Ville Sallinen
@villesallinen.bsky.social
A/Professor, HPB/Transplant surgeon, Helsinki University Hospital. Editor-in-Chief @bjsopen
Assessment of D-FRS on external cohort in San Raffaele, Milan, Italy AUC 0.49, discrimination and calibration poor. 👉 Shows nicely why external validation is so important! Would love to see DISPAIR-FRS further validated externally! link.springer.com/article/10.1... @stefanopartelli.bsky.social
New: Failure to rescue (FTR) in early versus later severe anastomotic leakage after colorectal surgery - Annals of Surgery 8562 resections -> 3.3% severe leak rate FTR higher after leak after emergency resection versus elective (29% vs 11%) #OpenAccess 👇🧵1/2
Time flies and @bjsurgery.bsky.social / @bjsopen.bsky.social editorial assistants rotate. Huge gratitude goes to our out-going editorial assistants Yung Lee, @hansl16.bsky.social and Laura Maggino - I’ve learned a great deal from you! 🙏 Terms end, but you will be part of BJS Family forever!
New Impact Factors are out! JAMA Surgery 14.9 BJS 8.8 Annals of Surgery 6.4 BJS Open 4.5 Dis Col Rectum 3.7 J Trauma 3.7 Ann Surg Oncol 3.5 JACS 3.4 EJSO 2.9 Surgery 2.7 Surg Endosc 2.7 Colorectal Dis 2.7 WJS 2.5 Hernia 2.4 HPB 2.4 JGIS 2.4 Langenbeck’s 1.8 Scand J Surg 1.8
🔥🆕PERFECT RCT Preoperatively started antibiotic treatment did not decrease the risk of appendiceal perforation when appendectomy was performed within 24h in adult patients with presumed uncomplicated acute appendicitis. #IDsky A new standard of care? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Role of Preoperative Antibiotic Treatment While Awaiting Appendectomy
This noninferiority randomized clinical trial investigates the effect of preoperatively started antibiotic treatment on the risk of appendiceal perforation.
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New 🇫🇮🇳🇴RCT out @jama.com/Surgery🔥 Results from antibiotics layer of the PERFECT trial: Antibiotics or no while awaiting for appendectomy for presumed uncompl appendicitis 1797 patients Perforations: 8.3% vs 8.9% Surg site infections: 1.6% vs 3.2% (p=0.03) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Join us for NordicHPB/NOLCA conference in Helsinki 18.-19. September 2025. Stellar speakers on HPB surgery, advanced endoscopy (ERCP/EUS), robotic surgery and oncology! 10 days left to secure your place for early bird price (before May 19)! See nordichpb.com for info!
Read also Invited Commentary by Sara Myers & Jennifer Davids in @jama.com/Surgery -> LASER Focus on Long-Term Outcomes for Diverticular Disease
Ville Sallinen@villesallinen.bsky.social · 2y agoLASER trial 4-year results @jama.com/Surgery Sigmoid resection vs conservative treatment for recurrent diverticulitis: No difference in QOL or complications Recurrences 16% vs 92% BUT, 32% crossed conservative>surgery (pts w low QOL) Interpretation🤔: Surgery for pts w low QOL Open Access Link👇
MedPage Today @medpagetoday.bsky.social : Upfront Surgery for Diverticulitis Reduced Recurrence Without Affecting QOL — At 4 years, LASER reported similar QOL and complications for surgery and conservative treatment www.medpagetoday.com/gastroentero...
Upfront Surgery for Diverticulitis Reduced Recurrence Without Affecting QOL
At 4 years, LASER reported similar QOL and complications for surgery and conservative treatment
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LASER trial 4-year results @jama.com/Surgery Sigmoid resection vs conservative treatment for recurrent diverticulitis: No difference in QOL or complications Recurrences 16% vs 92% BUT, 32% crossed conservative>surgery (pts w low QOL) Interpretation🤔: Surgery for pts w low QOL Open Access Link👇
All ready for Gastrointestinal Surgery DavosCourse! Record number of participants! Let’s go! 💪
From a really interesting thread posted by @scullingmonkey.bsky.social , this open access commentary is a real gem and should be of interest to all surgeons. There are discrepancies between what is being reported from the relevant RCT's versus what the data from a related registry actually reveal
Kasia@scullingmonkey.bsky.social · 2y agoPost scriptum: its also a great honour to have this invited commentary with @wannabehawkeye.bsky.social 's thoughts published alongside our work 🙏 academic.oup.com/bjsopen/arti...
Predicting risk for pancreatic fistula after left pancreatectomy: 2 risk scores were assessed in international cohort of 2284 patients from 🇫🇮🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇷🇳🇴🇨🇦🇩🇰 DISPAIR and D-FRS performed poorly 👉 We combined and validated new DISPAIR-FRS score with better performance Links 👇
How do patients in clinical trials compare to those we see in our clinical practice. We asked just that: Hot off the press in @bjsopen.bsky.social #vascular #medksy #bettertrials #evidencebasedmedicine Read here 👇 academic.oup.com/bjsopen/arti... 1/5
External validity of randomized clinical trials in vascular surgery: systematic review of demographic factors of patients recruited to randomized clinical trials with comparison to the National Vascul...
Practicing evidence-based medicine requires that the patients we encounter in daily practice are represented in the populations recruited to randomized cli
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Duodecim-lehden 140v juhlasarja: Kommentoimme Panu Mentulan kanssa vuonna 1893 julkaistua kirjoitusta appendisiitista. Jo tuolloin tunnistettiin spontaanisti paraneva appendisiitti, jota silloin hoidettiin konservatiivisesti. Nyt ympyrä sulkeutuu, kun tähän ollaan palaamassa. Linkki 👇
Prospective multicenter study to develop and validate two risk scores to improve treatment of adhesive small bowel obstruction @bjsurgery.bsky.social STRISK: strangulation risk NOFA: non-op treatment failure risk Calc: www.tinyurl.com/strisk academic.oup.com/bjs/article/112/3/znaf025/8086860
🔹 Another fantastic #ESSO course on #PancreaticCancer successfully completed! 🔹 This time in a new location: Hamburg ! 🇩🇪✨ A big thank you to #ThiloHackert and #FelixNickel for hosting us, and to the amazing faculty @erangelova.bsky.social, @villesallinen.bsky.social, #AlainSauvanet and #SvenMieog
🔊 Editor Assistant Bursaries are now OPEN! 🔊 An exciting opportunity to join the BJS & BJS Open and gain hands-on editorial experience. Apply now or share with someone who’d be great for the role! ➡️ buff.ly/QJIDzFe @bjsurgery.bsky.social @bjsopen.bsky.social #SurgSky #MedSky
Editor assistant bursaries 2025
The BJS Foundation editor assistant bursaries aim to encourage young surgeons to take an interest in medical publishing. Recruited annually, editor assistant bursaries are suitable for applicants at…
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Happy to say our group got funded. Big thanks to @sigridjuselius.bsky.social for the continuous support for our research! www.sigridjuselius.fi/en/news/new-...
New grants awarded – the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation supports medical research with 28 million euro in 2025 - Sigrid Jusélius Foundation
The 1–3-year grants from the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation have been granted. In addition, the annual meeting of the Foundation approved the disbursement for the rest of the year: a total of 28 million e...
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📝 Want to know how to write a clinical paper? We have a 4️⃣ part series dedicated to just that! 📽️ Watch part 2️⃣, taught by @villesallinen.bsky.social, Editor-in-Chief, of @bjsopen.bsky.social here ➡️ https://buff.ly/4b3QNzN #SurgSky #MedSky
How to write a clinical paper – Part 2 of 4
Short BJS Course â Part 2 of 4 Ville Sallinen, Editor-in-Chief, BJS Open
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Tuoreessa Duodecim-lehden podcastissä juttelemme Kari Hevossaaren kanssa mm anafylaksiasta, haimansiirroista ja rokotuksista! 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/2CEp...
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Today my 6th PhD student Timo Tarvainen defended his thesis - Perioperative pharmacological mitigation of complications of pancreatic surgery + insights into Groove pancreatitis. We had a great honor to have Stefan Stättner from Austria as a fantastic opponent! Thread on findings 👇
LOVE YOUR LIVER - See Top 7 liver papers from BJS Journals 👇 🫵 Which one is your favourite?
BJS Academy@bjsacademy.bsky.social · 2y ago💚 January is Love Your Liver Awareness Month: Check out 7️⃣ of the most important liver studies published in BJS and BJS Open over the past year ➡️ https://buff.ly/4hqNHrD #Liver #SurgSky #HCC @bjsurgery.bsky.social @bjsopen.bsky.social
Gastric partitioning versus gastrojejunostomy for gastric outlet obstruction due to unresectable gastric cancer: randomized clinical trial ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjso... #medsky #surgsky #gastrosky @bjsacademy.bsky.social @bjsurgery.bsky.social @drjuliomayol.bsky.social
COLLISION trial 🇳🇱 just out @TheLancetOncol 1st RCT: Ablation vs surgery for small (<3cm, <10 mets) colorectal liver mets ☑️Overall survival similar ☑️Slightly better local control per tumor in ablation group! ☑️Less adverse events in ablation group www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Such a great, funny, heart-breaking interview between John Monson & Neil Smart. For everybody who hasn’t watched it yet, this is a must-see. #surgsky @bjsurgery.bsky.social @drjuliomayol.bsky.social @sages.org @liangrhea.bsky.social @villesallinen.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyXJ...
Neil Smart - Surgeon and Unexpected Patient
YouTube video by Surgeons' Lives - Stuff that Matters
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JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods: Factorial clinical trial designs allow for the simultaneous evaluation of multiple treatments and their interactions. ja.ma/4gTWOB8 #MedSky
Important decision: Finland Publication Forum will downgrade hundreds of Frontiers and MDPI journals. Among those are Frontiers in Surgery and Frontiers in Endocrinology. ://retractionwatch.com/2024/12/24/finland-publication-forum-will-downgrade-hundreds-of-frontiers-and-mdpi-journals/