OBJECTIVES: To assess factors influencing short-term outcomes of vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) repairs in community-dwelling women of Liberia, Africa. METHODS: Forty patients who underwent VVF repairs were analyzed. Primary outcome was continence status at 14 days post repair. Factors influencing continence status were characterized. RESULTS: The mean duration of leakage was 9.6 ± 8.3 years, (3...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Ventral hernia repairs continue to have high recurrence rates. The surgical literature is lacking data assessing the time trend to hernia recurrence after ventral hernia repairs and whether over time the recurrence rates change with laparoscopic technique compared to open repairs. Our aim was to carry out a long-term comparative analysis of ventral hernia repairs perf...

We conducted a study to compare the clinical results and operative times of knotted and knotless fixation of anterior and posterior glenohumeral labral repairs and superior labrum anterior to posterior (SLAP) repairs. We retrospectively evaluated data that had been prospectively collected from a Surgical Outcomes System database. Knotted and knotless techniques for 226 repairs (59 isolated ante...

The outcome of 260 repairs of the radial and posterior interosseous nerves, graded by Seddon's modification of the Medical Research Council Special Committee's system, was analysed according to four patterns of injury; open 'tidy', open 'untidy', closed traction, and those associated with injury to the axillary or brachial artery. We studied the effect on the outcome of delay in effecting repai...

OBJECTIVES This study compared the biomechanical fatigue strength of calcium phosphate augmented repairs versus autogenous bone graft (ABG) repairs in lateral tibia plateau fractures. METHODS Eight matched pairs of tibias (six male, two female; age, 75 ± 14 years) were harvested from fresh-frozen cadavers. Reproducible split-depression fractures were simulated and repaired by an orthopaedic t...