collision detection and real ...
Li, Ying
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Mesh-related complications in single-incision transvaginal mesh (TVM) and laparoscopic abdominal sacrocolpopexy (LASC)

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2020
Objective: Few studies have investigated the long-term impact of synthetic mesh reconstructive surgery for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) on patient outcomes.
Yi-Ling Li, Yu-Wei Chang, Tsai-Hwa Yang, Ling-Ying Wu, Fei-Chi Chuang, Fu-Tsai Kung, Kuan-Hui Huang   +6 more
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