Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Electronic address: jocelyn.srigley@cw.bc.ca.
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va; Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex. Electronic address: audra.iness@bcm.edu.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is often withheld in patients with significant neurologic injury or recent neurosurgical intervention due to perceived futility. Studies of neurosurgical int...
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We retrospectively reviewed adults at four institutions who had undergone neurosurgical procedures immediately before or during ECMO from 2015 to 2023. The primary outcome was survival to hospital dis...
Patients with acute neurologic injury can feasibly undergo neurosurgery during ECMO or can undergo ECMO after recent neurosurgery. Larger studies are needed to fully understand risks for bleeding and ...
In Pakistan, there are a total of 160 neurosurgeons that constitute a ratio of one neurosurgeon for a 5.5 million population. Gilgit Baltistan being a backward region does not have a single tertiary c...
This is a retrospective cross-sectional study conducted at Regional Headquarter Hospital (RHQ) Gilgit in which data of patients operated for neurosurgical diseases between January 2020 and January 202...
Of the total of 223 patients, 148 (66.3%) were males and 75 (33.6%) were females. A total of 92(41.2%) belonged to the pediatric age group. The top most diagnosis included Neurotrauma (46.6%), NTDs (1...
This study shows different kinds of neurosurgical cases but because of a lack of diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, very limited operations were performed and many cases were referred to metropoli...
Deliberate mild hypothermia is safer from the point of view of adverse events and does not require a specific technique, unlike deep or moderate hypothermia. Therefore, mild hypothermia was widely use...
The management of perioperative venous thrombembolism (VTE) prophylaxis is highly variable between neurosurgical departments and general guidelines are missing. The main issue in debate are the dose a...
All elective surgeries performed at our neurosurgical department between 01/2018-08/2022 were investigated regarding the occurrence of VTE. The VTE risk and associated mortality were compared between ...
VTE occurred after 38 elective procedures among > 12.000 surgeries. The number of VTEs significantly differed between groups with an incidence of 31/6663 (0.47%) in the CHEMO group and 7/6688 (0.1%) e...
The use of combined mechanical and pharmacologic VTE prophylaxis can significantly reduce the risk of postoperative thromboembolism after neurosurgical procedures and, therefore, reduce mortality and ...
Achondroplasia is an autosomal dominant disorder mainly affecting bony growth, typically resulting in markedly short stature. From a neurosurgical viewpoint, patients sometimes develop spinal cord com...
Growth data were collected from achondroplasia patients who visited our institution between January 2002 and August 2022. First, we constructed percentile growth curves of height, weight, and HC for t...
There were 125 achondroplasia patients, including 67 males and 58 females. Among 125 patients, 46 underwent FMD, and 5 underwent VP shunt. As short stature and macrocephaly were typical characteristic...
Growth references for height, weight, and HC in young achondroplasia patients were constructed. It is the first report of growth patterns of achondroplasia in Korea. Unlike other pediatric patients, t...
Little is known about the real-world status of neurosurgical treatment of myelomeningocele patients....
To investigate the real-world status of neurosurgical treatment of myelomeningocele patients, medical claims data provided by the Japan Medical Data Center (JMDC) were analyzed....
The health claims data of 556 patients with myelomeningoceles from January 2005 to March 2020 were examined. The number of neurosurgical procedures, including myelomeningocele repair, tethered cord re...
A total of 313 neurosurgical procedures were performed for 135 patients in 74 institutions during the study period. The shunt survival rate was most affected by shunts that were revised when the patie...
In this study, a revised shunt of less than 1 year of age and CSF drainage before shunting were the factors that lowered the shunt survival rate in the real world for CSF shunts for hydrocephalus asso...
This review systematically examines the recent research from the past decade on diverse path-planning algorithms tailored for stereotactic neurosurgery applications. Our comprehensive investigation in...
Overlapping surgery (OS) is a common practice in neurosurgery that has recently come under scrutiny. This study includes a systematic review and meta-analysis on articles evaluating the effects of OS ...
This study explores the protective capabilities of bicycle helmets on serious head injury among bicyclists hospitalized in a Norwegian level 1 trauma centre....
Information on helmet use, demographic variables, Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and surgical procedure codes was retrieved from the Oslo University Hospital Trauma Registry for patients with bicycle-...
A total of 1256 hospitalized bicyclists were included. The median age was 41 years (quartiles 26-53), 73% were male, 5.3% had severe pre-injury comorbidities, and 54% wore a helmet at the time of inju...
Helmet use was associated with fewer and less severe head injuries and fewer neurosurgical procedures. This adds evidence to the protective capabilities of bicycle helmets....
Computed tomography (CT), Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and 3D reconstruction from Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) are currently used in clinical consultations for patients diagnosed with in...
A 3D-printed model of a middle cerebral artery aneurysm was created for use during patient consultations to discuss microsurgical treatment of unruptured cerebral aneurysms. In total, 38 patients and ...
The 3D model improved the patients' understanding of the diagnosis, the aneurysm's relationship to the parent artery; the treatment process as well as the risks if left untreated. The patients found t...
Using a 3D model improves communication, enhances the patient's understanding of the pathology and its treatment and potentially facilitates the informed consent process in patients undergoing intracr...
