Long-Term Follow-up of Surgical Patients Born Cyanotic

1986 ◽  
pp. 1320-1322
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Neill
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Patients ◽  
Long Term Follow Up

Long-Term Follow-Up of Surgical Patients Extolled

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
KAREN DENTE
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Patients ◽  
Long Term Follow Up

Long-term Follow-up of Surgical Patients of Microlumbar Discectomy

2014 ◽  
pp. 328-328
Author(s):  
PS Ramani ◽  
Sudhendoo Babhulkar ◽  
Sumeet Pawar ◽  
Shradha Maheshwari
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Patients ◽  
Long Term Follow Up

scholarly journals Implications for Telemedicine for Surgery Patients After COVID-19: Survey of Patient and Provider Experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (8) ◽  
pp. 907-915 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Zhu ◽  
John Williamson ◽  
Andrew Lin ◽  
Kathryn Bush ◽  
Abraham Hakim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preoperative Evaluation ◽  
Surgical Patients ◽  
Consent Rate ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Charlson Comorbidity Score ◽  
Postoperative Setting ◽  
High Degree

Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has expanded the utilization of telemedicine in clinical practice to minimize potential risks to both patients and providers. We aim to describe the perception of telemedicine by both surgical patients and providers to understand the preferences for future incorporation in future surgical practice. Methods An anonymous survey was administered to providers that transitioned clinic visits to telemedicine encounters since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the second part of the study, patients who underwent video telemedicine appointments answered survey questions via telephone. Results Twenty-six out of 36 (72.7%) providers responded. Over 75% reported that they could effectively communicate with patients over telemedicine. Six (23.1%) reported that they could adequately assess surgical sites. Of 361 patients, 187 consented to the study (consent rate 51.8%). Among patients, the most common result to choose a telemedicine appointment was to avoid the risk of COVID-19 transmission (84, 44.9%), though the minority reported that they would choose telemedicine after the pandemic (64, 34.2%). Those patients who would choose an in-person visit were more likely to have a higher Charlson Comorbidity Score, body mass index, and use friends or family for transportation. In open-ended feedback, patients suggested that telemedicine would be better suited for long-term follow-up rather than the immediate postoperative setting. Conclusions Patients and providers reported a high degree of satisfaction using telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic but noted concern with limited physical examinations. Telemedicine may be suited for preoperative evaluation and medium-term and long-term postoperative follow-up for surgical patients.

scholarly journals The Long Term Follow-Up of Body Mass Indexes of Neonatal Surgical Patients Fed with Total Parenteral Nutrition

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Şaduman DİNÇER ◽  
Engin GÜNEL ◽  
Kemal Tahir ŞAHİN ◽  
Müslim YURTÇU ◽  
Adnan ABASIYANIK
Keyword(s):  
Parenteral Nutrition ◽  
Total Parenteral Nutrition ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Surgical Patients ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Body Mass Indexes

scholarly journals Causes of peripheral cytopenia in hepatitic cirrhosis and portal hypertensive splenomegaly

2017 ◽  
Vol 242 (7) ◽  
pp. 744-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunfu Lv ◽  
Wan Yee Lau ◽  
Hongfei Wu ◽  
XiaoYu Han ◽  
Xiaoguang Gong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bone Marrow ◽  
Portal Hypertension ◽  
Clinical Data ◽  
Hepatic Cirrhosis ◽  
Clinical Evidence ◽  
Surgical Patients ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Long Time

The clinical data of 183 patients with hepatitic cirrhosis and portal hypertensive splenomegaly complicated by peripheral cytopenia were retrospectively analyzed to investigate the causes of peripheral cytopenia, as well as the proportion of the causes in these patients. All patients underwent splenectomy. Before operation, these patients had one or more types of peripheral cytopenia (cumulative cytopenia: 390 patient-times). After splenectomy, blood counts in 79.2% (309/390) returned to normal, while in 15.9% (62/390) they increased but failed to reach to normal levels, and in 4.9% (19/390) they became lower than before the operations. For the last group of patients ( n = 19), long-term follow-up showed that blood counts returned to normal in five patients. In other words, in 80.5% [(309 + 5)/390 or 314/390] of patient-times, the peripheral cytopenia was due to hypersplenism, in 15.9% it was due to a combination of factors, and in 3.6% [14/390] it had nothing to do with the hypersplenism. Thus, hypersplenism is a major cause, but not the only cause, of peripheral cytopenia in patients with hepatic cirrhosis and portal hypertensive splenomegaly, and splenectormy is an effective treatment for these patients. Impact statement For a long time, the development of peripheral cytopenias as a complication to cirrhotic portal hypertension has been attributed to hypersplenism; however, this has never been fully demonstrated. Dameshek summarized that hypersplenism should be diagnosed by the presence of four conditions: (a) mono- or multi-lineage peripheral cytopenias; (b) compensatory hyperplasia of bone marrow; (c) splenomegaly; and (d) correction of cytopenias after splenectomy. We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data from 183 surgical patients, and found that 80.5% of peripheral cytopenias was caused by hypersplenism, 16% by a combination of factors, and 3.5% by other factors unrelated to hypersplenism. As the first quantitative findings in this field, our results verify that hypersplenism is a major, but not exclusive, cause of peripheral cytopenias, and provides important clinical evidence for investigating the cause of peripheral cytopenias.

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

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