Real-time MRI helps doctors assess beating heart in fetus
... help the physician and parents better prepare for surgery on the infant after birth. This technology may also be useful in determining how the heart becomes malformed in the mother's womb." Although further studies will be necessary to build on his team's preliminary results, Dr. Fogel suggests that fetal c...National funding goes to Johns Hopkins to advance research on stem cell therapies for heart attack
...ine and its Heart Institute. "The era of cardiac surgery was pioneered at Hopkins with the 'blue-baby' operation in the 1940s, and now we have the honor of continuing in this tradition by harnessing the next generation of therapies based on stem cells," he adds. More than 30 Hopkins faculty and staff, inc...Evidence of a new hereditary joint disorder
...shorter than his right. At age 16, he underwent a surgery to separate the hip and insert a plate. Eventually, in his 40s, he had his hip replaced completely. Over the years, MM1 was misdiagnosed with various disorders, including Osgood-Schlatter disease, Legg-Calv-Perthes disease, and spondylo-epiphyseal ...Obesity, history of weight gain could help predict prostate cancer progression
...M. D. Anderson prostate cancer patients treated by surgery (prostatectomy). They followed the progress of the patients for an average of 4 1/2 years, checking whether the men entered "biochemical failure" or a rising prostate specific antigen (PSA) level, which can indicate the cancer is advancing. "After su...Annual report to the nation finds cancer death rates still on the decline
...tage) breast cancer who received breast-conserving surgery with radiation treatment increased substantially d...d evidence-based guidelines that breast-conserving surgery followed by radiation therapy may be preferable to mastectomy because it provides similar survival b...Pulmonary artery catheter use neutral for patient outcomes
... with advanced heart failure, those awaiting major surgery or those who were admitted to ICUs for a spectrum of serious illnesses. Despite more than 30 years of physician experience with PAC, there is still much debate about the device's utility and where it belongs in the care of patients. According to the ...Use of pulmonary artery catheterization does not show benefit for severe heart failure patients
...ecompensated heart failure, or patients undergoing surgery until or unless effective therapies can be found that improve outcomes when coupled with this diagnostic tool," the authors conclude. (JAMA.2005; 294:1664-1670. Available pre-embargo to the media at www.jamamedia.org ) Editor's Note: This meta-anal...US cancer mortality continues decline but incidence rises slightly for women
...e use of radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery for women with early-stage breast cancer--may not be fully implemented in the community treatment setting. The authors also found some evidence of possible disparities in the patterns of treatment based on patient age at diagnosis, race, and type of ...Large sinus tumors can be removed endoscopically, study finds
...takis says. "Large tumors require big, destructive surgery to be removed and, even when you do that, you cannot reassure the patient that the tumor will not come back. So you create huge morbidity. With the endoscopic approach, I also cannot guarantee that with the first procedure I am going to cure the pati...Penn surgeons use completely robotic surgery to treat prostate cancer
... of advantages after surgery. Because laparoscopic surgery is minimally invasive and no large incisions are involved, robotic-assisted surgery provides numerous benefits for prostate cancer patients, including: less pain and scarring, diminis...Consensus panel calls for expanded role of needle biopsies, MRI and less invasive procedures
...el chair Melvin J. Silverstein, M.D., professor of surgery and Henrietta C. Lee Chair in Breast Cancer Resear...ients a second surgery. A biopsy is for diagnosis, surgery is for treatment." The panel called the less invasive sentinel lymph node biopsy the "preferred meth...Day surgery rates rising, but there is still room for improvement
...shed by Dr Foster in this week's BMJ show that day surgery rates continue to rise, yet there is still conside...cent Healthcare Commission report showing that day surgery units are not being used to their maximum capacity. The NHS Plan predicts that 75% of all elective ...Trauma victims' survival may depend on which trauma center treats them
...el II center. These requirements include a general surgery residency program, research in trauma, a cardiac surgery program and microvascular and replantation surgery. For 24 hours a day, the center must have a dedic...Altering time of breast biopsy may improve mastectomy reconstruction process
... takes women facing a mastectomy from diagnosis to surgery to reconstruction can improve the process and help...edure. The diagnosis is confirmed a few days after surgery by a more detailed study called a permanent section. "If the pathologist does not see tumor in the l...Old mystery solved, revealing origin of regulatory T cells that 'police' and protect the body
...dy, using human thymus tissue taken during cardiac surgery in children - tissue that otherwise would have been discarded " the researchers isolated different components of thymic cells, and reconstituted them in test tubes. They then conducted numerous experiments over several years, looking at different sta...Radical surgery best option for most ovarian cancer patients with cancer in diaphragm
...nic Cancer Center researchers have determined that surgery to remove metastatic disease from the diaphragm, i... often given for not proceeding with diaphragmatic surgery in advanced ovarian cancer patients. This study provided strong evidence of survival benefit. The ...October 17 news briefing highlights groundbreaking cancer studies at ASTRO Annual Meeting
...eceiving radiation therapy and chemotherapy before surgery to shrink the tumor so it can be more easily remov...iation therapy combined with hormone therapy after surgery is more effective in keeping the cancer from returning. Presented by Richard Poetter, M.D. Radiat...Innovative gel reduces post-operative pain
...y improve wound healing following endoscopic sinus surgery according to researchers at Rush University Medica...ed 16 patients who received platelet gel following surgery with a control group who received traditional packing material. The preliminary results found no adv...Breast conserving treatment an option for women with implants
Breast conserving surgery followed by radiation therapy is a good option for...ast cancer are able to undergo breast conservation surgery to keep their breast after treatment. Typically, this means that they first have surgery to remove t...Fox Chase study: Radiation then tamoxifen after lumpectomy for early-stage breast cancer pts
...I/II breast cancer who underwent breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy and received adjuvant tamoxi...ical trial or delay in the time of radiation after surgery or chemotherapy." Other authors of the study include radiation oncologist Gary Freeman, M.D., and b...