A5058863749- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
- Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
- Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
- Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
- Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
- Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis
- Sympathectomy and Hyperhidrosis Treatments
- Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Biliary and Gastrointestinal Fistulas
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology
- Ion Transport and Channel Regulation
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Intestinal and Peritoneal Adhesions
- Bone and Joint Diseases
- Esophageal and GI Pathology
- Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
RWTH Aachen University
2021-2024
Universitätsklinikum Aachen
2023-2024
University Hospital of Heraklion
2022
The optimal malnutrition screening tool in geriatric surgery has yet to be determined. Herein, we compare two main tools older patients undergoing general operations. Older (>65 years old) who underwent operations between 2012 and 2017 a tertiary centre were included. Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) the Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form (MNA-SF) used for nutritional risk assessment. Preoperative variables as well postoperative outcomes recorded prospectively. Agreement was...
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging technology based on low-coherence interferometry, which provides non-invasive, high-resolution cross-sectional images of biological tissues. A potential clinical application the intraoperative examination resection margins, as a real-time adjunct to histological examination. In this ex vivo study, we investigated ability OCT differentiate colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) from healthy parenchyma, when combined with convolutional neural...
This study aimed to observe the impact of COVID-19 outbreak on acute general surgery in first German "hotspot" regions Heinsberg and Aachen, during months pandemic. The incidence severity appendicitis, cholecystitis mechanical bowel obstruction, were compared between March May 2020 a control period (same previous three years). Pre-, intra- postoperative data was regional hospitals closest maximum care, university hospital. A total 592 operated patients included, 141 belonging pandemic cohort...
Postoperative hypocalcemia is one of the most common complications after total thyroidectomy. Parathormone (PTH) and calcium levels, measured several hours surgery, have been suggested as valuable markers for detecting patients at risk post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia. We aimed to determine if early post-surgery PTH levels can be used identification symptomatic were before surgery 10 min 4 h post-thyroidectomy, in 77 patients. Performance characteristics their post/pre-surgery ratios...
Abstract Purpose Surgical resection with complete tumor excision (R0) provides the best chance of long-term survival for patients intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA). A non-invasive imaging technology, which could provide quick intraoperative assessment margins, as an adjunct to histological examination, is optical coherence tomography (OCT). In this study, we investigated ability OCT combined convolutional neural networks (CNN), differentiate iCCA from normal liver parenchyma ex vivo....
Introduction Clinical risk scores (CRS) have been developed to predict overall survival (OS), after liver resection for colorectal metastases (CRLM). In this study, we compare 11 previously described CRS on a monocentric cohort.