Conference Coverage
Latest News
Telemedicine Reduces Rehospitalization, Revascularization in Post-PCI ACS Patients
“The TELE-ACS protocol provided a significant reduction in readmission rates post-ACS and other adverse events.”
Conference Coverage
Minimally Invasive Cytoreductive Approach Comparable to Open Surgery for Ovarian Cancer
There were no differences in survival for patients with complete gross resections who underwent interval debulking via laparoscopy/robotics or...
Conference Coverage
Non-Radical Surgery a Win-Win for Early Cervical Cancer
Researchers assessed changes in bladder function and sexual function, and other functional outcomes of QOL in patients who had a non-radical...
Latest News
High Cesarean Rates Persist in Obesity Despite Standardized Protocols
Data suggest physiologic differences as potential contributors to increased cesarean rates in patients with obesity.
Conference Coverage
Are There Benefits to Taking GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Before Joint Surgery?
Two new studies looked at the effects of the weight-loss drugs on rates of complications after hip replacement procedures. The results were mixed...
Conference Coverage
Regrowth Predicts Metastasis in Rectal Cancer Watch and Wait
Investigators compared outcomes for ‘watch-and-wait’ patients with those who had total mesorectal excisions after neoadjuvant therapy.
Conference Coverage
GLP-1s Face Off Against Each Other, Weight-Loss Surgery in New GI Studies
“While clinical trials have been conducted to assess the weight-loss efficacy of GLP-1 agonists, there has been limited head-to-head comparisons,...
Conference Coverage
Less is more for axillary surgery in early breast cancer
Women with early breast cancer can safely undergo less extensive axillary surgery because it has no impact on recurrence or mortality rate.
Conference Coverage
COVID livers are safe for transplant
Using livers from deceased patients with COVID-19 could be an opportunity expand organ availability.
Conference Coverage
More than one-third of adults in the US could have NAFLD by 2050
Findings suggest that health care systems should prepare for “large increases” in cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and need for liver...
Latest News
Prognostic tool identifies alcohol relapse risk after liver transplant
An S-DAT score could one day serve as a screening tool for patients at risk of alcohol relapse after a liver transplant.