Patients undergoing weight loss surgery have high rates of H pylori bacteria
...atment to eradicate the bacterial infection before surgery may be beneficial, according to an article in the ... for weight loss surgery, including gastric bypass surgery (surgery that results in food bypassing much of the intestinal tract). Twenty to 50 percent of peopl...Patients with chronic sinus do not necessarily develop antibiotic resistance
...tibiotics as a first-line treatment for CRS before surgery is considered, the article states. Neil Bhattacharyya, M.D., and Lynn J. Kepnes, R.N.P. of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, investigated whether patients with CRS develop an increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance over time. Over ...Minimally invasive surgery for heart rhythm abnormality proven effective
...hoenberg Professor of Surgery and chief of cardiac surgery at the School of Medicine, and a cardiac surgeon a...ion, and about 15 percent needed a pacemaker after surgery to help maintain a normal heart rhythm. A little over 90 percent of patients followed for six months...Novel drug-antidote strategy provides greater control of drug action
...enger, Ph.D., vice chairman of research for Duke's surgery department and senior member of the research team....anticoagulants and who then must undergo emergency surgery can also face life-threatening delays, said Sullenger. "One of the biggest problems we face as c...A controlled study of peripheral neuropathy after bariatric surgery
WASHINGTON--Bariatric surgery for morbid obesity is associated with neurological...t or obese. As more people elect to have bariatric surgery for morbid obesity, it's important to monitor our experience with these surgeries and make them as s...Life saving option replaces open heart surgery in newborns
...and neurological damage associated with open-heart surgery on newborns with a congenital heart defect, accord...k of serious side effects and death. "The initial surgery has roughly a 20 percent mortality rate," Dr. Bacha said. "This is a very dangerous surgery for thes...Gastric bypass and stomach-stapling patients should recognize risk of nerve injury post-surgery
...s who undergo "stomach stapling" or gastric bypass surgery for weight reduction develop peripheral neuropathy...ritional care. "Surgeons who do weight-reduction surgery and the general public and should be aware that nerve damage is a frequent consequence of the surger...Department of Energy announces new agreement with USC, national labs and private company
...than its predecessor, and requires a less invasive surgery to implant. The hope is to quickly move up to a significantly larger array in the next few years, and then-perhaps within 10 years-to a 1,000-electrode implant that will allow its users to see image details, recognize faces, and read normal-sized typ...Biotech breakthrough in islet cell replacement for type 1 diabetes
...or and vice chair of research in the department of surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The grant represents a unique multidisciplinary initiative to enhance survival of transplanted islet cells in patients with type 1 diabetes, linking Northwest...Whole blood may do more harm than good in pediatric heart surgeries
...ld help reduce hospital stays for infants who have surgery for heart defects and help reduce some of the inve...volved 200 children under age 1 who required heart surgery using the heart-lung bypass machine, which adds oxygen to blood and maintains circulation while the ...Blacks report better sexual, urinary function after prostate surgery than whites
LOS ANGELES (Oct. 13)-Five years after surgery for prostate cancer, African-American men reported... cancer patients who were treated through prostate surgery (prostatectomy) or radiation therapy. They asked the men about changes in their urinary, bowel and s...Reconstituted blood is better for infants' heart surgery than fresh blood
...e operating room just before use for heart bypass surgery in infants works better than using fresh whole blo...Babies who received the reconstituted blood during surgery to repair congenital heart defects on average had shorter stays in the intensive care unit and spent...Surgical treatment for obesity appears effective for weight loss and related disorders
...y obese patients who underwent bariatric (obesity) surgery experienced effective weight loss and improvement ...tric surgery, to determine the impact of bariatric surgery on weight loss, operative mortality outcome, and four obesity related disorders (diabetes, hyperlipi...Limiting angioplasty to experienced hospitals will not reduce access to care
...wer rates of inpatient mortality, emergency bypass surgery and complications," said the study's first author ...ng pancreas and esophagus removal, coronary bypass surgery and pediatric heart surgery have reported small increases in travel distance or time for the majori...Stanford to test effects of drug widely used for pediatric hypertension
...udy a hypertension drug commonly used in pediatric surgery and pediatric intensive-care settings. The work is needed because the company that invented the drug some 30 years ago never studied its effects in pediatric patients. And after the drug's patent expired, its price dropped so low that no company will...Epilepsy study shows memory loss after brain surgery
...nition. Three months after surgery, patients with surgery performed on either the left or right brain tissue...s later 30% -50% of those patients who experienced surgery to the left temporal lobe showed no recovery of verbal memory, while patients who had surgery on the...Botox could play a key role in pain control during breast reconstruction
...truction patients and found that using Botox after surgery significantly decreased the pain and discomfort they experienced." The study examined women who had mastectomies, followed by breast reconstruction with tissue expanders. The tissue expanders, balloon like devices, were placed beneath the pectora...Modifications to body contouring techniques for post-bariatric patients
PHILADELPHIA Many post-bariatric surgery patients experience an extreme loss in skin elasti... panel today discussing how post-bariatric plastic surgery differs from standard body contouring techniques at the ASPS Plastic Surgery 2004 conference in Phil...Barbed sutures, wrinkle fillers give patients more innovative, non-surgical options
...ents without time for a facelift or intimidated by surgery now have more minimally invasive options that prod...ssue fillers, three emerging trends in the plastic surgery industry, offer patients faster results without the downtime of surgery, according to a program held...Study lays down genetic basis for sinus disease and nasal polyps
... added Kim. "One of the most common treatments is surgery to remove swollen tissue and nasal polyps, but soon after we cut them out, the polyps usually keep growing back and symptoms return. This also happens after treatment stops with other medications, such as oral or nasal steroids." The National Healt...