we conducted a 2-year randomized controlled trial involving 60 severely obese patients comparing lagb with conventional weight loss therapy for the management of moderate to severe osa. methods patients with obesity and osa were recruited from 7 melbourne, australia, sleep clinics between september ...
prediction model for the surgical difficulty of laparoscopic rectal cancer surgery, to identify preoperative independent predictors of surgical difficulty that consequence the difficulty of the surgery, and consequently, to help medical surgeons to develop personalized surgical options for their patients ...
Duplicates were excluded after importing the studies into Covidence review software (Veritas Health Innovation, Melbourne, Australia). Titles and abstract screening for inclusion or exclusion were independently conducted by two reviewers. Where there were disagreements between ...
Non-Resectional Locoregional Therapy Thermal ablation Local therapy options use targeted energy to destroy tumor cells. Such thermal ablation can be done by cool- ing, in the case of cryoablation, or by heating tumor with high-energy radio waves. Given the wider use of the latter, we will ...
Depending on the cause, type and severity of urinary incontinence as well as your lifestyle, treatment approaches available to you may include weight loss, exercises, medications, bladder retraining (timed voiding), biofeedback, electrical stimulation, and if all else fails, then surgery. ...
abdominal hernia repair and more recently for the surgical repair of vaginal tissue in women with POP, however their use is now severely restricted due to company withdrawal of vaginal mesh and regulatory authority bans on their use in many countries including the USA, UK, Australia and New ...
However, this was not the case when assuming that 1-kg weight loss is maintained beyond 5 years (in this case the intervention was cost-effec- tive for all age groups). This further highlights the impor- tance of varying the weight regain assumption. For the higher BMI groups, the cost ...
Non-Resectional Locoregional Therapy Thermal ablation Local therapy options use targeted energy to destroy tumor cells. Such thermal ablation can be done by cool- ing, in the case of cryoablation, or by heating tumor with high-energy radio waves. Given the wider use of the latter, we will ...
The management of stage IV colorectal cancer with liver metastases has historically involved a multidisciplinary approach. In the last several decades, there have been great strides made in the therapeutic options available to treat these patients with a
Based on these considerations, the overall goal of fluid management should typically be a positive fluid balance at the end of surgery of ~ 1 L. This should be sufficient to avoid hypovolemia and AKI, while limiting substantial postoperative weight gain (> 2.5 kg/days) which is associat...