Eleonora A Huurman, Christel A L de Raaff, Pim C E J Sloots, Oren Lapid, Hessel H van der Zee, Wilfred Bötger, Sandra Janssen, Francine Das, Andrea L J Kortlever-van der Spek, Anja van der Hout, Bas P L Wijnhoven, Boudewijn R Toorenvliet, Robert M Smeenk
{"title":"Dutch national guideline on the management of intergluteal pilonidal sinus disease.","authors":"Eleonora A Huurman, Christel A L de Raaff, Pim C E J Sloots, Oren Lapid, Hessel H van der Zee, Wilfred Bötger, Sandra Janssen, Francine Das, Andrea L J Kortlever-van der Spek, Anja van der Hout, Bas P L Wijnhoven, Boudewijn R Toorenvliet, Robert M Smeenk","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znae281","DOIUrl":"10.1093/bjs/znae281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":"111 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142754375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neoadjuvant treatment of rectal cancer: from adjunct to surgery to primary organ sparing treatment.","authors":"Jacobus W A Burger, Brechtje A Grotenhuis","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znae300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znae300","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":"111 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142851727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Better together: antiobesity medications and bariatric surgery for the management of obesity.","authors":"Dimitri J Pournaras, Ildiko Lingvay, Priya Sumithran","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znae294","DOIUrl":"10.1093/bjs/znae294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":"111 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11606185/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142754374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ben E Byrne, Kwabena Siaw-Acheampong, Orla Evans, Joanna Taylor, Fiona Huddy, Magnus Nilsson, Ewen A Griffiths, Donald Low, James Gossage, Jason Dunn, Sebastian Zeki, Sheraz Markar, Kerry Avery, Jane M Blazeby, Andrew Cockbain, Charlotte Moss, Mieke van Hemelrijck, Jervoise Andreyev, Andrew R Davies
{"title":"REsolution of Symptoms afTer Oesophago-gastric cancer REsection delphi (RESTOREd)-standardizing the definition, investigation and management of gastrointestinal symptoms and conditions after surgery.","authors":"Ben E Byrne, Kwabena Siaw-Acheampong, Orla Evans, Joanna Taylor, Fiona Huddy, Magnus Nilsson, Ewen A Griffiths, Donald Low, James Gossage, Jason Dunn, Sebastian Zeki, Sheraz Markar, Kerry Avery, Jane M Blazeby, Andrew Cockbain, Charlotte Moss, Mieke van Hemelrijck, Jervoise Andreyev, Andrew R Davies","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znae286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znae286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Oesophago-gastric cancer surgery negatively affects quality of life with a high postoperative symptom burden. Several conditions that may be diagnosed and treated after surgery are recognised. However, consensus regarding their definition and management is lacking. This study aimed to develop consensus regarding the definition, investigation and management of the common symptoms and conditions, and triggers to consider disease recurrence, as a foundation for improving management and quality of life in these patients.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Modified two-round Delphi consensus study of a multidisciplinary expert panel.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eighty-six of 127 (67.7%) and 77 of 93 (82.8%) responses were received in rounds 1 and 2. Consensus was achieved in defining 26 symptoms. For 10 conditions (anastomotic stricture, acid reflux, non-acid reflux, biliary gastritis, delayed gastric emptying, dumping syndrome, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, bile acid diarrhoea, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and carbohydrate malabsorption), definitions, diagnostic criteria, first- and second-line investigation and first-line treatments were agreed. Consensus was not reached for third-line investigation of some conditions, or for second-, third- or fourth-line treatments for others. Twelve of 14 (85.7%) symptoms were agreed as triggers to consider cancer recurrence, during the early (<1 year) and late (>1 year) postoperative periods.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Expert consensus regarding symptoms, conditions and triggers to consider investigation for recurrence after oesophago-gastric cancer surgery was achieved. This may allow standardization and timely diagnosis and treatment of postoperative conditions, reducing variation in care and optimizing patients' quality of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":"111 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142805612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tiago Ribeiro, Armaan K Malhotra, Adom Bondzi-Simpson, Antoine Eskander, Negar Ahmadi, Frances C Wright, Daniel I McIsaac, Alyson Mahar, Angela Jerath, Natalie Coburn, Julie Hallet
{"title":"Days at home after surgery as a perioperative outcome: scoping review and recommendations for use in health services research.","authors":"Tiago Ribeiro, Armaan K Malhotra, Adom Bondzi-Simpson, Antoine Eskander, Negar Ahmadi, Frances C Wright, Daniel I McIsaac, Alyson Mahar, Angela Jerath, Natalie Coburn, Julie Hallet","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znae278","DOIUrl":"10.1093/bjs/znae278","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Days at home after surgery is a promising new patient-centred outcome metric that measures time spent outside of healthcare institutions and mortality. The aim of this scoping review was to synthesize the use of days at home in perioperative research and evaluate how it has been termed, defined, and validated, with a view to inform future use.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The search was run on MEDLINE, Embase, and Scopus on 30 March 2023 to capture all perioperative research where days at home or equivalent was measured. Days at home was defined as any outcome where time spent outside of hospitals and/or healthcare institutions was calculated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 78 articles were included. Days at home has been increasingly used, with most studies published in 2022 (35, 45%). Days at home has been applied in multiple study design types, with varying terminology applied. There is variability in how days at home has been defined, with variation in measures of healthcare utilization incorporated across studies. Poor reporting was noted, with 14 studies (18%) not defining how days at home was operationalized and 18 studies (23%) not reporting how death was handled. Construct and criterion validity were demonstrated across seven validation studies in different surgical populations.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Days at home after surgery is a robust, flexible, and validated outcome measure that is being increasingly used as a patient-centred metric after surgery. With growing use, there is also growing variability in terms used, definitions applied, and reporting standards. This review summarizes these findings to work towards coordinating and standardizing the use of days at home after surgery as a patient-centred policy and research tool.</p>","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":"111 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11630023/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142826802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diane Lorenzo, Lina Aguilera Munoz, Anne-Laure Vedie, Frédéric Prat, Safi Dokmak, Alain Sauvanet, Frédérique Maire, Louis de Mestier, Pauline Copin, Marco Dioguardi Burgio, Anne Couvelard, Cécile Haumaitre, Jérôme Cros, Vinciane Rebours
{"title":"Mural nodules and prevalence of high-grade dysplasia in branch duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas undergoing resection.","authors":"Diane Lorenzo, Lina Aguilera Munoz, Anne-Laure Vedie, Frédéric Prat, Safi Dokmak, Alain Sauvanet, Frédérique Maire, Louis de Mestier, Pauline Copin, Marco Dioguardi Burgio, Anne Couvelard, Cécile Haumaitre, Jérôme Cros, Vinciane Rebours","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znae292","DOIUrl":"10.1093/bjs/znae292","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A mural module (MN) within a branch-duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (BD-IPMN) could be a potential target for local treatment. The main aim was to describe the location of the highest grade of dysplasia relative to the mural module to assess the relevance of local treatment.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Observational study of patients who underwent a pancreatic resection for suspected high-risk IPMN because of a mural module within a BD-IPMN (2012-2022). All patients had preoperative imaging confirming the enhancing mural module. The mural module was considered as a theoretical appropriate target for local destruction if no cancer or high-grade dysplasia (HGD) was described elsewhere than in the mural module.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eighty-two patients (male: 44 (54%); mean age: 65 ± 9.2 years) were included. The mean size of BD-IPMN containing the mural module was 32 ± 14.8 mm. The mural module mean diameter was 10.5 ± 5.6 mm, and the main pancreatic duct (MPD) mean diameter was 5.2 ± 3.6 mm. Six patients presented invasive carcinoma (7%), 37 had HGD (45%), and 39 (48%) had exclusively low-grade dysplasia. The mural module was dysplastic in 70 cases (85%). The mural module was considered a relevant target for local ablation in 45 patients (55%), whereas 37 patients (45%) had HGD/invasive carcinoma distant from the mural module. HGD was exclusively present in the mural module in 6/82 patients (7%). Factors independently associated with 'relevant indication for local treatment' were female gender (P = 0.004; OR = 5.2, 95% c.i. 1.7 to 15.9) and MPD < 5 mm (P < 0.0001; OR = 8.6, 95% c.i. 2.7 to 26.8).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In resected pancreata, BD-IPMN mural modules are associated with HGD distant from the mural module almost half of cases. The findings question the safety of local treatment, supporting pancreatectomy as the best approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":"111 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142754377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giovanni Catalano, Laura Alaimo, Odysseas P Chatzipanagiotou, Andrea Ruzzenente, Federico Aucejo, Hugo P Marques, Vincent Lam, Tom Hugh, Nazim Bhimani, Shishir K Maithel, Minoru Kitago, Itaru Endo, Timothy M Pawlik
{"title":"Machine learning prediction of early recurrence after surgery for gallbladder cancer.","authors":"Giovanni Catalano, Laura Alaimo, Odysseas P Chatzipanagiotou, Andrea Ruzzenente, Federico Aucejo, Hugo P Marques, Vincent Lam, Tom Hugh, Nazim Bhimani, Shishir K Maithel, Minoru Kitago, Itaru Endo, Timothy M Pawlik","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znae297","DOIUrl":"10.1093/bjs/znae297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Gallbladder cancer is often associated with poor prognosis, especially when patients experience early recurrence after surgery. Machine learning may improve prediction accuracy by analysing complex non-linear relationships. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a machine learning model to predict early recurrence risk after resection of gallbladder cancer.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this cross-sectional study, patients who underwent resection of gallbladder cancer with curative intent between 2001 and 2022 were identified using an international database. Patients were assigned randomly to a development and an evaluation cohort. Four machine learning models were trained to predict early recurrence (within 12 months) and compared using the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 374 patients, 56 (15.0%) experienced early recurrence; most patients had T1 (51, 13.6%) or T2 (180, 48.1%) disease, and a subset had lymph node metastasis (120, 32.1%). In multivariable Cox analysis, resection margins (HR 2.34, 95% c.i. 1.55 to 3.80; P < 0.001), and greater AJCC T (HR 2.14, 1.41 to 3.25; P < 0.001) and N (HR 1.59, 1.05 to 2.42; P = 0.029) categories were independent predictors of early recurrence. The random forest model demonstrated the highest discrimination in the evaluation cohort (AUC 76.4, 95% c.i. 66.3 to 86.5), compared with XGBoost (AUC 74.4, 53.4 to 85.3), support vector machine (AUC 67.2, 54.4 to 80.0), and logistic regression (AUC 73.1, 60.6 to 85.7), as well as good accuracy after bootstrapping validation (AUC 75.3, 75.0 to 75.6). Patients classified as being at high versus low risk of early recurrence had much worse overall survival (36.1 versus 63.8% respectively; P < 0.001). An easy-to-use calculator was made available (https://catalano-giovanni.shinyapps.io/GallbladderER).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Machine learning-based prediction of early recurrence after resection of gallbladder cancer may help stratify patients, as well as help inform postoperative adjuvant therapy and surveillance strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":"111 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142680260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fabio Giannone, Fabio Del Zompo, Antonio Saviano, Erwan Pencreach, Catherine Schuster, Thomas F Baumert, Patrick Pessaux
{"title":"Impact of genetic alterations on long-term outcomes in resectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: meta-analysis.","authors":"Fabio Giannone, Fabio Del Zompo, Antonio Saviano, Erwan Pencreach, Catherine Schuster, Thomas F Baumert, Patrick Pessaux","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znae257","DOIUrl":"10.1093/bjs/znae257","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma is a public health threat because of its aggressiveness. Its genetic background differs from other biliary cancers. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of genetic alterations on long-term outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus, and Cochrane Library databases were systematically searched for studies assessing long-term outcomes after resection of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma according to genetic mutational profiling until 31 May 2022. The main outcome was the impact of genetic alterations on long-term outcomes in these patients. HR (95% c.i.) was used for effect size. Publication bias was investigated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 24 retrospective studies were included. KRAS, IDH1/2, and TP53 were identified as the only three genes whose mutation correlated with survival (HR: 2.476, 95% c.i. 1.67-3.671, P < 0.01 for KRAS; HR: 0.624, 95% c.i. 0.450-0.867, P < 0.01 for IDH1/2; and HR: 2.771, 95% c.i. 2.034-3.775, P < 0.01 for TP53). The prevalence of KRAS and IDH1/2 mutations differed between western and eastern studies (P < 0.001 for both genes).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Determining the overall prevalence of the most common actionable and undruggable mutations may help to expand target therapy indications in the adjuvant setting. Inconsistent results have been found for some infrequent gene alterations; their rare involvement could potentially bias their prognostic meaning.</p>","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":"111 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142692259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}