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Can preoperative computed tomography scans provide patient frailty assessments that are associated with outcomes of abdominal surgery?

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Pre-transplant Use of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for HCC
American Journal of Transplantation
doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.…
🔎 RWD🇨🇳, 83 pts
👉27.7% developed allograft rejection, mortality: 6/83
👉≥ 30 days before TX protective
🤔feasible, but relevant risk
ESMO - Eur. Oncology ILCA EASLnews #livertwitter

Dr Neil Spenceley with a powerful keynote in the perils of error counting, root cause analysis, and focusing on what went wrong in healthcare. I love the closing message that ‘Workers are the root remedy’ #ciehf #ehf2024 #healthcare #humanfactors #patientsafety

When St George slayed the dragon, his limbic system would have also been on fire

We don't fight dragons every day, but when angry, our primitive limbic system can 'hijack' higher brain functions & raise error risk

STOP & think before saying/doing something we may later regret

🟪NEW Article in press❕

Recurrence and tumor-related death after resection of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with metabolic syndrome

🔓 #OpenAccess at 👉jhep-reports.eu/article/S2589-…

#LiverTwitter
#HepatocellularCarcinoma
#MetabolicSyndrome

Introducing the Novel Robotic Liver Resection Difficulty Scoring system.
“The Tampa score” is to help surgeons in their learning curve to predict operative difficulty.

JOGS Intuitive AHPBA Japanese Society of HBP Surgery Society of Surgical Oncology ILLS AnnalsSurgOncology Annals of Surgery

Every year we perform countless MRI/MRCP for IPMNs 🍇…

☢️ Can we use a short protocol for their surveillance?! 🤷‍♂️

🥊 Interobserver agreement among radiologists says.. finally the time has come!

🆓 link to paper 👉sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Shared the emerging experience with the new Non Contrast #YellowEnhancement   Technology during the 3rd Annual Meeting of International Society for Fluoroscene Guided Surgery , Asia Pacific Chapter under the stewardship of Prof #TakeakiIshizawa .
#ISFGS #Laparoscopy #Olympus

Last week, Prof Steve Wigmore was awarded an honorary fellowship of the American Surgical at their meeting in Washington!🎉🗣️🌟

Read all about it on our LinkedIn page👉linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

The University of Edinburgh The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh BJS Academy Young BJS Clinical Surgery Edinburgh Clin Ed Edinburgh Medical School Edinburgh University Press

🔪 A whipple is not a whipple without Henle’s trunk 🪵 identification…

👉Do you know all its variants ?! 👈

🎯 Check them all out here !!! … and have a great (and safe) next whipple you all!!!

God save the ... spleen! 🫘

Distal Pancreatectomy for body PDAC: is Splenectomy necessary? 🧐

🇫🇷 PSM analysis spleen preserving had ⬇️ harvested LN but ...

🐳 Less POPF and CCI
🪽 Same risk recurrence / survival

link.springer.com/article/10.124…

⚠️No octreotide for intraop carcinoid crisis🫢

👥345 operations OHSU Department of Surgery
Crisis in 3️⃣0️⃣％

💉1st line IV octreotide🆚pressors (phenyl/vaso)

Pressors👉🏻⬇️crisis duration & number
Octreotide👉🏻ineffective & delays management

📝🔗link.springer.com/article/10.124…
#ASOchat #some4surgery

Nivolumab in sorafenib-naive & sorafenib-experienced hepatocellular carcinoma: 5-yr follow-up from CheckMate 040
Annals of Oncology
doi.org/10.1016/j.anno…
👉ORR 20 & 14%
👉mOS 26.6 & 15.1 mo
👉5-yr (!) OS rates 14 & 12%
😅CheckMate 9DW awaited..
ESMO - Eur. Oncology EASLnews ILCA…

Y’all, everybody cool is in the DEI session on cultural competency in patient care right now!

Get on into Americana 2! myfirstnameisDoctress👩🏾‍⚕️ Chris Sonnenday Lesly A Dossett MD MPH Allison Martin, MD MPH Ugwuji Maduekwe Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Majella Doyle

🚨PANDORINA, a binational 🇳🇱🇮🇹RCT of drain 🆚 no drain in distal pancreatectomy out in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology !
✅Major morbidity 20% vs 15%
✅POPF 27% vs 12%
➡️A no-drain policy is safe and reduced POPF and should be the new standard approach
DPCG thelancet.com/journals/langa…

Is it safe to stop placing a drain after distal pancreatectomy?
➡️Today #PANDORINA non-inferiority trial 🇳🇱🇮🇹 The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology
✅ Yes! Not only safe, but improves overall morbidity and POPF B/C rate!

Wonderful collaboration DPCG & Pancreas Verona
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Leadership development Callisia Clarke MD at #AHPBA24 #HPBheroines

Know your strengths
👉there are tools to help
👉it is dynamic - will change over time

➡️Finding your weaknesses is where true leaders are made

One of the best weekly newsletters I subscribe to is the Psychological Safety newsletter from Tom Geraghty. It always has excellent (relevant & useable) content. This week's topic is 'graded assertiveness' (when we need to communicate an important message to someone who is much…

Catherine Teh 陳婉然🇵🇭 ISFGS ILLS Japanese Society of HBP Surgery Great to have seen you! Can't wait for Manila, Catherine Teh 陳婉然🇵🇭!