Background Bile duct injury (BDI) is the most common serious complication of laparoscopic
cholecystectomy. To address this problem, a multi-society consensus conference was held to …

Background Islet transplantation offers an effective treatment for selected people with type 1
diabetes and intractable hypoglycaemia. Long-term experience, however, remains limited. …

Within the last decade, several authors have proposed laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG)
as a potential definitive treatment for morbid obesity. While initially perceived as being a …

The prevalence of morbidly obese individuals is rising rapidly. Being overweight
predisposes patients to multiple serious medical comorbidities including type two diabetes (T2DM), …

The primary goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of bullying in children with
epilepsy compared with their healthy peers and peers with chronic disease. Children with …

Purpose To identify peri-operative risk factors and time to onset of pancreatic endocrine/exocrine
insufficiency. Methods We retrospectively analyzed a single institutional series of …

Cholangiocarcinoma is a rare tumor of the bile duct epithelium, accounting for only 3% of
gastrointestinal malignancies. 1 It can be divided into intrahepatic, hilar (at the confluence of …

Background. Preliminary studies show promise for extrahepatic islet transplantation (ITx).
However, clinical comparisons with intraportal ITx outcomes remain limited. Methods. This …

Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) has emerged as a valuable tool in the preservation
of liver allografts before transplantation. Randomized trials have shown that replacing static …

Objective: To provide the largest single-center analysis of islet (ITx) and pancreas (PTx)
transplantation. Summary Background Data: Studies describing long-term outcomes with ITx …