Swiekatowski KR

[BACKGROUND] Phalloplasty plays an important role in female-to-male (FTM) gender affirmation surgery to create a neophallus that prioritizes aesthetic and functional outcomes. Patients have a variety of flap choices for phalloplasty, but th…

Free flap reconstruction for lower extremity (LE) trauma has a higher failure rate than free flaps in other anatomic regions. Postoperative anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy may influence LE free flap outcomes, but an optimal regimen…

[BACKGROUND]  The rising clinical importance of assessing frailty is driven by its predictive capability for postoperative outcomes. This study assesses the effectiveness of RAI-rev (Revised Risk Analysis Index) in predicting adverse outcom…

[BACKGROUND] Although traditional teaching advocates that microsurgical anastomoses should be performed to uninjured vessels outside the zone of injury (ZOI), there is no defined way to assess the extent of the ZOI, and uninjured vessels ma…

Muscle flaps were historically considered superior to fasciocutaneous (FC) flaps for coverage of open fractures and exposed hardware. However, both flap types are now commonly used in modern lower extremity (LE) reconstruction, and it remai…

[BACKGROUND]  Blood transfusions have been associated with surgical complications; however, these studies are not specific to lower extremity (LE) reconstruction. We evaluated the effect of perioperative packed red blood cell (PRBC) transfu…