Another factor is significant weight loss. Loss of the subcutaneous tissue barrier between the pulse generator and the skin can result in erosion, especially if the pocket is subjected to some form of trauma. Most of the eroding pockets seen by the author were placed in the subcutaneous fatty ...
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cancers and may adversely affect treatment options.1A multi-modal approach to peri-operative care has been shown to improve patient outcomes.2The aim of this study was to audit nutritional practices, including enhanced recovery principles in patients undergoing oesophago-gastric resection in NHS ...
In the UK sore throats cost the NHS an estimated £60 million in GP consultations alone, result in 90,000 tonsillectomy procedures, approximately half of which are in children, and a loss of more than 35 million school or work days annually[1]. The incidence of tonsillectomy has risen si...
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a chronic condition that is one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness in people over 50 years of age. AMD is the most common cause of vision loss in the western world, and globally is the third most common cause after cataracts and glaucom...
The REBALANCE study [6••] included all the relevant comparators (both surgical and non-surgical options) that were identified through a systematic review of RCTs, and modelled over a lifetime horizon. From a UK NHS per- spective, the generalisability of the results in the systematic ...
Intra-operative blood loss was recorded as minimal (n = 1), negligible (n = 3) or none (n = 7). Clinical observations of the recovery pigs post-operatively revealed no signs of ill health or distress, and all recovery pigs gained weight post-surgery. Overall, recovery pigs...
A fifty-one year old woman presented with weight loss and vague epigastric pain. Three years previously, she had undergone a wide local excision and axillary dissection for a right sided breast lump. Postoperative histology showed a completely excised grade II invasive carcinoma (T2) with associate...
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Systemic treatment options for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are limited [2]. As such, improved pre-clinical studies are required to develop novel therapies. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its advanced form, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), are recognized as the liver disease ...