Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
...hich refers to any surgical procedure in which the surgeon accesses the surgical site by means of small incis... the aneurysm. At present, the only means that the surgeon has available for estimating this dimension is the technique if placing a probing instrument of know...UNC-CH Researchers Discover Key Cancer Control Mechanism
...erdevelopment and possibly future treatments," the surgeon said. "It looks likethis is going to evolve into a pretty big deal."...RNA-Dendritic Cell Combo Shows Promise As A Universal Cancer Vaccine
...said. The center, under the leadership of surgeon Dr. H. Kim Lyerly, will bemaking vaccines for about 100 patients to be enrolled in the second phase of aclinical trial, testing the vaccine for breast, lung and colorectal cancers. Thefirst phase of the trial has shown that the vaccine is not only sa......dure was headed by Ira Fox, M.D., a UNMCtransplant surgeon who collaborated with J. Roy-Chowdhury, M.D. and N.Roy-Chowdury, Ph.D., liver disease experts at the Albert Einstein College ofMedicine in Bronx, N.Y., and Stephen Strom, Ph.D., an expert in isolating humanliver cells from the University of Pittsbur...Out On A Limb: Young Burro Receives Artificial Leg At Colorado State
...rther consultation. Trotter, a veterinary surgeon who specializes in horses, saw the animalin June and found that an infection, similar to a staphylococcus infection inhumans, had reached the bone in both legs. The infection had so weakened theright rear limb that the bone cracked. Trotter, who had ......sts positive for hepatitis B (anti-HBcpositive), a surgeon may do so even if it places the recipient at an increasedrisk for becoming infected with the virus. Post-transplant hepatitis Binfection, which is usually evident within six months, is difficult to treat andcan eventually lead to cirrhosis of the tr...UNC-CH Ligament-Tendon Structure Discovery May Lead To Better Treatment, Scientists Explain
... more similarities intissues than differences, the surgeon said. Further experiments should confirmthat identical or comparable peptides work in humans. "We have known for a long time that after injuries, the body heals bymaking tiny collagen fibrils although we don't know how long they are yet,"Dahn...Researchers Find Fas Ligand Is Important In Blinding Disease
...is approach is that while removingthe vessels, the surgeon also is likely to remove a thin layer of cells at theback of the retina called the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). These cellsnourish photoreceptor cells that convert light impulses into vision. If asurgeon removes abnormal vessels along with the R......ility in the United States. McIlwraith, a surgeon and director of the Equine Sciences Program atColorado State's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, hasworked for the past 12 years on horses with osteoarthritis--cartilage loss thatcauses bone to rub against bone, producing pain a...Procedure, new apparatus may allow relief from incontinence
...e realize," said Dr. SharonGregorcyk, a colorectal surgeon and assistant professor of surgery at UTSouthwestern Medical Center at Dallas. She is overseeing UT Southwestern'sparticipation in a multicenter trial of a new artificial bowel sphincter device. UT Southwestern is one of 14 centers participating in t...Fighting skin cancers with computers and technology
...que, performed in an outpatientsetting, allows the surgeon to remove tissue and assess it immediately, layer bylayer, a procedure that is exquisitely precise. Any remaining cancer cells arecarefully traced microscopically and surgically removed while sparing all normaltissue. The procedure is designed to o...Gene treatment can boost heart function in rabbits, Duke researchers say
...ke the nativeßAR," said Koch. Heart surgeon Donald Glower, and researchers John Maurice, JonathanHata, Ashish Shah, David White, Patricia McDonald, Paul Dolber and KatrinaWilson also contributed to the study....Children are at greatest risk of eye damage during the eclipse
...t risk of eye damage, says a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in this weekend's BMJ. Mr Jonathan Dowler from Moorfields Eye Hospital in London also warns that those with existing eye problems and people who have been drinking alcohol or using recreational drugs are also at particular risk from looking at the s......naiMedical Center has recruited a heart transplant surgeon who specializes inimplanting mechanisms that allow a defective heart to rest while awaiting atransplant. Kathy Elizabeth Magliato, M.D., recently served as cardiothoracic transplantfellow and clinical instructor of cardiothoracic transplant surgery a...Parathyroid tumors can be removed safely in outpatient procedure
...e December issue of the journal Surgery, endocrine surgeon Robert Udelsman, M.D.,notes that his patients trea... procedure, the patientis awake and can talk. The surgeon can assess the patient's voice during manipulation of the vocalcord nerve. This information helps t...Laser light from Free-Electron Laser used for first time in human surgery
...ating on the interior bends the light, allowingthe surgeon to reach most of the areas of the surgical field. The hand piece that Jansen designed hasa lens that focuses the beam down to a 0.2 millimeter spot, the size required to concentrate the beamfor effective tissue removal. In 1995, an award from the W....Side effects of prostate cancer surgery far less when performed by specialist
...researchers conclude that when patients seek out a surgeon highly experienced in the procedure, they are far more likely to remain continent and potent than if their operations were done by a less experienced doctor. In addition, the study's potency and continency rates are the highest ever reported after p...Molecular repair of ruptured discs
...iation." Dr. Hirotaka Haro, a visiting orthopaedic surgeon from Japan, initiated a collaboration with Lynn M. Matrisian, Ph.D., professor and interim chair of Cell Biology, to examine the molecules at work in herniated disc resorption. Haro had previously demonstrated that proteins called matrix metalloprote...Protein that stimulates blood vessel growth also helps repair broken bones
...n-bony healing, said Ted Miclau, MD, an orthopedic surgeon who works in Helms' lab. "The fractures that tend not to heal are open fractures and those from high energy accidents, such as high speed auto, or pedestrian vs. auto accidents,' he said. In addition to studying VEGF's role in bone healing, Helms......lls are transferred to a long-needled syringe, the surgeon uses CT to guide their injection at multiple sites. The surgeon injects these cells through a small opening in the skull, and patients generally leave the hospital ...