University of California Davis Medical Center

Attitude and Medical Knowledge Among Medical Trainees and Physicians on the Transgender Population: A Multi-Institutional Survey

Objectives Despite a growing population of people who identify as transgender in the United States, existing healthcare and medical education systems have not all adapted to meet the needs of transgender people. Transgender individuals face persistent disparities in accessing hea...

Evaluation of the brachial plexus and spinal cord with diffusion tensor imaging and synthetic MRI in obstetric brachial plexus palsy: DTI of brachial plexus and spinal cord in OBPP

Obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP) is conventionally staged as a peripheral nerve injury, yet conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) poorly reflects microstructural neural and spinal cord changes.We evaluate whether magnetic resonance image compilation (MAGIC), a form...

Impact of Extent of Surgical Resection on Survival in Patients With High-risk Neuroblastoma

Objective: The impact of extent of resection of the primary tumor on outcomes in patients with high-risk neuroblastoma (HRNB) remains uncertain. We evaluated this issue in patients with HRNB treated on a prospective trial of multimodality therapy. Summary of Background Data: Pati...

Outcomes of a Simplified Two‐Catheter Approach for Catheter Ablation of SVT in Pediatric Patients

BACKGROUND: Catheter ablations are an established treatment for supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) in pediatric patients with high success and low complication rates typically. This study evaluated the procedural outcomes, safety, and recurrence rates of pediatric patients underg...

Extreme Risk Protection Order Policies and Suicide Risk Among Handgun Owners

Importance Extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) are state laws intended to prevent gun violence by preemptively and temporarily removing firearms from gun owners judged to be at risk of self-harm or violence against others. Evidence of their population-level impact on suicide r...

Transport Intramedullary Nail for Nonunion

Summary: Nonunions with bone defects create technical challenges for fracture healing. All-internal bone transport with an intramedullary nail offers benefits over the other bone segment transport options including being simpler for the patients, avoiding the associated soft tiss...

Conference Goals And Learning Preferences Among Attendees at A National Surgical Meeting

Objective This study evaluated differences in conference goals and preferred learning modalities across demographic groups at a national surgical conference. Design An optional online survey collected demographic information (gender, practice type, role, years in independent prac...

A Secret-Shopper Study Evaluating Logistic Barriers to Care Among Young Adults with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Abstract Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) experience inferior survival relative to children. As access barriers may increase outcome disparities, we conducted a secret-shopper study to identify logistical burdens when initiating care for...

Counting twitches: automated mechanomyography of muscle fatigue in healthy adults

Abstract Background Assessing skeletal muscle fatigue is essential for diagnosing neuromuscular impairment, but conventional methods rely on maximal or tetanic contractions that can be impractical or uncomfortable in clinical populations. Surface mechanomyography (MMG) provides a...

Fabry Disease: An Updated Perspective and Review of Treatment and Therapies

Fabry disease (FD) is a progressive, multisystemic, X-linked lysosomal storage disorder that when untreated leads to decreased quality of life, chronic pain, and end organ disease; however, advances in therapy have significantly altered its original natural history. This paper br...

Is a tracheoesophageal fistula management still a challenge in low resource setting? Case report of rare type D tracheoesophageal fistula and literature review

Management of the common TEF cases have been with low promising outcomes in low resourced countries as compared to developed countries. Type D Tracheoesophageal fistula is a most rare condition whose management experience, challenges and outcomes are not adequately documented esp...