INTRODUCTION Preoperatively elevated serum creatinine (SCr) is considered an independent risk factor for morbidity and mortality after cardiac surgery. The aim of this study was to apply the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes classification for acute kidney injury in a population of patients with preoperatively elevated serum creatinine who underwent cardiac surgery (coronary artery bypas...

Department of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA; Adjunct Professor, School of Community and Global Health, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA Walter D. Johnson: [email protected] Corresponding author Received March 12, 2013; Accepted March 12, 2013. Copyright : © 2013 Johnson WD This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons At...

For low and middle countries, the local surgeons and physicians should dictate, direct, and deliver the care for their people; therefore, their priorities are paramount. We have an opportunity to help, advise, and support their efforts and perhaps enable improvements in the timely delivery of basic care. Although we cannot ‘‘fix’’ their problems, we do have the opportunity to partner with our c...

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Hospital launched a Global Surgery Fellowship in 2009 to furnish future surgical leaders with the academic, clinical, and administrative skills of global surgery, public health, and surgical systems development. Endowed fellowship positions---both clinical and research-based---combined with master’s programs in public health or business administration will allow a really new generation of surge...

C urrently there is no established standard of care for central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). The conditions that are targeted by current treatments are neovascularization and macular edema. Panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) is accepted as an established treatment for neovascularization, but a consensus has not yet been reached on the indications for and timing of the procedure. Recent large-s...

1 School of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Hous...