Showing papers in "International Journal of Surgery in 2021"

TL;DR: The preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) statement as discussed by the authors was designed to help systematic reviewers transparently report why the review was done, what the authors did, and what they found.

TL;DR: In order to maintain relevance and continue upholding good reporting quality among observational studies in surgery, this paper aimed to update STROCSS 2019 guidelines, which were developed in 2017 and updated in 2019.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive and critical evaluation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientific research and funding, as well as academic medical and surgical training.

TL;DR: Evidence is still insufficient and too heterogeneous to allow any definite conclusions regarding costs of interventions, but the results suggested screening tests and social distancing to be cost-effective alternatives in preventing and controlling COVID-19 on a long-time horizon.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on incidence, treatment strategies, severity, length of hospital stay and time of presentation in adults and children with acute appendicitis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the qualitative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical training in the United Kingdom (UK) and Republic of Ireland (ROI) by distributing a pan-surgical specialty questionnaire.

TL;DR: A broad range of risk factors for postoperative delirium (POD) have been suggested in the literature across multiple surgical specialities and no accurate prognostic models exist as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a literature search was conducted on PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and IEEExplore according to PRISMA 2020 statement to identify and discuss current limitations and challenges.

TL;DR: An interpretive analysis of the updated PRISMA statement is presented, with a view towards encouraging its adoption by both journals and authors in the pursuit of advancing evidence-based medicine.

TL;DR: Surgical interventions were associated with better pain relief but a higher incidence of complications, and endoscopic decompression as a novel and less invasive surgical approach may be a good choice for LSS patients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the efficacy and outcomes of conservative versus surgical management of acute appendicitis during the Covid-19 pandemic were evaluated in a tertiary referral centre in the UK.

TL;DR: The superiority of virtual reality in the skill transfer from training room into operating room needed to be confirmed and complemented with further analyses and the cost-effectiveness and patient safety were badly in need of discussion.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the clinical implications of fluorescence imaging-guided lymphadenectomy and the sensitivity of fluorescent lymphography to detect metastatic LN stations in gastric cancer (GC).

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic literature search was conducted using Pubmed and EMBASE, using the Mesh terms and key words "POCD", "Pathogenesis", "Influencing factors", and "Prevention strategies" to review the progress in diagnosis, pathogenesis and risk factors and control strategy of postoperative cognitive dysfunction.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to investigate donation after circulatory death (DCD) graft outcomes compared to donation after brain death (DBD), and the results showed that long-term DCD kidney transplant outcomes are similar to DBD despite a higher risk of PNF, DGF, and a 13% increased risk of graft loss in the first year after transplantation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a systematic literature search, querying electronic databases and Google Scholar, for studies that reported the outcome of the SASI bypass, and the main outcome measures of the review were change in body mass index (BMI), % of excess weight loss (%EWL), improvement in comorbidities, and complications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the prognosis of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and hepatic resection (HR) for patients with colorectal cancer liver metastases.

TL;DR: A systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to estimate the worldwide incidence of general surgical site infections and identify associated factors in adult general surgical patients was conducted in this article, where the primary outcome was cumulative incidence of SSI occurring up to 30 days postoperative.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a meta-analysis on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to determine the effectiveness and safety of RFA on pain and knee function in individuals with knee OA.

TL;DR: Choi et al. as discussed by the authors used artificial intelligence approaches and multi-center registry data to analyze the recurrence of pancreatic cancer after surgery and its major determinants, including tumor size, tumor grade and lymphovascular invasion.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis was performed based on contemporary studies to evaluate the prognostic effect of hemodynamic parameters on rupture of intracranial aneurysm.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper applied conditional survival analysis to depict exact survival for patients who have survived for specific year and standardized difference (d) was used to evaluate the differences between subgroups in CS analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that future work can be focused on enhancing systems to facilitate long-term follow up and care, expanding availability and adoption of electronic medical record systems, and collaboration with local surgeons in the development of international cross-organizational registries and standardized quality measures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the absolute and risk-adjusted in-house lethality as well as the rate of complications and the failure to rescue after abdominal surgery in Germany.

TL;DR: In this article, the feasibility, safety, and potential benefits of robotic assisted thyroidectomy (RT) were compared with traditional open thyroidectomy with a total of 30 studies with 6622 patients.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to assess if Rapid Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone (ioPTH) monitoring is able to reduce the incidence of persistent or recurrent primary hyperparathyroidism.