期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2022; 17 (1)
Background Emergency laparotomy (EL) has a high mortality rate. Clinically, frail patients have a poor tolerance for EL. In recent years, sarcopenia h......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2022; 17 (1)
Objective Viscoelastic hemostatic assay (VHA) provides a graphical representation of a clot's lifespan and reflects the real time of coagulation. It h......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2022; 17 (1)
Introduction Laparoscopic colectomy is rarely performed for ischemic colitis. The aim of this propensity score-matched study was to compare preoperati......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2022; 17 (1)
Background While emergency laparotomy has been associated with high rates of postoperative mortality and adverse events, preoperative systematic evalu......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2022; 17 (1)
Background This paper compares the postoperative recovery of patients with acute appendicitis (AA) after laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) and open appen......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2021; 16 (1)
Immunocompromised patients are a heterogeneous and diffuse category frequently presenting to the emergency department with acute surgical diseases. Di......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2021; 16 (1)
On January 2020, the WHO Director General declared that the outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The world has fac......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2021; 16 (1)
Background To conduct a meta-analysis to assess the safety and efficacy of prophylactic transcatheter arterial embolization (PTAE) for the treatment o......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2021; 16 (1)
Background There is controversy regarding the efficacy of different treatment strategies for acute left malignant colonic obstruction. This study inve......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2021; 16 (1)
Purpose Laparoscopic treatment for acutely incarcerated/strangulated inguinal hernias is uncommon and controversial. In the present study, we assessed......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2021; 16 (1)
Background Intussusception is the most common abdominal emergency in children. The first line treatment of uncomplicated pediatric intussusception is ......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2020; 15 (1)
Background The number of bariatric procedures is increasing worldwide. No consensus or guidelines about the emergency management of long-term complica......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2020; 15 (1)
Appropriate measures of infection prevention and management are integral to optimal clinical practice and standards of care. Among surgeons, these mea......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2020; 15 (1)
Acute colonic diverticulitis is one of the most common clinical conditions encountered by surgeons in the acute setting. An international multidiscipl......
期刊: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY, 2020; 15 (1)
Background A novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak began in Wuhan, Hubei Province, in December 2019; the outbreak was caused by a novel coronavirus pre......