Article Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: October 5, 2016
Patients who had an arteriovenous fistula created endovascularly using a new magnetic catheter system required fewer interventions and had fewer he...
Article Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: October 5, 2016
LAS VEGAS – A “fast-track” stenting method for endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) enabled patients to be treate...
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: September 15, 2016
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: September 15, 2016
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: August 30, 2016
Vascular surgeons called upon to provide intraoperative assistance should be prepared to undertake a wide range of repairs.
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: August 15, 2016
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: August 1, 2016
In their large database study, Dr. Peter A. Soden and his colleagues found that outcomes for the repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms were increasingl...
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: August 1, 2016
Key clinical point: Abdominal compartment syndrome is a dangerous and frequent complication after treatment of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms...
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: July 22, 2016
Key clinical point: Subtotal fenestrating cholecystectomy should be used liberally when surgeons have difficulty getting to the critical view of s...
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: July 20, 2016
BALTIMORE – Anatomic repair did not outperform physiologic repair in patients with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTG...
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: June 22, 2016
Key clinical point: Wedge resection outperformed SBRT in terms of mortality for early-stage NSCLC.
Major finding: In matched groups, SBRT was asso...
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: June 22, 2016
Key clinical point: Operative length, perioperative blood transfusions, and postoperative ICU admission were significant risk factors for readmissi...
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: June 18, 2016
Key clinical point: New lung cancer classification to become effective January 2017. Major finding: Size will now be a descriptor in all T categori...
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: June 1, 2016
The Pittsburgh perforation severity score (PSS) can be used to improve decision making in the management of esophageal perforation.
News Author: Mark S. Lesney Publish date: June 1, 2016
Routine preoperative pulmonary function tests (PFTs) appear to have only limited utility in predicting outcomes in patients undergoing cardiothoracic ...
