Anna Da Roit

TL;DR: This international survey highlighted variation in surgical technique and management of anastomotic leak based on case volume and country income level and further research is needed to understand the impact of this variation on patient outcomes.

TL;DR: CEA associated with BMT seems preferable to BMT alone in preventing the risk of ipsilateral ischemic events, without translating into a longer survival.

TL;DR: Sleep disturbance at diagnosis can successfully predict patients who can develop sleep disturbance during the postoperative period and the use of hypnotics is neither completely successful nor lacking in possible consequences.

TL;DR: The results of this study show that eversion CEA can be performed in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with an extremely low perioperative stroke/death risk and a negligible incidence of late restenosis/occlusion, thus assuring a persistently good protection against the risk of cerebral ischemia.

TL;DR: The development of GTC should be taken into consideration during the extended follow-up of patients undergoing esophagectomy for cancer and total gastrectomy plus lymphadenectomy should be considered the preferred treatment modality in operable patients with locally invasive tumor, when endoscopy is contraindicated.