ABSTRACT NUMBER: NESTAC_15 AUTHORS Farah Mahmoud Ali, Ali Ghareeb, D Garg, Hans Van der Voet, Madan Jha AFFILIATIONS James Cook University Hospital CORRESPONDING AUTHOR CONTACT EMAIL moc.liamg@akzf.haraf MAIN ABSTRACT TEXT Introduction Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the commonest variant of the rather uncommon anal malignancy. Certain disease-related factors have been established in determining…
Abdominal X-rays, at what cost?
ABSTRACT NUMBER: NESTAC_14 AUTHORS Wadah Ali, A Suliman, Stephanie Smith, M Jha AFFILIATIONS James Cook University Hospital CORRESPONDING AUTHOR CONTACT EMAIL ten.shn@ila.hadaW MAIN ABSTRACT TEXT Introduction Abdominal X-rays (AXR) are a routinely requested investigation in the emergency department. There is a common tendency to arrange abdominal x rays in “to complete the work up”…
Epigenetic Analysis and CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing of the Novel Osteoarthritis Susceptibility Locus residing at the PLEC gene
ABSTRACT NUMBER: NESS_13 AUTHORS Antony K Sorial1, Ines MJ Hofer1, Maria Tselepi1, Eleanor Parker1, Sarah J Rice1, David J Deehan2 and John Loughlin1 AFFILIATIONS 1) Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, 2) Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne CORRESPONDING AUTHOR CONTACT EMAIL ku.ca.lcn@lairoS.ynoT MAIN ABSTRACT TEXT Introduction Osteoarthritis (OA) is highly polygenic and OA associated…
Normothermic machine perfusion of donor kidneys; a novel delivery platform for cellular therapeutics to recondition marginal organs
ABSTRACT NUMBER: NESS_12 AUTHORS Emily R Thompson1, Lucy Bates1, Ibrahim K Ibrahim1, Avinash Sewpaul1, Rodrigo Figueriedo1, Ben Stenberg2, Andrew McNeill2, Georgie Wilkins1, Tom Girdlestone1, Henrique de Lamos, Andrew Mellor, Valerie Roobrouck3, Anthony Ting4, Sarah A Hosgood5, Michael L Nicholson5, Andrew J Fisher1, Simi Ali1, Neil Sheerin1, Colin H Wilson AFFILIATIONS 1 NIHR Blood and Transplant…
Epidemiology of adult rib fracture and factors associated with surgical fixation: analysis of a chest wall injury dataset from England and Wales
ABSTRACT NUMBER: NESS_9 AUTHORS Helen MA Ingoe, William Eardley, Catriona McDaid, Amar Rangan, Catherine Hewitt MAIN ABSTRACT TEXT Surgical fixation of rib fractures (SFRF) is growing in popularity as part of optimising care of patients with rib fractures. There is currently no description of the epidemiology of these injuries at a national level; nor has…
The impact of anaemia on the clinical outcomes of infra-inguinal bypass for critical limb ischaemia
ABSTRACT NUMBER: NESS_8 Authors Nandhra.S, Boylan.L, Prentis. J, Nesbitt. C and the Northern Vascular Centre Introduction Anaemia in elective cardio-vascular surgery has been shown to have a detrimental impact on clinical outcomes and survival. Non-elective caseload is high in vascular surgery and the timely revascularisation in critical limb-ischaemia (CLI) significantly contributes towards this workload.…
The Management of T1 Rectal Cancer in the North East of England
ABSTRACT NUMBER: (NESS _ 07) AUTHORS The Northern Surgical Trainees Research Association AFFILIATIONS The Northern Surgical Trainees Research Association CORRESPONDING AUTHOR CONTACT EMAIL moc.liamg@nabahsoldaf MAIN ABSTRACT TEXT Introduction Traditional treatment of rectal cancer is major surgical resection. The management of early stages has evolved with increasing emphasis on organ preservation, with a number of…
Emergency Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for acute gallstone disease – prospective outcome evaluation study
ABSTRACT NUMBER: NESS_6 AIM To evaluate the outcome of a recent change in practice in the management of acute gallstone disease in a district general hospital METHODS Consecutive patients from August 2017 to July 2018 who presented as an emergency with biliary colic, acute calculous cholecystitis (AUGIS 2015 guidelines) or mild acute gallstone pancreatitis (Revised…
MicroRNA-126 prevents endothelial to mesenchymal transition and is downregulated in fibrosis
ABSTRACT NUMBER: NESS_5 AUTHORS Samuel Tingle, Nina Jordan, Lucy Bates, Katie Cooke, Emily Thompson, Helen M Arthur, Colin Wilson, Neil Sheerin, Simi Ali CORRESPONDING AUTHOR CONTACT EMAIL moc.liamg@elgnitsemajmaS MAIN ABSTRACT TEXT Background: Chronic allograft dysfunction, underpinned by progressive fibrosis, remains a major hurdle in renal transplantation. There is a growing body of research demonstrating…
A Systematic Review and Networked Meta-Analysis of different Surgical Approaches for Pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD)
ABSTRACT NUMBER: NESS_4 AUTHORS Sivesh K Kamarajah, BMedSci MBChB,1, 2 James R Bundred, BMedSci,3 Olivier Saint Marc, MD,4 Long R Jiao, MD FRCS,5 Moh’d Abu Hilal, MD, PhD, FRCS, FACS,6 Derek M Manas, MD FRCS,1 Steven A White, MD, FRCPS FRCS1,2 AFFILIATIONS 1. Department of HPB and Transplant Surgery, The Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne,…