When most people think of ultrasound they picture a noninvasive diagnostic toolperhaps a sonogram during pregnancy
Surgical Site Infections SSIs are among the most common healthcareassociated infections posing substantial challenges
Clinicians have struggled with the capricious nature of predicting surgical outcomes for hundreds of years If one wanders of the beaten track to the basement of the Louvre in Paris you will come across a black diorite plinth inscribed with hieroglyphics from the time of King Hammurabi of Babylon Figure As early as BC he was issuing edicts aimed at...
The substantial developments in surgery over the last century with the advent of antiseptic substance anaesthetic agents antibiotics surgical nutrition and organ transplantation did not modify the basic tools of surgery and even the surgical techniques remained basically unchanged But in the last few decades invasiveness has been the focus of surgi...
As a result of a degenerative process aortic valve stenosis AS is among the most common valvular diseases in developed countries with an increasing incidence with increasing age approximately for those years of age and for those years of age In patients over the age of the incidence of persistent perioperative complications and mortality
