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    Reduced preoperative serum choline esterase levels and fecal peritoneal contamination as potential predictors for the leakage of intestinal sutures after source control in secondary peritonitis

    The high rate of stoma placement during emergency laparotomy for secondary peritonitis is a paradigm in need of change in the current fast-track surgical setting. Despite growing evidence for the feasibility o...

    A. L. Amati, R. Ebert, L. Maier, A. K. Panah in World Journal of Emergency Surgery (2024)

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    Sarcopenia of kidney transplant recipients as a predictive marker for reduced graft function and graft survival after kidney transplantation

    The association between sarcopenia of kidney transplant recipients and outcome after kidney transplantation (KT) has not yet been fully understood and is still considered controversial. The aim of our study wa...

    H. Karakizlis, N. Trudel, A. Brose, A. Reinisch in Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery (2023)

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    When to operate after SARS-CoV-2 infection? A review on the recent consensus recommendation of the DGC/BDC and the DGAI/BDA

    Since the eruption of the worldwide SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in late 2019/early 2020, multiple elective surgical interventions were postponed. Through pandemic measures, elective operation capacities were reduced i...

    J. Noll, M. Reichert, M. Dietrich, J. G. Riedel in Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery (2022)

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    Intra-abdominal sepsis: new definitions and current clinical standards

    The abdomen is the second most common source of sepsis and is associated with unacceptably high morbidity and mortality. Recently, the essential definitions of sepsis and septic shock were updated (Third Inter...

    A. Hecker, M. Reichert, C. J. Reuß, T. Schmoch in Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery (2019)

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    The impact of early surgical intervention in free intestinal perforation: a time-to-intervention pilot study

    An abdominal inflammatory focus is the second most often source of sepsis with a high risk of death in surgical intensive care units. By establishing evidence-based bundled strategies the surviving sepsis camp...

    Andreas Hecker, E. Schneck, R. Röhrig, F. Roller in World Journal of Emergency Surgery (2015)