Background: Different abdominal surgeries could benefit from early feeding. Aims: To compare early feeding with traditional postoperative dietary management for development of postoperative gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. Settings and Design: A prospective randomized controlled study. Methods and Materials: This was a study of 110 patients who were randomly allocated to early feeding beginning ...

Abstract Aim Sternal wound infection (SWI) has always been a significant risk in patients who undergo sternotomies as part of their cardiac surgical procedures. Computed tomography (CT) imaging is often used to diagnose and assess sternal infections. Its purpose includes identifying locating any dehiscence. Method A systematic literature review across PubMed, Embase Ovid was performed according...

BACKGROUND The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling system is frequently unbalanced in human malignancies due to increased ligand production, receptor overexpression, receptor mutations, and/or cross-talk with other receptor systems. For this reason, the EGFR is an attractive target for anticancer therapy. The epidermal growth factor also plays an important role in regulating multi...

OBJECTIVES To clarify the evidence on smoking and postoperative healing complications across surgical specialties and to determine the impact of perioperative smoking cessation intervention. DATA SOURCES Cohort studies and randomized controlled trials. STUDY SELECTION Selected studies were identified through electronic databases (CENTRAL, MEDLINE, and EMBASE) and by hand searching. DATA E...

INTRODUCTION Sternal dehiscence, sternal wound infection and mediastinitis are troublesome complications following median sternotomy which are major causes of morbidity and mortality of patients. Synthetic polydioxanone absorbable suture seems effective in prevention of these complications in children undergoing open heart surgery. METHODS During 2 years period, 620 patients who underwent med...

The small animal surgeon creates wounds in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract for biopsy, for foreign body or neoplasm removal, or to relieve obstruction. Unlike a skin wound, dehiscence of a wound of the GI tract often leads to generalized bacterial peritonitis and potentially death. Technical failures and factors that negatively affect GI healing are of great clinical significance. Surgery of th...