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Total Knee Arthroplasty: Superiority of Intra-Articular Tranexamic Acid Over Intravenous and Cell Salvage as Blood Sparing Strategy – A Retrospective Study

open access: yesJournal of Blood Medicine, 2022
Miguel Coelho, Catarina Bastos, Jose Figueiredo Anesthesiology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga, Aveiro, PortugalCorrespondence: Miguel Coelho, Anesthesiology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga, Av.
Coelho M, Bastos C, Figueiredo J
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The involvement of cation leaks in the storage lesion of red blood cells.

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2014
Stored blood components are a critical life-saving tool provided to patients by health services worldwide. Red cells may be stored for up to 42 days, allowing for efficient blood bank inventory management, but with prolonged storage comes an unwanted ...
Joanna F Flatt   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Survival benefit of adjuvant therapy completion with early initiation for patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Adjuvant completion with early initiation may contribute to the improved survival of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Abstract Aim To evaluate the prognostic effect of initiation timing and completion of adjuvant therapy in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Kenjiro Okada   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Can Eastern/Southern Mediterranean Countries Resolve Quality and Safety Issues in Transfusion Medicine?

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2018
Unlike their Western counterparts, some of the Eastern/Southern Mediterranean countries lack centralized coordinated blood transfusion services leading to an unequal blood safety level. This was recently highlighted by a recent World Health Organization (
Antoine Haddad   +5 more
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Effect on short‐term outcomes of the COVID‐19 pandemic following laparoscopic distal gastrectomy and low anterior resection for gastric and rectal cancer: A retrospective study using the Japanese National Clinical Database, 2018–2022

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Mortality and anastomotic leakage, two very important complications assessed in SMR, did not worsen during the pandemic compared to prepandemic levels. In Japan, laparoscopic surgery was safe and unaffected by the COVID‐19 pandemic even in 2022, when the epidemic spread.
Masafumi Inomata   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Surgeon’s dilemma: should I save patient’s life at any cost?

open access: yesStudia Medyczne, 2017
Every doctor practicing treatment in the field of medicine may be confronted with a serious question: should I save my patient’s life at any cost? If a doctor resigns from emergency procedures, he/she will risk the patient’s death.
Kamila Kocańda, Stanisław Głuszek
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Optimal duration of antimicrobial prophylaxis in patients undergoing distal pancreatectomy: A multicenter cohort study

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Prolonged administration of antimicrobial prophylaxis might not be effective to prevent surgical site infections after distal pancreatectomy compared to intraoperative or up to 24‐h administration. Abstract Background Antimicrobial prophylaxis is routinely administered in patients undergoing distal pancreatectomy, with cephalosporins being the most ...
Kenjiro Okada   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Osteopenic occult vertebral fracture is associated with poor oncological outcome in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after hepatic resection

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Osteopenic occult vertebral fracture (OVF) was associated with poor long‐term outcomes in patients with HCC after hepatic resection. Osteopenic OVF had a poorer prognosis than that of patients with either osteopenia or OVF. Abstract Background Although osteopenia has been associated with poor outcomes in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC ...
Koichiro Haruki   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Rising stars in red blood cell physiology: 2022

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2022
Angelo D’Alessandro
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