Clinical Challenges in Endocrine Surgery: Adrenalectomy Guidelines Review

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode the Endocrine Surgery team at BTK goes over two cases to review the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for Adrenalectomy.

Dr. Michael Yeh is a Professor of Surgery at UCLA and serves as Section Chief of the UCLA Endocrine Surgery program which he established.

Dr. Masha Livhits is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCLA and works in the Endocrine Surgery Department

Dr. James Wu is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCLA and works in the Endocrine Surgery Department

Dr. Na Eun Kim is an Endocrine Surgery Fellow at UCLA in his first year of fellowship

Dr. Rivfka Shenoy is a PGY-5 General Surgery Resident at UCLA who has completed two years of research

Dr. Max Schumm is a PGY-5 General Surgery Resident at UCLA who has completed two years of research. He is a future endocrine surgeon.

Important Papers

Yip L, Duh QY, Wachtel H, Jimenez C, Sturgeon C, Lee C, Velázquez-Fernández D, Berber E, Hammer GD, Bancos I, Lee JA, Marko J, Morris-Wiseman LF, Hughes MS, Livhits MJ, Han MA, Smith PW, Wilhelm S, Asa SL, Fahey TJ 3rd, McKenzie TJ, Strong VE, Perrier ND. American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for Adrenalectomy: Executive Summary. JAMA Surg. 2022 Oct 1;157(10):870-877. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2022.3544. PMID: 35976622; PMCID: PMC9386598.

Schumm M, Hu MY, Sant V, Kim J, Tseng CH, Sanz J, Raman S, Yu R, Livhits M. Automated extraction of incidental adrenal nodules from electronic health records. Surgery. 2023 Jan;173(1):52-58. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2022.07.028. Epub 2022 Oct 4. PMID: 36207197.

M. Conall Dennedy, Anand K. Annamalai, Olivia Prankerd-Smith, Natalie Freeman, Kuhan Vengopal, Johann Graggaber, Olympia Koulouri, Andrew S. Powlson, Ashley Shaw, David J. Halsall, Mark Gurnell, Low DHEAS: A Sensitive and Specific Test for the Detection of Subclinical Hypercortisolism in Adrenal Incidentalomas, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 102, Issue 3, 1 March 2017, Pages 786–792, https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2016-2718

Amar, L., Pacak, K., Steichen, O. et al. International consensus on initial screening and follow-up of asymptomatic SDHx mutation carriers. Nat Rev Endocrinol 17, 435–444 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-021-00492-3

**Fellowship application link: https://forms.gle/PiKM2MMQpE5jSAeW7

Please visit https://behindtheknife.org to access other high-yield surgical education podcasts, videos and more.

If you liked this episode, check out other endocrine episodes here: https://behindtheknife.org/podcast-category/endocrine/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Are you receiving tax credits? If so, this message is for you.
0:04.4	Tax credits are coming to an end, and most people will be asked to apply for universal credit instead.
0:10.0	The Department for Work and Pensions is writing to tax credit claimants.
0:14.2	You won't be moved automatically, so look out for your letter explaining what you'll need to do and by when.
0:19.5	And there's also lots of support to help you make the move.
0:22.4	Get ready for your universal credit switch over.
0:25.4	Search, Understanding Universal Credit today.
0:28.1	Eligibility criteria apply.
0:35.9	Behind the night, the surgery podcast.
0:39.0	Relevant and engaging content to sign to help you dominate the day.
0:43.0	Have you been working hard to dominate your surgical residency?
0:55.9	Do you want to help others to dominate, no matter what stage of training they're in?
1:00.0	Hi to all of our BTK listeners. My name is Nina Clark, General Surgery resident at the University
1:04.7	of Washington. And I'm Jessica Mallard, General Surgery resident at the University of Michigan.
1:09.5	We both have had the privilege of working as behind-the-knife education
1:12.8	fellows for the past year, and we're excited to continue growing our team.
1:16.5	Are you a surgical resident interested and enthusiastic about surgical education?
1:20.9	BTK is offering a two-year surgical education fellowship, starting July 1st, 2023,
1:26.6	and ending June 30th, 2025.
1:29.2	Only residents who are starting a two-year block, a professional development time,
1:33.2	away from full-time clinical activity will be considered.
1:36.4	And you have to ensure that your institution and mentor a proof of this fellowship.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.