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Top Surgery (Other) Research Papers
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7.6
Sirolimus-Coated Balloon Angioplasty for Infrainguinal Artery Disease.
Overall: This well-conducted randomized trial found a clinically meaningful reduction in repeat limb procedures or major amputation without an evident one-year safety penalty, supporting potential adoption during infrainguinal angioplasty.
2.
7.4
Short or Long Antibiotic Regimens in Orthopedics.
Overall: A strong randomized trial shows that markedly shorter systemic antibiotic therapy after local antibiotic implantation preserves clinical outcomes while substantially reducing treatment-related symptoms and burden.
3.
7.3
Integrating Nonpharmacological Options Into Perioperative Pain Care: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.
Overall: A large, pragmatic US cluster-randomized trial found a modest reduction in postoperative opioid exposure without compromising patient-reported recovery, supporting scalable implementation while offering limited evidence of broader clinical benefit.
4.
7.2
Patient-Level Evaluation of Optimal Margin Width for Lumpectomy in Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: An Analysis of Patients in the National Cancer Database Special Study.
Overall: This large US observational cohort addresses a clinically important recurrence outcome and an easily actionable surgical decision, but residual confounding and the lack of absolute effect estimates limit its stand-alone practice-changing strength.
5.
7.2
Cold and Room-Temperature Platelets in Cardiac Surgery: The CHIPS Randomized Clinical Trial.
Overall: A large, well-conducted randomized trial supports substantially longer cold storage without reduced hemostatic efficacy, although no patient-level superiority was shown and increased reexploration requires attention.
6.
7.2
Surgery and tile-based radiation therapy versus surgery and stereotactic radiation for newly diagnosed brain metastases (ROADS): a randomized, open-label, phase 3 trial.
Overall: This multicenter randomized US trial found markedly better local disease control with intraoperative cesium-131 tiles and similar overall adverse-event rates, but short follow-up, modified intention-to-treat exclusions, absent absolute effects, and no survival or quality-of-life results temper immediate adoption.
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7.2
Chemoradiotherapy versus short-course radiotherapy for response-adapted organ preservation in early-stage and intermediate-stage rectal cancer (STAR-TREC): 12-month results of an international, multicentre, open-label, parallel-group, randomised, phase 2/3 trial.
Overall: This randomized multicentre trial shows a substantial early organ-preservation advantage for LCCRT, but definitive functional and oncological outcomes require longer follow-up.
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7.2
Cost-Effectiveness of Endovascular vs Open Surgery for Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia.
Overall: This rigorous trial-based US economic evaluation favors bypass surgery on cost and effectiveness, but its modest projected health advantage and remaining subgroup uncertainty temper its immediate impact.
9.
7.2
Safety of routine antimicrobial prophylaxis for surgery (SAPPHIRE): a prospective multi-centre cohort study.
Overall: This large prospective cohort links additional perioperative antimicrobial doses to more adverse effects without fewer infections, but residual confounding prevents firm causal conclusions.
10.
7.0
Bioengineered acellular tissue engineered vessels versus autogenous fistulae for haemodialysis access: a multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial.
Overall: This well-conducted US randomised trial found clinically meaningful improvements in dialysis-access function with ATEV, but more interventions, limited follow-up, and unresolved implementation issues reduce its overall impact.
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