Romina Nemecek

• Doctor of Medicine
• University of Vienna

High pressure peaks might be a risk factor for the development of abdominal hernia. The course of abdominal pressure during extubation remains unclear. This preliminary study assessed the impact of two established extubation techniques. Twenty-four consecutive patients suffering from abdominal wall hernia with the indication for surgical treatment...

Objective: This study aims to investigate the relationship between gastric emptying, postprandial GLP-1 and insulin sensitivity after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). Background: Abnormal glucose regulation is highly prevalent in patients with pancreatic neoplasm and resolves in some after PD, the cause of which is unclear. The procedure is carried...

Background: Leakage is one of the major complications in gastrointestinal surgery. This preliminary study compared a new barbed absorbable thread for gastrointestinal sutures with monofil suture material in a cadaver model. Methods: In this study, mechanical experiments were performed in 20 recently deceased individuals. Incisions were made in t...

A preliminary clinical trial using state-of-the-art multiphoton tomography (MPT) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) for three-dimensional (3D) multimodal in vivo imaging of normal skin, nevi, scars and pathologic skin lesions has been conducted. MPT enabled visualization of sub-cellular details with axial and transverse resolutions of <2 μm and...