Katarzyna Kania

• Doctor of Medicine
• Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Resident at Baylor College of Medicine

Advances in surgical instruments, magnification technology, perforator dissection techniques, and vascular imaging over the past decades have facilitated exponential growth in the field of microsurgery. With wide application potential including but not limited to limb salvage, breast reconstruction, lymphedema treatment, and sex affirmation surgery...

Breast reconstruction has evolved in the last 25 years to provide women with better autologous and implant‐based options. The general trends of breast reconstruction have shifted to skin and nipple‐areolar complex preservation, resulting in improved aesthetics and patient satisfaction. Autologous reconstruction has made a dramatic movement toward m...

Research over the last 50 years has led to significant improvements in outcomes for burn victims. Advances in infection control, attenuation of the hypermetabolic response, and new improved surgical approaches have led to decreased morbidity and mortality. Early wound excision eliminates the devitalized tissue, which is the main reservoir for patho...

Background: The pectoralis major is a versatile flap used as an advancement or turnover flap for sternal wound treatment. The advancement flap provides suboptimal inferior sternal coverage and poorly fills mediastinal dead space. The turnover flap covers the inferior sternum and fills dead space but requires disinsertion of the muscle from the hum...

Congenital blepharoptosis, caused by levator muscle dysgenesis, presents at birth and may lead to disturbed visual development and function. Other causes of ptosis in pediatric patients can be myogenic, neurogenic, mechanical, or traumatic. Timely correction is, therefore, critical, and careful preoperative planning and intraoperative consideration...

Periprosthetic infection is a major complication in breast reconstruction, leading to implant loss and delayed and sometimes abandoned reconstruction. Traditional management of persistent infections requires explantation followed by secondary reconstruction after 6 months of delay. Although effective in treating the infection, this approach often l...

OBJECTIVE Concerns about mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) have increased in recent years, and neurosurgical consultation is often requested for patients with radiographic abnormalities or clinical findings suspicious for mTBI. However, to the authors' knowledge, no study has used the Acute Concussion Evaluation (ACE) tool to systematically evalua...

As the physiologic recovery period concludes, the patient is evaluated for surgical procedures that may rebalance muscle function and correct deformity. Upper extremity function is the product of complex and highly sophisticated mechanisms working in unison, and a careful, systematic preoperative evaluation is critical. A good function of the hand...

Rhinoplasty for Asians is quite different from that of Westerners. Most Asians desire a raised nasal bridge with a projected nasal tip, similar to that of Westerners. Nevertheless, most Asian nasal bones, and upper and lower lateral cartilages are inadequately developed. This largely necessitates the use of a nasal alloplastic material such as a si...

Augmentation rhinoplasty among Asian patients is often performed to improve the height of the nasal dorsum. As the use of autogenous tissues poses certain limitations, alloplastic materials are a viable alternative with a long history of use in Asia. The superiority of one implant prosthesis over another for augmentation rhinoplasty is a matter of...

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Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common extracranial solid tumor of childhood. In high-risk NB, the MYCN gene is amplified in approximately 25% of all cases, and is considered to be a negative prognostic factor. MYCN can transcriptionally activate the murine double minute-2 (MDM2) gene, leading to increased expression of MDM2, downregulation of the t...

Neuroblastoma (NB) arises in the sympathetic nervous system and is the most common extracranial solid tumor of childhood. While treatment outcome for NB has improved over the years, the survival of children with disseminated, high-risk NB tumors is less than 50%. To improve treatment outcome in these patients, inhibition of murine double minute-2 (...