Renxi Li , Jayati Atahar , Ahmed Noureldin , Susan Kartiko
{"title":"Favorable 30-day outcomes of initial open inguinal hernia repair with local anesthesia among frail patients","authors":"Renxi Li , Jayati Atahar , Ahmed Noureldin , Susan Kartiko","doi":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2024.12.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2024.12.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Open inguinal hernia repair (OIHR) can be conducted under either general anesthesia (GA) or local anesthesia (LA). Despite a lack of evidence supporting improved perioperative outcomes, GA is the predominant anesthesia type used in OIHR. Frailty is defined as a clinically recognizable state of age-related increased vulnerability. This study aimed to compare the 30-day perioperative outcomes of frail patients undergoing OIHR with either GA or LA.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Patients who underwent initial OIHR were identified in the ACS-NSQIP database from 2005–2021. Patients with a Modified Frailty Index (mFI)<!--> <!-->≥<!--> <!-->2 were included. Patients were divided based on GA or LA administered. Multivariable logistic regression was used to compare 30-day perioperative outcomes between frail patients undergoing OIHR under GA or LA.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Among 20,129 frail patients who underwent initial OIHR, 13,473 had GA, and 3686 had LA. The 30-day mortality rates for LA and GA were low. However, frail patients who underwent LA had a lower risk of bleeding (aOR 0.282, <em>P</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->0.04), superficial surgical site infection (aOR 0.450, <em>P</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->0.03), and discharge not to home (aOR 0.792, <em>P</em> <!--><<!--> <!-->0.01). In addition, frail patients who underwent LA had shorter operation time (58.42<!--> <!-->±<!--> <!-->25.26 vs 67.60<!--> <!-->±<!--> <!-->37.17 mins, <em>P</em> <!--><<!--> <!-->0.01) and a shorter length of stay (0.45<!--> <!-->±<!--> <!-->2.30 vs 0.57<!--> <!-->±<!--> <!-->2.96 days, <em>P</em> <!--><<!--> <!-->0.01).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Although GA is the dominant anesthesia use (4:1) in OIHR among frail patients, LA emerges as a safe alternative to GA for these patients, offering potential benefits such as reduced complications and increased day-case surgery volume, which may be associated with decreased healthcare costs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visceral Surgery","volume":"162 3","pages":"Pages 178-184"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Dugas , C. Lim , A. Leseigneur , M. Demouron , F. Mauvais , C. Sabbagh , J.-M. Regimbeau
{"title":"Natural history of right hemicolectomy for cancer in high-risk anesthetic patients: Immediate anastomosis is a valid option","authors":"R. Dugas , C. Lim , A. Leseigneur , M. Demouron , F. Mauvais , C. Sabbagh , J.-M. Regimbeau","doi":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2025.01.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2025.01.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Surgeons and patients need to know the expected outcomes of right hemicolectomy for colon cancer in high-risk anesthetic patients.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>This is a two-center study of high-risk anesthetic patients undergoing right hemicolectomy between 2009 and 2023. High-risk anesthetic patients were defined as those with ASA score<!--> <!-->≥<!--> <!-->3. The primary endpoint was to assess the safety of right hemicolectomy evaluated as 90-day mortality and morbidity. Secondary endpoints included the occurrence of anastomotic leak, a textbook outcome and long-term survival. Factors associated with textbook outcome and definitive stoma were also investigated.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A total of 220 patients were included (mean age: 76<!--> <!-->±<!--> <!-->9 years). Of these, 8.6% of patients had a definitive stoma. Mortality and severe morbidity at 90 days were 7.3% and 14.6%, respectively. Readmission rate within 90 days was 15.9%. The rate of textbook outcome was 68.2%. In multivariable analysis, hemicolectomy without anastomosis was associated with a lower textbook outcome rate (OR<!--> <!-->=<!--> <!-->0.4, 95% CI<!--> <!-->=<!--> <!-->0.2–1.0; <em>P</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->0.04) and a higher definitive stoma rate (OR<!--> <!-->=<!--> <!-->103, 95% CI<!--> <!-->=<!--> <!-->9–1131; <em>P</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->0.0001) after right hemicolectomy.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Right hemicolectomy with immediate anastomosis in high-risk anesthetic patients with colon cancer is safe and effective with acceptable mortality and morbidity. Performing right hemicolectomy without anastomosis was a factor for failing to achieve textbook outcome and a risk factor for definitive stoma.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visceral Surgery","volume":"162 3","pages":"Pages 185-190"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Baron , Charles De Ponthaud , Sébastien Gaujoux
{"title":"Intraoperative pancreatoscopy during left pancreatectomy for intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasia (with video)","authors":"Thomas Baron , Charles De Ponthaud , Sébastien Gaujoux","doi":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2025.01.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2025.01.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visceral Surgery","volume":"162 3","pages":"Pages 229-231"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143076105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandra Pellegrin , Hugo Defives , Charles Sabbagh
{"title":"Long stenosis in Crohn's disease: Stricturoplasty according to Finney","authors":"Alexandra Pellegrin , Hugo Defives , Charles Sabbagh","doi":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2025.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2025.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visceral Surgery","volume":"162 3","pages":"Pages 209-212"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring performance in visceral surgery: Interests, tools, and perspectives","authors":"Frédéric de la Codre","doi":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2025.01.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2025.01.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visceral Surgery","volume":"162 3","pages":"Pages 176-177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical error: From a legal framework to an approach based on surgical risk management","authors":"Margaux Borie , Jean-François Gravié , Frédéric Borie","doi":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2025.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2025.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The legal concept of medical error is focused on the liability of professionals and healthcare establishments in the event of patient harm. Encompassing medical hazard and loss of chance, this approach is aimed at determining indemnification for harm following a medical accident occurring in a patient. Risk management associated with an adverse event strives to prevent errors and to minimize their deleterious consequences. Search for medical accident avoidability is the main concept characterizing this approach. Analysis by feedback from operational experience allows professionals to anonymously and non-punitively learn from their mistakes, the key objective being to improve their practices. The objective of the present study was to consider medical or surgical error first in a legal framework and then from a risk management standpoint, thereby enabling the surgeon to better understand the specificities of these approaches with their different purposes and to expressly integrate them in his practice, in such a way as to promote patient and professional safety.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visceral Surgery","volume":"162 3","pages":"Pages 191-198"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pedicular clamping by the laparoscopic approach","authors":"Alain Valverde","doi":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2025.03.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2025.03.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49271,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visceral Surgery","volume":"162 3","pages":"Pages 213-217"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144133109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}