Rau, B., Pralle, U., Uhl, W., Schoenberg, M.H. and Beger, H.G. (1995) Management of sterile necrosis in instances of severe acute pancreatitis. Journal of The American College of Surgeons, 181." 279-288. Background: The clinical management of sterile pancreatic necrosis is still a matter of debate. In this study we analyzed the clinical course and outcome of patients with sterile necrotizing pa...

CONTEXT Functional humeral bracing remains the gold standard for treatment of humeral shaft fractures. There is an increasing trend in the literature to perform operative fixation of these fractures. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION The aim of this systematic review was to compare the level one evidence for the outcome of non-operative with operative management of humeral shaft fractures in adults. A com...

The main objective of aortic valve replacement (AVR) is to relieve left ventricular (LV) burden and normalized LV mass (LVM). During AVR, many surgeons make final decision to select the size of the prosthetic valve based on intraoperative measurement. It is ideal to place an aortic prosthesis that is appropriately sized to the patient. However, this is not always possible owing to insufficient ...

e fi rst edition of Morbid Obesity: Peri-operative Manage ment, published in 2005, was heralded as an important and timely comprehensive review of perioperative care of morbidly obese surgical patients. Adrian Alvarez has built on the success of the fi rst book and, with the help of three new editors, has presented a concise and well-written text about the complexities of dealing with morbidly ...

Co-Operative Air Traffic Management (COATM) is a concept under exploration at NASA Ames Research Center for transformation of aircraft and air traffic management operations towards the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS). A goal of the CO-ATM concept is to provide a scalable framework to significantly increase NAS capacity and efficiency while maintaining safety. A second goal of ...

Acute pancreatitis comprises a range of diseases. Clinical manifestations range from mild symptoms to a life-threatening or life-ending process. Operative management is focused on managing the acute complications, the long-term sequelae, or the prevention of recurrent pancreatitis. Using the least amount of intervention is the goal. However, the evolution of videoscopic and endoscopic technique...

A 53-year-old woman with assimilation of the atlas to the occiput presented with paraesthesiae in the right half of her tongue and ipsilateral neck pain aggravated by head turning. After being intermittent for several years, the symptoms eventually became persistent and increasingly incapacitating. At operation, the C2 spinal nerves were found to be compressed by protuberant atlanto-axial joint...