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Optimal indication for single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy in benign gallbladder diseases

Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery, 2022
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become a basic procedure for cholecystectomy due to rapid recovery and cosmetic satisfaction after surgery, and it is currently the primary treatment for most benign gallbladder diseases.
Min-Su Park
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Effect of Incisional Negative Pressure Wound Therapy vs Standard Wound Dressing on Deep Surgical Site Infection After Surgery for Lower Limb Fractures Associated With Major Trauma: The WHIST Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
Importance Following surgery to treat major trauma-related fractures, deep wound infection rates are high. It is not known if negative pressure wound therapy can reduce infection rates in this setting.
Matthew L. Costa, J. Achten, R. Knight, Julie Bruce, Susan J Dutton, Jason Madan, M. Dritsaki, N. Parsons, M. Fernandez, Richard Grant, J. Nanchahal   +10 more
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Effect of Prophylactic Negative Pressure Wound Therapy vs Standard Wound Dressing on Surgical-Site Infection in Obese Women After Cesarean Delivery: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
Importance Obesity increases the risk of both cesarean delivery and surgical-site infection. Despite widespread use, it is unclear whether prophylactic negative pressure wound therapy reduces surgical-site infection after cesarean delivery in obese women.
M. Tuuli, Jingxia Liu, A. Tita, S. Longo, A. Trudell, E. Carter, A. Shanks, C. Woolfolk, A. Caughey, D. Warren, A. Odibo, G. Colditz, G. Macones, Lorie M. Harper   +13 more
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ComplexWoundDB: A Database for Automatic Complex Wound Tissue Categorization [PDF]

, 2022
Complex wounds usually face partial or total loss of skin thickness, healing by secondary intention. They can be acute or chronic, figuring infections, ischemia and tissue necrosis, and association with systemic diseases. Research institutes around the globe report countless cases, ending up in a severe public health problem, for they involve human ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Early Wound Healing Score: a system to evaluate the early healing of periodontal soft tissue wounds [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose: Numerous indices have been proposed to analyse wound healing in oral soft tissues, but each has specific shortcomings. A new method of analysis, the Early Wound Healing Score (EHS), was evaluated in the present study.
Aghazada, Rustam, Marini, Lorenzo, Pilloni, Andrea, Rojas, Mariana Andrea, Sahrmann, Philipp   +4 more
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Prevalence of Multidrug-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis in Hospital-Acquired Surgical Wound Infections and Bacteremia: Concomitant Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes

Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background: The study aimed to assess the prevalence of Enterococcus faecalis infections among patients with hospital-acquired surgical wound sepsis and bacteremia in surgical wards and identify the antimicrobial susceptibility in these pathogens ...
M. Esmail, Hend M Abdulghany, Rasha M. M. Khairy   +2 more
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Risk Factors of Surgical Site Infection at Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania [PDF]

, 2012
Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common source of morbidity among operated patients. At Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), studies indicate that the rate of SSI has been increasing over the past thirty years.
Akoko, L.O., Fredrick, F., Mbembati, N.M., Mwanga, A.H.   +3 more
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Perioperative normothermia to reduce the incidence of surgical-wound infection and shorten hospitalization. Study of Wound Infection and Temperature Group.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1996
BACKGROUND Mild perioperative hypothermia, which is common during major surgery, may promote surgical-wound infection by triggering thermoregulatory vasoconstriction, which decreases subcutaneous oxygen tension.
A. Kurz, D. Sessler, R. Lenhardt
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Surgical and postsurgical wound care in hidradenitis suppurativa [PDF]

, 2020
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder. Several medical treatments, with varying degree of efficacy, have been developed. However, in most cases of advanced (HS), the definitive treatment option is often represented by surgical ...
Bigi, L., Garbarino, F., Magnoni, C., Manfredini, M., Pellacani, G.   +4 more
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A preliminary study of the effect of closed incision management with negative pressure wound therapy over high-risk incisions [PDF]

, 2015
Background Certain postoperative wounds are recognised to be associated with more complications than others and may be termed high-risk. Wound healing can be particularly challenging following high-energy trauma where wound necrosis and infection ...
A Colli, A Koski, A Li, A Wackenfors, A Wackenfors, AE Guille, BJ Stanley, CJ Jordan, D Herscovici Jr, DA Mendonca, David M. R. Sajik, DR Holt, DV Kipaldi, E Krug, EJ Harvey, EJ Timmenga, GI Taylor, GK Berry, GW Stanway, J Bertran, J Compston, J Kanis, JC Murrell, JP Stannard, JP Stannard, JS Weese, JT Thompson, JW Fox, Karen L. Perry, KV Lambert, L Holton, LJ Owen, Lynda Rutherford, M Demaria, M Pachowsky, MF Fay, Mieghan Bruce, MJ Allen, MJ Morykwas, MJ Morywkas, MJ Morywkas, MW Bohling, MW Bohling, N Fitzpatrick, NA Abidi, PC Bristow, PE Banwell, PE Banwell, PM Taylor, R Ben Amotz, R Burkhardt, R Petzina, RP Wilkes, S Karlakki, S Lindstedt, SA Robertson, SP Roch, SZ Chen, TJ Smith, WT DeCarbo   +59 more
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