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A systematic review and meta-analysis of conventional laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy versus robot-assisted laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy (RALSC) has spread rapidly without the availability of comprehensive and systematically recorded outcome data.

Dec 9 2015 26797199

Endoscopic autologous cartilage injection for the patulous eustachian tube.

Patulous eustachian tube (PET) can have a significant negative impact on a patient's quality of life. Several methods of surgical management can be an option to treat PET, and our objective is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of autologous cartilage injection in patients with PET. Thirty-three ears of twenty-five patients with chronic PET refractory to conservative treatment were enrolled to th...

Dec 9 2015 26954856
An autopsy case of cardiac tamponade caused by a ruptured ventricular aneurysm associated with acute myocarditis.

We report an autopsy case of hemopericardium caused by rupture of a ventricular aneurysm associated with acute myocarditis in an infant boy aged 2 yea...

Dec 8 2015 26832375
The Prevalence of HIV in Cancer Patients at the Surgical Oncology Unit of Donka University Hospital of Conakry (Guinea).

Aim. To determine the prevalence of HIV infection among patients seen at the surgical oncology unit of Donka (Conakry, Guinea). Method. We conducted a...

Dec 3 2015 26770197
Bile acids synthesis decreases after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.

BACKGROUND: Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment alternative in morbid obesity. The mechanisms contributing to these benefits remain poor...

Dec 2 2015 26948941
Unusual late presentation of metastatic extrathoracic thymoma to gastrohepatic lymph node treated by surgical resection.

In advanced stages, thymic tumors tend to spread locally. Distant metastatic disease is rare. We present the first report of single metastatic abdomin...

Nov 30 2015 26620540
Effects of Ropivacaine on Postoperative Pain and Peak Expiratory Flow Rate in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy.

BACKGROUND: Postoperative analgesic effects of ropivacaine have been demonstrated in various surgical procedures; however, its beneficial effect on po...

Nov 29 2015 26866007
Evolutionary multiobjective design of a flexible caudal fin for robotic fish.

Robotic fish accomplish swimming by deforming their bodies or other fin-like appendages. As an emerging class of embedded computing system, robotic fi...

Nov 25 2015 26601975
Goserelin acetate before transurethral resection of moderately enlarged benign prostatic hyperplasia: Prospective randomised-controlled clinical trial.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of a luteinising hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist, goserelin acetate (GA), on surgical blood loss during tra...

Nov 21 2015 26966595
Intravenous Paracetamol Versus Patient-Controlled Analgesia With Morphine for the Pain Management Following Diagnostic Knee Arthroscopy in Trauma Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

BACKGROUND: Most patients undergoing outpatient surgeries have the unpleasant experience of high level pain after surgery. Compared with open surgerie...

Nov 21 2015 26848478
An Analytic Model for the Success Rate of a Robotic Actuator System in Hitting Random Targets.

Autonomous robotic systems are increasingly being used in a wide range of applications such as precision agriculture, medicine, and the military. Thes...

Nov 20 2015 26610500
Indications for staging laparoscopy in pancreatic cancer.

BACKGROUND: To identify indications for staging laparoscopy (SL) in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer, and suggest a pre-operative algorithm ...

Nov 18 2015 26776846
Intraoperative monitoring of stroke volume variation versus central venous pressure in laparoscopic liver surgery: a randomized prospective comparative trial.

BACKGROUND: Central venous pressure (CVP) is used as a marker of cardiac preload to control intraoperative blood loss in open hepatectomies, while its...

Nov 17 2015 26902132
First ALPPS procedure using a total robotic approach.

BACKGROUND: ALPPS procedure is gaining interest. Indications and technical aspects of this technique are still under debate [1]. Only 4 totally laparo...

Nov 14 2015 26856770
Time-of-flight-assisted Kinect camera-based people detection for intuitive human robot cooperation in the surgical operating room.

BACKGROUND: Scene supervision is a major tool to make medical robots safer and more intuitive. The paper shows an approach to efficiently use 3D camer...

Nov 14 2015 26567093
The relationship of blood transfusion with peri-operative and long-term outcomes after major hepatectomy for metastatic colorectal cancer: a multi-institutional study of 456 patients.

BACKGROUND: Data on prognostic implications of peri-operative blood transfusion around resection of colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRLM) are conf...

Nov 14 2015 26902139
Prediction of Protein-Protein Interaction Sites with Machine-Learning-Based Data-Cleaning and Post-Filtering Procedures.

Accurately predicting protein-protein interaction sites (PPIs) is currently a hot topic because it has been demonstrated to be very useful for underst...

Nov 12 2015 26563228
Making the cut: improved ranking and selection for large-scale inference.

Identifying leading measurement units from a large collection is a common inference task in various domains of large-scale inference. Testing approach...

Nov 8 2015 27570475
eNAL++: a new and effective off-line correction protocol for rotational setup errors when using a robotic couch.

Cone-beam CTs (CBCTs) installed on a linear accelerator can be used to provide fast and accurate automatic six degrees of freedom (6DoF) vector displa...

Nov 8 2015 26699569
Neutrophil Elastase Inhibitor Following Liver Resection: A Matched Cohort Study.

BACKGROUND: Sivelestat is a neutrophil elastase inhibitor (NEI) with positive impact on the respiratory complications in thoracic surgery. Based on th...

Nov 7 2015 26834789
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