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Short-Course Vasoconstrictors After EVL: Time for a New Standard of Care?
“This approach would allow earlier discharge from the hospital and reduce the risk of adverse events,” said Dr. Sushrut Ingawale.
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Weight Loss Surgery, Obesity Drugs Achieve Similar Results but Have Different Safety Profiles
Although all interventions were associated with reductions in percentage total weight loss compared with placebo, RYGB led to the greatest...
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Postoperative Chronic Pain: Experts Urge Better Recognition
It is important to mobilize general practitioners to “detect patients sliding toward opioid overconsumption” and refer them to the appropriate...
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Obesity Therapies: What Will the Future Bring?
“I believe that obesity won’t be cured in the future, but we will have increasingly better lifelong management with a multidisciplinary approach...
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NCCRT Confirmed as Best Approach in Locally Advanced, Resectable ESCC
Researchers compred neoadjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy with adjuvant sequential chemoradiotherapy (ASCRT) in locally advanced esophageal...
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Will New Obesity Drugs Make Bariatric Surgery Obsolete?
“Efficacy of drugs is measured in weeks or months, whereas efficacy of surgery is measured in decades of durability.”
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Skip Potassium After Cardiac Surgery
Postoperative atrial fibrillation risks is not altered with potassium supplementation for patients who recently had CV surgery, says study.
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Significant Benefit with Liver Transplantation in ACLF: CHANCE Study
The findings highlight “the inadequacy of current transplant allocation criteria for patients with ACLF 2 and 3,” said Dr. Rajiv Jalan.
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What Does Natural Healing of ACL Ruptures Mean for Long-Term Outcomes?
Evidence mounts that the anterior cruciate ligament may heal without surgery, but the long-term outcomes are only beginning to be evaluated.
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Diabetes/Weight Loss Med Linked to Repeat Spinal Surgery
Medical complications were driven by higher rates of urinary tract and acute kidney infections, not by surgical complications in the semaglutide...
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How Medicare Reimbursement Trends Could Affect Breast Surgeries
A new study showed a decline in Medicare reimbursements for breast cancer surgery by more than 20% from 2003 to 2023.