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Latest news and updates about Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust including MTW Hospitals Charity and research news.
Our research: publications by our staff
Research supports the discovery of new and improved ways of treating diseases and their symptoms, and takes place across a range of specialties, supported by a large number of staff.
Our research programme is a balance of commercial (industry), NIHR portfolio and own account research projects. Projects include observational and interventional.
The publications listed are those authored by members of staff (highlighted in bold) published in June.
This list does not include publications where staff members or teams have been acknowledged or listed as collaborators, or the organisation has been listed as a trial site.
Our publications in July
Outcomes of descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty in patients under thirty years old
Authors: Balal, Shafi; Janmohamed, Imran Karim (Ophthalmology); Song, Anna; Hussain, Rohan; Maqsood, Sundas and Maurino, Vincenzo
European Journal of Ophthalmology 36(4), pp. 881–887
Advanced cartilage damage and radiographic osteoarthritis are associated with inferior outcomes and higher rates of conversion to total hip arthroplasty after hip labral reconstructions: A systematic review
Authors: Basal, Ozgur; Karakas, Furkan; Jefferies, James G. (Orthopaedics); Serdar, Jure; Kocaoglu, Baris and Doral, Mahmut Nedim
Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics 13(3), pp. e70812
Interpreting troponin elevation after surgery: diagnostic challenges and a pragmatic approach
Authors: Dave, M.; Mokrzycki, K. and Bailey, C.
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Development of Standards for Presenting and Reporting clinical InterveNtions Televisually (SPRINT) reporting guidelines: A study protocol
Authors: Fadel, Michael G.; Robb, Henry Douglas; Das, Bibek; Alizadeh, Ayda; Arif, Aksaan; Ariarasa, Olivia; Fehervari, Matyas (Bariatric Surgery) and Ashrafian, Hutan
Relapsing CNS involvement in MGUS-an Occam's razor?
Authors: Iqbal, Naveed; Chattha, Navraj; Musthafa, Alisha and Hamza, Ahmed (Stroke Medicine)
BMJ Case Reports 19(7), pp. e270217. doi: 10.1136/bcr–270217
Short-term intraocular pressure changes following intravitreal injections of aflibercept 8mg versus 2mg: A prospective comparative study
Authors: Janmohamed, Imran Karim; Sahbi, Saleh; Mahmood, Arsam; Monib, Haasher; Nawaz, Hamza; Hannan, Shabeeba; Ata, Anibe and Membrey, Luke (Ophthalmology)
European Journal of Ophthalmology , pp. 11206721261471322
Prognostic markers, quality of life (QoL) and value of health (V-He) in advanced biliary cancers (ABC) treated with second-line active symptom control (ASC) alone or ASC with oxaliplatin-5-FU chemotherapy (ASC + FOLFOX) in the randomised phase III, multicentre, open-label ABC-06 clinical trial
Authors: Lamarca, A.; Palmer, D. H.; Wasan, H. S.; Ross, P. J.; Ma, Y. T.; Arora, A.; Falk, S.; Gillmore, R.; Wadsley, J.; Patel, K.; Anthoney, A.; Maraveyas, A.; Iveson, T.; Waters, J. S.; Hobbs, C.; Macdonald, T.; Ryder, D.; Ramage, J.; Davies, L. M.; Bridgewater, J. A., Waters, J.S. (Kent Oncology Centre), et al
Clinically meaningful thresholds in patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for arthroscopic meniscal surgery: A systematic review with narrative synthesis
Authors: Liu, Perry; Carter, Gary; Burchette, Daniel; Ravikumar, Kasetti and Zhao, Craig (Orthopaedics)
Journal of Orthopaedics 77, pp. 1–8
Priapism in the paediatric and adolescent population
Authors: Mushtaq, Anah (General Surgery); Jayasimha, Sudhindra; To, Wilson King Lim and Mushtaq, Imran
International Journal of Impotence Research 38(7), pp. 563–573
Sight-saving outcome with thrombolysis in central retinal artery occlusion
Authors: Musthafa, Alisha (Stroke Medicine) and Mahmood, Afzal
BMJ Case Reports 19(7), pp. e271724. doi: 10.1136/bcr–271724
Periodontal inflammation: A clinically significant and underrecognized cardiovascular risk factor-The Endothelial Risk Score (ERS): A narrative review with conceptual framework development
Authors: Nwhator, Solomon Olusegun; Ogunwemimo, Morolayo Tolulope; Akinyele, Olumide Akinniyi; Adetunji, Tajudin Adesegun; Onabanjo, Olusoji Ayodele; Ogunleye, Babatope Andrew; Adewole, Kehinde Olunike; Adewole, Opeyemi Matthew (Geriatric Medicine); Ojo, Ibukun Olasunkanmi; Ogundiran, Tolulopeand Nwhator, Promise Ayobami
American Heart Journal Plus : Cardiology Research and Practice 67, pp. 100808
Vascular Surgery Training and Practice in West Africa: A Narrative Review of Current Capacity and Challenges
Authors: Ikwu, Chiedozie. K. A. (Emergency Medicine), Opeyem, O., Tiamiyu, T. M., Okezie, A. S., Sanni, Q. A., Ajah, J., & Oyekan, O. A.
Journal of West African College of Surgeons
Bridging the Quality Assurance Gap - Light vs Radiation, Field Size and Light Sources
Authors: Solomon Moyo; Vasilakis Anastasis; KK Sreelakshmi; Mohamed Madani; Ahmed Ramadan (Kent Oncology Centre).