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Surgical risk tests related to cardiopulmonary postoperative complications: comparison between upper abdominal and thoracic surgery
(Sociedade Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa em Cirurgia, 2013-06-01)
PURPOSE: To investigate if tests used in the preoperative period of upper abdominal or thoracic surgeries are able to differentiate the patients that presented cardiopulmonary postoperative complications. METHODS: Seventy ...
Hip fracture in the elderly: does counting time from fracture to surgery or from hospital admission to surgery matter when studying in-hospital mortality?
(Springer London Ltd, 2009-05-01)
This study aims to analyze whether the interval from hospital admission to surgery may be used as a surrogate of the actual gap from fracture to surgery when investigating in-hospital hip fracture mortality. After analyzing ...
Ambulatory surgery in proctology: retrospective analysis of 1 031 cases
(Soc Iberoamericana Informacion Cientifica-s I I C, 2008-06-01)
Introduction: The number of ambulatory surgeries accomplished in hospitals, as in private clinics, grows each day, with this increase having been observed principally in the last two decades. In many countries, such as ...
1913: Annus Mirabilis of Esophageal Surgery
(Georg Thieme Verlag Kg, 2013-09-01)
Although Sir Ronald Belsey once called the year 1904 annus mirabilis, it is actually the year 1913 that stands out as the true milestone in esophageal surgery. Within a year, Torek performed the first transpleural resection ...
Late outcome of right ventricular outflow tract repair using bicuspid pulmonary prosthesis in tetralogy of Fallot surgery repair: case report
(Soc Brasil Cirurgia Cardiovasc, 2009-10-01)
We present a case of a 19 year-old female patient, with tetralogy of Fallot and hypoplastic pulmonary ring. Diagnosis was performed by echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. The surgical repair was performed at the ...
Enzyme Biomarkers of Renal Tubular Injury in Arterial Surgery Patients
(Informa Healthcare, 2011-01-01)
Objective: The aim of this study was to verify whether preoperative diabetes, hypertension, and renal function had any relationship with postoperative tubule function in patients submitted to anesthesia for arterial surgery. ...
A CAD/CAM flapless surgical technique and immediate prosthesis: A clinical report
(2011-06-01)
Background: This article describes a clinical report with a new system for guided surgical treatment and immediate load prosthesis in the flapless surgical technique. Case report: Based on a computed tomography (CT) of a ...
Enxerto dermoadiposo em cavidades anoftálmicas secundárias - estudo retrospectivo e revisão da literatura
(Soc Brasileira Oftalmologia, 2011-11-01)
Purpose: To evaluate the dermofat graft in the anophthalmic socket treatment. Methods: A retrospective study including 28 anophthalmic cavity carriers treated with dermofat graft was carried out. The patients were analyzed ...
Declining use of orthopedic surgery in patients with rheumatoid arthritis? Results of a long-term, population-based assessment
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2003-04-15)
Objective. To describe the use of orthopedic surgery, including joint replacement surgery, in a well-defined, population-based cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to identify characteristics that predict ...
Effect of orthognathic surgery for class III correction on quality of life as measured by SF-36
(Churchill Livingstone, 2008-02-01)
The purpose of this work was to evaluate the quality of life of patients with Angle's class III malocclusion submitted to orthognathic surgery. Twenty-nine patients of both sexes, ranging in age from 17 to 46 years, with ...