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		<title>Anemia and blood transfusions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Mitsiev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acute anemia is a common reason for transfusion of blood products. The hemoglobin (Hb) threshold for correcting anemia has been a hot topic of discussions for a long time. Here I would like to share my experience and thoughts about this very surgical issue.
About 15 years ago I listened to a talk that was given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intravenous Metronidazole for Clostridium difficile colitis</title>
		<link>http://forsurgeons.net/uncategorized/intravenous-metronidazole-for-clostridium-difficile-colitis</link>
		<comments>http://forsurgeons.net/uncategorized/intravenous-metronidazole-for-clostridium-difficile-colitis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Mitsiev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit, like many colleagues, I believed for many years that giving Flagyl (Metronidazole) for C. diff. colitis should happen only PO. Now I was corrected.
Recently one of the transplant surgeons in the hospital I work in suggested IV Flagyl for a patient with this diagnosis and I objected. She told me that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The process of organ procurement: Liver &#8211; the cold dissection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Mitsiev</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[transplant surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liver]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cold dissection is the part with the most surgical variants and I want to stress again the fact that the described way is the one that I use, well knowing that this is only one of many possible ways to perform an organ procurement in general and a cold dissection in particular.]]></description>
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		<title>The process of organ procurement: Liver &#8211; the warm dissection</title>
		<link>http://forsurgeons.net/transplant-surgery/the-process-of-organ-procurement-liver-the-warm-dissection</link>
		<comments>http://forsurgeons.net/transplant-surgery/the-process-of-organ-procurement-liver-the-warm-dissection#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Mitsiev</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[transplant surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liver]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The warm dissection is almost a standardized procedure and is probably the most challenging part of the organ procurement procedure. It includes dissection of the structures in the hepato-duodenal ligament, dissection of the infrarenal and supraceliac aorta as well as the cannulation of the portal system over the IMV.]]></description>
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		<title>The process of organ procurement: prior to the surgery.</title>
		<link>http://forsurgeons.net/transplant-surgery/the-process-of-organ-procurement-prior-to-the-surgery</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Mitsiev</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[transplant surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organ procurement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prior to the organ procurement a review of the situation is done: assessment of the donor, the declaration of death, the consent for organ donation, and the lab results.]]></description>
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		<title>Metastasis dependancy on the primary tumor?</title>
		<link>http://forsurgeons.net/general-surgery/metastasis-dependancy-on-the-primary-tumor</link>
		<comments>http://forsurgeons.net/general-surgery/metastasis-dependancy-on-the-primary-tumor#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Mitsiev</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had an interesting case with a weird behavior of a suspected metastasis after resection of the primary tumor.
Description
A 43 years old male came in July 2008 to the Medical Service with nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. The workup showed a tumor in the 3rd portion of the duodenum as well as a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael DeBakey is dead!</title>
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		<comments>http://forsurgeons.net/news/michael-debackey-is-dead#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Mitsiev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael DeBakey died at the age of 99.
This surgeon published his first invention in 1933 and had an office at the Baylor College in Houston until his death yesterday (In Memoriam, Baylor College of Medicine).
My former chief retired about a year ago and at the same day I left also the Medical Center where he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOTES? NOTes!</title>
		<link>http://forsurgeons.net/recently-read/notes-notes</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Mitsiev</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[endoscopy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago I wrote about a transgastric approach in some gastroenterological experiments. What happened in this year? Well, there is a development! Let us take a look at a paper published last year in Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology &#38; Hepatology &#8211; a magazine belonging to the Nature publishing group. This publication is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second look: on-demand vs planned in patients with peritonitis.</title>
		<link>http://forsurgeons.net/recently-read/second-look-on-demand-vs-planned-in-patients-with-peritonitis</link>
		<comments>http://forsurgeons.net/recently-read/second-look-on-demand-vs-planned-in-patients-with-peritonitis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Mitsiev</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[general surgery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every abdominal surgeon has patients with peritonitis. In severe cases, a &#8220;second look&#8221; should be planned. At least this is the common opinion.
A  group from Holland published a randomized trial about this topic. Surprisingly the results did not show higher morbidity in the &#8220;on-demand&#8221; group.
This is a surprise, due to the unavoidable human factor estimating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Followup for patients with papillary thyroid cancer.</title>
		<link>http://forsurgeons.net/recently-read/followup-for-patients-with-papillary-thyroid-cancer</link>
		<comments>http://forsurgeons.net/recently-read/followup-for-patients-with-papillary-thyroid-cancer#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Mitsiev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the end of the 70-ies, as the radioiodine therapy was initiated, the prognosis of the well-differentiated thyroid carcinomas improved like no other. Despite the success of the therapy, about 30% of the papillary thyroid carconimas show a recidive. Therefore the question about the followup of these carcinomas is quite interesting.
This is the topic of [...]]]></description>
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