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Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · 10d

What happens when you merge two high volume centers for #pancreas #surgery?
@amsterdamumc.bsky.social ❌❌❌
500 vs 500 Whipples (pre vs post)

✅ 30-day mortality: 2.0 to 0.4%, P=0.02
✅ failure-to-rescue: 4.9 to 1.1%, P=0.04
✅ PPH grade B/C: 8.0 to 4.6%, P=0.027

⏩️ journals.lww.com/annalsofsurg...

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Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · 20d

#HoraEst 🎓today Nine De Graaf @amsterdamumc.bsky.social : “Minimally invasive versus open #pancreatic #surgery”

✅Collaboration @e_mips @DPCG_official
✅81 authors, 12 countries
✅8 chapters, incl #DIPLOMA2 trial in @nejm.org @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social

⏩️ hdl.handle.net/11245.1/1641...

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Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · Aug 31

Building one regional #cancer #network with 13 hospitals for 3.5 million inhabitants (20% of cancer care in 🇳🇱): the #OncoNoVo+ collaborative approach incl regional cancer care pathways. “how we did it” with survey.

⏩️ bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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JAMA @jama.com · Aug 28

"[I]t will be critical to maintain a human in the loop even as we seek to incorporate the strengths of #AI-based review in our editorial process."

Read this Editorial from the editors and staff of JAMA and the JAMA Network journals. #PRC10

ja.ma/41qVq3q

A JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) article titled "Artificial Intelligence in Peer Review" by Roy H. Perlis et al. discusses the role and challenges of AI in the medical peer-review process.

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Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · Aug 22

Google: “google scholar rank journals surgery” (doesn’t allow link I noticed)

Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · Aug 22

Found that @Google #Scholar ranks medical #journals by h-index and decided to check #surgery journals, interesting! @jdimick1 Annals of Surgery 🏆 @jbdimick.bsky.social
@ihpba.bsky.social

⏩️ scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

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Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · Aug 20

The #LEOPARD2 trial changed our nationwide practice dramatically: near ❌stop laparoscopic #Whipple, rapid ✅increase #Robot Whipple. See our letter in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social
🧐 #DIPLOMA2 trial Robot vs open Whipple coming up. @eahpba.bsky.social

⏩️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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BJS Academy @bjsacademy.bsky.social · Aug 14

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JAMA @jama.com · Aug 10

📌 The SPIRIT 2025 statement updates the guidelines for randomized trial protocols to enhance their completeness, transparency, and consistency, benefiting stakeholders involved in clinical research.

ja.ma/4fzMVZS

Figure. SPIRIT 2025 Diagram of the Schedule of Enrollment, Interventions, and Assessments

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · Jul 25

Organ transplantation saves lives 🫁

Yet, according to WHO, only 10% of the global need for transplants is being met.

In our latest issue, a Comment introduces the ESOT transplant–Lancet Commission on Transplantation.

➡️ tinyurl.com/ccysxrux

Cover of The Lancet's July 26, 2025 issue. Quote on cover reads: "It is time to reposition transplantation not as a niche intervention, but as a strategic health system function—one that must align with global goals regarding NCDs, climate resilience, and pandemic preparedness."

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Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · Jul 25

Warm welcome at the 56th Japan Pancreas
Society, Tokyo🇯🇵. Excellent session incl profs Shrikhande🇮🇳, Jang🇰🇷, Nagakawa and Nakamura🇯🇵 on evidence and current nationwide #Robotic #Whipple use:
🇰🇷 33% (incl lap)
🇳🇱 25%
🇮🇳 ~5%
🇯🇵 ~5%

Now 4 RCTs available! @ihpba.bsky.social @eahpba.bsky.social

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BJS Open @bjsopen.bsky.social · Jul 22

Comparison of catheter wound infusion, intrathecal morphine, and intravenous analgesia for postoperative pain management in open liver resection: randomized clinical trial
➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjso...
@bjsacademy.bsky.social
@bjsurgery.bsky.social

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doi.org

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Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · Jul 11

Distribution of the NCCN stages of #PancreaticCancer ?

16,412 pts (2017-2022) 🇳🇱
👉23% primary resectable
👉 8% borderline resectable
👉 11% locally advanced
👉 58% metastatic

⏩️ academic.oup.com/bjs/article/11…

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Giovanni Marchegiani, MD PhD @gio-marchegiani.bsky.social · Jul 9

What is "Conversion surgery" 🐛➡️🦋 for upfront unresectable upper GI and HPB cancers ⁉️

💉 Triggered by improvements in non surgical therapies 🧰 Many techniques included
🏆 Able to improve survival!

💡 All u need to know ⬇ comprehensive review in @bjsopen.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/bjsopen/arti...

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Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · Jul 5

The European Pancreatic Club 2025 meeting in #Dusseldorf 🇩🇪 was a big success. EPC is the only #European wide multidisciplinary meeting regarding only #Pancreas #Pancreatitis #PancreaticCancer

⏩️Excellent #RCTs discussed: #CASSANDRA, #DIPLOMA1, #DIPLOMA2, #PANDRA2, #ESPAC6, #ESPAC7, #SIMBA

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Giovanni Marchegiani, MD PhD @gio-marchegiani.bsky.social · Jun 27

So honored to be part of this!!!

👇🎓💪

Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · Jun 20

#Horaest 🎓 @AnoukEmmen today 🙌
“Improving outcomes in minimally invasive #pancreatoduodenectomy” incl the #DIPLOMA2 RCT. @abuhilal.bsky.social

⏩️ hdl.handle.net/11245.1/5ba777…

Thank you @gio-marchegiani.bsky.social for being here with excellent discussion!

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Ville Sallinen @villesallinen.bsky.social · Jun 20

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!

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Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · Jun 20

#Horaest 🎓 @AnoukEmmen today 🙌
“Improving outcomes in minimally invasive #pancreatoduodenectomy” incl the #DIPLOMA2 RCT. @abuhilal.bsky.social

⏩️ hdl.handle.net/11245.1/5ba777…

Thank you @gio-marchegiani.bsky.social for being here with excellent discussion!

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Vincent Luyendijk @vincentluyendijk.bsky.social · Jun 19

The Most Impressive Bicycle Infrastructure in the Netherlands

Chris Bruntlett compiled the following list of The Netherlands’ most impressive bicycle infrastructure. Forty unique constructions, in alphabetical order.

dutchcycling.nl/knowledge/be...

@dutchcycling.nl @modacitylife.com

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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · Jun 18

Once known as the “Kingdom of Bicycles”, China largely abandoned cycling in the 1990s, handing their streets over to the car in the name of prosperity. But in recent years, policymakers have done a stunning reversal, reallocating vast amounts of space in the name of liveability.

buff.ly/S7fY4eY

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Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · Jun 16

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

authors.elsevier.com

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Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · Jun 16

Do you offer #video #consultation when explaining and consenting to major abdominal (eg #pancreas #liver #esophageal surgery?

Today #VIDEOGO RCT incl 112 pts @thelancet.com DH

📎 Patient, surgeon satisfaction for video non-inferior
📎 Efficacy favored video
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S25…

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Julia Menso @juliamenso.bsky.social · Jun 15

Pleasure to attend and present at #EAHPBA2025 Dublin incl the ongoing #DIPLOMA-2x2 trial and @tropancregistry.bsky.social Wonderful meeting, talks and colleagues! @eahpba.bsky.social @patriciopolanco.bsky.social @carobruna.bsky.social @marcbesselink.bsky.social

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BJS Open @bjsopen.bsky.social · Jun 15

Impact of feeding strategy after pancreatoduodenectomy on delayed gastric emptying and hospital stay: nationwide study
➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjso...

@bjsacademy.bsky.social
@bjsurgery.bsky.social

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doi.org

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Marc Besselink @marcbesselink.bsky.social · Jun 15

Surgeons Cup 2025🇳🇱

🏑All 7 universities (incl teaching centers) playing against eachother in soccer, field hockey, rowing, volleyball, tug of war etc.

🏐 Organised by Amsterdam this year.

🚣 Longstanding tradition

⚽️ Guess who won soccer ☺️
Photo: soccer team Amsterdam region 2025

chirurgencup.nl

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