Nik Machairas
@nmachair
MD, PhD, FACS
HPB Surgery / Liver Transplant / 🧬🦀🔪
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 🇬🇷
@UOAofficial @RoyalFreeNHS @MayoClinic @CHRCitadelle
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🚨PANDORINA, a binational 🇳🇱🇮🇹RCT of drain 🆚 no drain in distal pancreatectomy out in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology !
✅Major morbidity 20% vs 15%
✅POPF 27% vs 12%
➡️A no-drain policy is safe and reduced POPF and should be the new standard approach
DPCG thelancet.com/journals/langa…
📣 Check out our latest review article published in @jogs, focusing on state-of-the-art in simultaneous resection for colorectal cancer with synchronous liver metastases
➡️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Timothy M. Pawlik Marcello Di Martino Florian Primavesi Diamantis I. Tsilimigras, MD, PhD Adam Frampton
Out now! How many patients fail to access adjuvant therapy after surgery for resectable #PancreaticCancer ?25%🥧! Why?(Data from 317 pts)
1) 🩹Postop compl
2) 🧑⚕️Oncologist's choice
3) 💊Comorbidities
Less likely:
- 👵Elderly
- 💧POPF
Pancreas Verona E-AHPBA IHPBA AnnalsSurgOncology
Laparoscopic Liver Tunnel for Tumors at the Hepatocaval Confluence AnnalsSurgOncology link.springer.com/article/10.124…
What is the difference between long-term survival and cure following pancreatectomy for PDAC? Check this out: Cure Probabilities After Resection Of Pancreatic Ductal... : Annals of Surgery journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger… Stefano Crippa Giuseppe Malleo Alessandro Cucchetti AICEP AISP
Today in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, review BRPC-LAPC #PancreaticCancer
📌 Preoperative chemotherapy & radiation
📌 A-B-C (re)staging & surgical decision-making
📌Clinical research agenda
Great team effort 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇳🇱 nature.com/articles/s4157…
Paris ‘98 Prof. Makuuchi & Belghiti started “HCC East-West Experiences”Myself, Prof. Kokudo & Jean-Nicolas Vauthey MD joined. Milan ‘15: became EWALT. Mainz Nov 8-10, Prof Hauke Lang hosts EWALT 2023: join ewalt2023.de !
IHPBA E-AHPBA APHPBA2023 IASGO_1988 SSAT AICEP
While >1000 worldexperts meet European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) congress #esso42 in beautiful Florence to improve care & save cancer patients life, in other parts of the world young, healthy humans and elderly people are getting killed daily. Why are we wasting the precious gift of life? #stopallwars
A comprehensive paper by Mimmo Tamburrino on the surgical approach for BL and LA #PancreaticCancer . JOGS Ospedale San Raffaele Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Stefano Crippa IHPBA EPC-Europ Pancr Club European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO)
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
The HPB Cases📂
Online session 1 - The modern management of a patient with colorectal-liver metastases
📆Thur 12th October
⏰ 1800 GMT / 1900 CEST
Free registration - eahpba.org/education-and-…
IHPBA European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) Somaiah Aroori Marcello Di Martino Anita Balakrishnan
Out now the 3-year results of the Italian Registry of PDAC Surveillance: a multicenter (18🏥) effort: 8 PDAC, 1 PanIN3, and 1-, 2- and 3-year cum haz of 1.7%, 2.5% and 3%📈. Thanks all🙏AISP Gabriele Capurso MD, PhD🇺🇦 EPC-Europ Pancr Club Pancreas Verona The PRECEDE Consortium Study E-AHPBA Fondazione Nadia Valsecchi Onlus
Low-yield surgery during pancreatic cancer surveillance: prevention or overtreatment? Definitely a thin border! A prevalence metanalysis. Check this out! Pancreas Verona Gabriele Capurso MD, PhD🇺🇦 Diane M. Simeone, MD Kasper.Overbeek James Farrell Giuseppe Malleo The PRECEDE Consortium Study IHPBA E-AHPBA my_UEG
🌍 3696 pt.
EC presented ⬆️ risk of mort.
⚠ Older/fragile pt. with AP-related compl. should likely not be considered for EC
🙏 Mauro Podda, leader of the #MANCTRA -1 project |🙏ACIE Associazione Chirurghi Italiani in Europa for the opportunity to work on such a significant research
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