VSG is promoted as a less invasive alternative to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, the bariatric surgery most frequently performed in the U.S. CTAF recently assessed the evidence for laparoscopic ...

This 2004 revision reflects those advances and presents evidence more systematically than the 1999 version did. Off-pump CABG, which avoids aortic cannulation and cardiopulmonary bypass ...

Along with MH, JA built the model, assisted with study design, and wrote sections of the manuscript. SF, MiH, AZ, KK, AM, MB, CM, KR, MM, GM, GC, NS, CL, and ZR contributed to the conception, design, ...

Antibiotics have natural functions, mostly involving cell-to-cell signaling networks. The anthropogenic production of antibiotics, and its release in the microbiosphere results in a disturbance of ...

For many years, in the surgeon’s locker room (which actually has much in common with other kinds of locker rooms), cardiac surgeons would mention to each other a phenomenon they often referred to as ...

Gastric cancer, or stomach cancer, is a type of cancer that begins in the mucus-producing cells on the inside lining of the stomach. The most common type of stomach cancer is adenocarcinoma. A ...

The Guideline Development Groups and the specialist committee consisted of paediatricians, general practitioners (GPs), paediatric and adult endocrinologists, bariatric surgeons, dieticians, ...