Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic Threatens Developing Countries, Global Economy
...oing to be spending their money on expensive heart surgeries orangioplasties, how will they have the money to buy the global goods?" The epidemic mirrors that of the United States and other industrializednations 30 years ago, says Reddy, professor of cardiology at the All IndiaInstitute of Medical S...Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
...chers found that the incidence ofheart attacks and surgeries to restore blood flow to the heart apparently fellprogressively as LDL levels were reduced from 175 to 125 mg/dL. However, further reductions to as low as 71 mg/dL had little impact on risk, says Sacks. "This report suggests that the effect of prav...Visual Environment Can Affect Even Healthy Eyes --- Nature Works With Nuture For Good Vision
...eyes don't grow as fast as they would have. The surgeries available today to correct refractive error do so by altering the curvature of the cornea. The Yerkes lab is attacking the same problem with a different approach -- trying to influence the length of the eye. "It's just an earlier stage of intervent...Margin Width The Key To Control Of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Of The Breast
...metic result. At USC weuse multiple guide wires in surgeries to localize all DCIS lesions followed bycomplete and sequential tissue processing," says Silverstein. "It's verydifficult to remove a DCIS and achieve an adequate margin using a single wire,which is the current standard throughout the U.S." "The bal......smear screenings, along withfollow-up biopsies and surgeries for those whose screenings warrant them, wouldcost about $16,000 per year of life gained, adjusted for quality of life. Bycomparison, annual mammography has been reported to cost approximately $120,000per year of life gained. According to the study'...... "About three years ago, I was doing all of these surgeries with the microscope,"said Dr. Shahinian. "Then I started taking an endoscope and, after doing theprocedure with a microscope, I'd insert the endoscope to look around corners.Then I thought, 'Why am I doing all the approach, all the big dissection wit......handful of complicated, high-risk gastrointestinal surgeries are saferand easier on patients -- and pocketbooks...studied into four categoriesbased on the number of surgeries performed: minimal (10 or less surgeries peryear), low (11-20), medium (21-50), and high-volume (20...Robotic technology to help Ohio State University heart surgeons
... surgical procedures. But some surgeries were considered too complex or risky for this approach, explained Pascal Goldschmidt, professor ofcardiology and director of Ohio State's Heart and LungInstitute. ...OSU Medical Center uses robotic heart surgery technique
...ichler added. More heart surgeries will be conducted at University Medical Center using the da Vinci system as part of a national study that is required by the Food and Drug Administration before the surgery ca...First brain cancer surgeries using new space-age probe are successful
...gy when she was out of options. Shehad endured six surgeries over 10 years, as well as chemotherapy and radiationtreatments traditionally used to treat cancer. But her aggressive cancer keptcoming back. "We are very hopeful that the LED's long, cool wavelengths of light wereable to penetrate wide and d...Doppler ultrasound can reduce hospital stays
...tients over a nine-month period whowere undergoing surgeries that typically result in major blood loss. The fluidlevels of half of the patients were maintained using information gained from theDoppler ultrasound, while the other 50 patients were monitored conventionally. "By optimizing the administrat...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
...cades down. And because the organ is so large,most surgeries on infant hearts result in removal of a portion of the gland,"she said. Markert takes between 2 to 10 grams of the tissue back to a lab,slices it thinly and cultures it up to two weeks -- long enough to destroy mostmature T cells in the gland. ...Visionary physician pioneers alternative clubfoot treatment
... The method offers an alternative to the series of surgeries traditionally prescribed for many patients. Despite the success of the method, Ponseti, Weinstein and Dietz continue to struggle against time and tradition to raise awareness of it. Only a handful of orthopaedic surgeons currently use this non-surgi...New gene therapy shows promise in improving success rate of leg bypass surgeries
...e blocked vessel. "As many as half of all bypass surgeries fail five to ten years after the operation because...therapy. The researchers decided to study bypass surgeries of the leg rather than those of the heart because they are easier to monitor with non-invasive ultra...Study shows women more likely to have severe arthritis, less likely to undergo surgery
...tudies have found similar results with life-saving surgeries like kidney transplants and coronary bypass, but this is the first time researchers have examined an elective surgery. "I believe this finding relates to health care needs of women in general, especially elective procedures like cataract surgery, whe......mors. Patients undergoing these minimally invasive surgeries were assigned to one of three groups. One group experienced normal interactions with nurses and doctors. Another group received extra attention from an additional person in the operating room. The third group of patients received assistance during th......ical School, performs approximately 200 open-heart surgeries a year. He received his medical degree and completed his residency program at Baylor College of Medicine, where he served under famed heart surgeon Michael Debakey. During the past two years, Cohn has licensed three additional patents for medical dev......indeed respond to pain. Today, pain from traumatic surgeries in newborns is carefully managed with anesthesia and analgesics. Scientists have learned that by 24 weeks gestation, very immature pain transmission pathways are already in place. The development of these pathways continues postnatally. What......al, even when the children were very young. Repeat surgeries and readmissions were cut in half when adjuvant adenoidectomy was performed on children younger than two, while similar outcomes were reported for adjuvant adenotonsillectomy for children as young as one, but were greatest for children aged three and...