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Comparison of sutureless anastomosis with hybrid vascular graft to standard graft for the hypogastric preservation during open aortic surgery
No full textBACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of surgical bypass to the hypogastric artery (HA) during open surgical interventions for aortoiliac disease using the novel hybrid vascular graft (GHVG) in comparison with a standard graft. METHODS: This is a retrospective, observational cohort study from tertiary referral university hospitals. Specifically for this study, post-hoc analysis identified all patients treated with open surgical aortoiliac/femoral graft reconstruction who underwent direct HA bypass, between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2020. For this study, primary outcomes of interest were early (≤30 day) mortality, freedom from pelvic ischemic complications, and primary patency of the HAbypass. RESULTS: The final comparative analysis included 22 patients. Standard prosthetic graft (group A) was used in 15 cases, and GHVG (group B) was used in 7. Intraoperative mortality was 0%. There was no difference in mean operative time (minutes: 310±43 vs. 332±92, P=0.641), mean blood loss (mL, 1570±915 vs. 1060±555, P=0.318), postoperative complications (OR=0.2; P=0.247), and mean hospitalization (days: 11±5 vs. 8±3, P=0.231). All patients are alive at a median follow-up of 28 months (range: 9-57). Estimated primary patency did not differ between the two groups (Log-rank, P=0.314). CONCLUSIONS: In our experience, direct HArevascularization is safe using either the sutureless technique or standard graft. Despite early technical failures, which call attention to meticulous surgical technique, GHVGshowed long-term results like a standard graft
Results of open conversion with full endograft explantation after failed EVAR
No full textBACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to analyze open conversion (OC) after failed endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) and to identify predictors of postoperative mortality. METHODS: It is a single-center, retrospective, observational cohort study of the patients treated between January 1, 1997, and April 30, 2021. Post-hoc analysis recruited only patients who underwent OC with full endograft (EG) explantation because of failed EVAR. Specifically for this study, primary endpoint of interest was early (<30 days) mortality. RESULTS: Twenty-seven patients 27 out of 1051 (2.6%) underwent OC were identified. There were 24 (88.9%) males and 3 females: median age at the time of OCwas 72 years (IQR: 67-79). Open conversion was performed after a median interval of 11 months (IQR: 0-62) from initial EVAR. Eleven (40.7%) patients were operated on urgently (rupture, N.=8). Overall, 30-day mortality rate was 25.9% (N.=7). Binary logistic regression analysis confirmed that rupture at admission was predictive of 30-day mortality (OR=14, 95% CI: 1.8-109.9, P=0.011). The mean follow-up of survivors was 38 months (range: 1-151): overall estimated survival rate was 79±0.8% at 12 months (95% CI: 59.3-89.4), 70±0.9% at 36 months (95% CI: 51.5-84.2), and 63±1% at 60 months (95% CI: 41.3-80). CONCLUSIONS: In our experience, a non-negligible rate of patients requiring OCafter failed EVARpresented with rupture which was the only predictor of early mortality
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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