Scientific Surgery Online Journals

This is the Scientific Surgery Archive, which contains all randomized clinical trials in surgery that have been identified by searching the top 50 English language medical journal issues since January 1998. Compiled by Jonothan J. Earnshaw, former Editor-in-Chief, BJS

Scientific Surgery

Effect of remote ischemic preconditioning conducted in living liver donors on postoperative liver function in donors and recipients following liver transplantation. A randomized clinical trial. Ann Surg 2000; 271: 646-653

Authors: Jung K-W, Kang J, Kwon H-M, Moon Y-J, Jun I-G, Song J-G et al.

Scientific Surgery

Randomized trials of endoscopic therapy and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt versus portacaval shunt for emergency and elective treatment of bleeding gastric varices in cirrhosis. Surgery 2015; 157: 1028–1045.

Authors: Orloff MJ, Hye RJ, Wheeler HO, Isenberg JI, Haynes KS, Vaida F et al. et al.

Scientific Surgery

T-tube or no T-tube in cadaveric orthotopic liver transplantation: the eternal dilemma. Results of a prospective randomized clinical trial. Ann Surg 2013; 258: 21-29.

Authors: Lopez-Andujar R, Oron EM, Carregnato AF, Suarez FV, Herraiz AM, Rodriguez FSJ et al. et al.

Scientific Surgery

Prosthetic H-Graft portacaval shunts vs. transjugular intrahepatic portasystemic stent shunts: 18-year follow-up of a randomised trial. J Am Coll Surg 2012; 214: 445–453.

Authors: Rosemurgy AS, Frohman HA, Teta AF, Luberice K, Ross SB

Scientific Surgery

Perioperative synbiotic treatment to prevent infectious complications in patients after elective living donor liver transplantation: a prospective randomized study. Am J Surg 2011; 201: 498–502.

Authors: Eguchi S, Takatsuki M, Hidaka M, Soyama A, Ichikawa T, Kanematsu T. et al.

Scientific Surgery

Biliary reconstruction using a side-to-side choledochocholedochostomy with or without T-tube in deceased donor liver transplantation: a prospective randomized trial. Ann Surg 2009; 250: 766-771.

Authors: Weiss S, Schmidt S-C, Ulrich F, Pascher A, Schumacher G, Stockmann M et al. et al.

Scientific Surgery

Methylprednisolone therapy in deceased donors reduces inflammation in the donor liver and improves outcome after liver transplantation: a prospective randomised controlled trial Ann Surg 2008; 248: 1042¿50

Authors: Kotsch K, Ulrich F, Reutzel-Selke A, Pascher A, Faber WW, Hoffman S et al et al.

Scientific Surgery

Tacrolimus versus microemulsified ciclosporin in liver transplantation: the TMC randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2002; 360: 1119-25

Authors: O'Grady JG, Burroughs A, Hardy P, Elbourne D, Truesdale A and the UK and Republic of Ireland Liver Transplant Study Group

Scientific Surgery

Randomized trial of choledochocholedochostomy with or without a T-tube in orthotopic liver transplantation. Ann Surg 2001; 233: 432-37.

Authors: Scatton O, Meunier B, Cherqui D, Boillot O, Sauvanet A, Boudjema K et al.

Scientific Surgery

Omentoplasty in the prevention of deep abdominal complications after surgery for hydatid disease of the liver: a multi-center prospective randomised trial. J Am Coll Surg 1999; 188: 281-9.

Authors: Dziri C, Paquet J-C, Hay J-M, Fingerhut A, Msika S, Zeitoun GS et al. et al.

Scientific Surgery

Prospective randomized trial of end-to-end versus side-to-side biliary reconstruction after orthotopic liver transplantation. Br J Surg 1999; 86: 447-452.

Authors: Davidson BR, Rai R, Kurzawinski TR, Selves L, Farouk M, Dooley J. S et al. et al.

Scientific Surgery

The prophylactic effect of aprotinin on intra-operative bleeding in liver transplantation: a randomized clinical study. Hepatology 1997; 26: 1143-8.

Authors: Garcia-Huete L, Domenech P, Sabate A, Martinez-Brotons F, Jaurrieta E, Figueras J. et al.