UCI eye doctors invent laser-assisted cornea-transplant surgery
...ser-surgery technique to perform cornea-transplant surgery that can replace the use of traditional handheld s...inert, director of cornea, refractive and cataract surgery in UCI Health Sciences. Cornea transplants are performed on the "front window" of the eye, using liv...Scalpel-free surgery could reduce risk of HIV and hepatitis exposure for health care workers
...aid Martin A. Makary, M.D., assistant professor of surgery and public health at Johns Hopkins and lead author...th traditional precautions and early education for surgery trainees are the most practical ways to reduce the risk of infection to health care workers," said M...Reconstruction of the lower jaw with a fibula autotrasplant
... be led; in fact, many scientific articles discard surgery as normally the ailment stabilises on the growth coming to an end. Infrequent case The child treated at the University Hospital showed an infrequent case of cherubism. An explosive growth of one or more of the granulomas caused the tumour to reach ...Arm lift surgery generally safe, minor risks need to be considered, Mayo Clinic finds
... Minn. -- Mayo Clinic plastic surgeons report that surgery to remove excess skin and fat in the upper arm, kn...of complications found to arise following arm lift surgery included fluid collections under the skin (10 percent), poor scarring (10 percent), skin infection (...Digestive Disease Week 2005 spotlights breakthrough research in digestive health
...y, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal (GI) surgery during Digestive Disease Week 2005 (DDW), May 14-1...ive health The effect of diet, weight and obesity surgery on the GI tract Novel targeted therapies for Crohn's and other inflammatory bowel diseases Technol...Hyperhidrosis and its treatment becoming better understood
...terested in studying the long-term effects of this surgery on the skin and blood vessels of the arm. So far, we have found essentially no adverse consequence in the patients' warm and dry hands." Dr. Eisenach says Mayo researchers continue to gain insight into how this condition affects the body, before and ...Spinoff company receives $2.5 million NIH grant to build prototype scanner
...ns may enable surgeons to instantly confirm that a surgery has succeeded. As it stands, many patients must return for a second surgery when pathology slides reveal that the first procedure missed some of the tumor. Koning's latest NIH ...Mayo Clinic study determines surgery is best remedy for hammer hand
...tients treated with medication or sympathectomy -- surgery to interrupt the nerve pathway -- showed no change in symptoms, seven were worse and five showed symptom improvement. Two types of excision operations were used for the remaining 60 patients studied. Four received excision of the damaged portion of...Black children more likely to die from traumatic injury than white children
... lead author and a clinical associate professor of surgery at Ohio State University . "As a group, black children tend to have more serious injuries." Indeed, black children are also two to three times more likely to be admitted to the hospital because of a traumatic injury. However, when black and white chi...Novel stem cell trial in heart failure patients to begin
... the trial is Robert L. Kormos, M.D., professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, director of UPMC's Artificial Heart Program and medical director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine....Keyhole surgery set to become the new gold standard for colon cancer treatment
Keyhole surgery for colon cancer is as effective as open surgery in the short term, concludes a randomised trial published in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Treat...Substantial 15-year survival gains from standard breast cancer treatments
...ntries, state the authors. In early breast cancer, surgery (or surgery and radiotherapy) can appear to remove all traces of the disease, but undetected deposits of cancer ...PENN researchers use robotic surgery
... For patients with cancer of the mouth and throat, surgery is a frequent course of treatment, often leading t...adiation therapy, and chemotherapy. In many cases, surgery offers the greatest chance of cure. Conventional cancer surgery can consist of an almost ear-to-ear ...Surgery to treat vocal-cord spasms shows high success rate
...e first large, long-term study of patients who had surgery to control vocal-cord spasms showed excellent resu...nesh Chhetri, assistant professor of head and neck surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, who presented the findings. "When spasmodic dysphon...Molecular testing in patients with rare cancer predicts response to Gleevec
... rapidly fatal because chemotherapy, radiation and surgery are ineffective in advanced cases. Gleevec works by inhibiting a protein called KIT, which is abnormally expressed in GIST and fuels tumor growth by signaling cancer cells to keep growing. The majority of GIST patients have dramatic clinical impr...Presence of high-risk prostate cancer can be predicted without a biopsy, new study says
... with a prostate biopsy and can include radiation, surgery and chemotherapy. "This is the prostate cancer ...ogic oncology at the PVAMC, associate professor of surgery (urology) in the OHSU School of Medicine, and member of the OHSU Cancer Institute. An outpatient ...Radioactive isotope is effective against neuroblastoma
...often are resistant to conventional treatment with surgery and chemotherapy. The MIBG treatment makes use of the fact that a compound called meta-iodobenzylguanidine selectively concentrates in neuroblastoma tumor cells. When a radioactive isotope of iodine, iodine-131, is attached to MIBG, the MIBG travels ...Failed lung cancer drug could help shrink breast tumors
...ast cancer a drug called gefitinib (Iressa) before surgery could reduce the size of their tumours, suggests a randomised trial published online today (Tuesday May 17, 2005) by THE LANCET ONCOLOGY. Gefitinib has been tested in clinical trials as a treatment for lung cancer but did not help patients live longe...New preoperative chemotherapy and radiation regimen yields encouraging results for sarcoma
...hemotherapy and a short course of radiation before surgery may be beneficial. About 41 percent of study parti...after surgery. "Giving radiation treatments before surgery has a greater risk of wound healing complications, but probably a lower risk of long-term complicati...New methods offer alternatives for patients undergoing obesity surgery
...ty patients who opt to have some form of bariatric surgery have a greater chance of long-term survival than t...tudy. "Since the abdominal wall is never cut, the surgery and recovery time is much faster. We hope to use this technology in the future to help bring promis...