Special scalpel reduces blood loss, facial nerve trauma in salivary surgery
...s that interfere with saliva flow, a rather tricky surgery to remove part or all of the gland is needed. Surg...f patients: 41 patients who underwent conventional surgery and 44 who underwent harmonic scalpel parotidectomy for benign or malignant disease and required sup...Hospital outcomes for women improve, but some hospitals fall far behind: Healthgrades study
... for women undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) was 46.44 percent lower, on average, at the nation's best-performing hospitals, compared with the poorest-performing hospitals. "Heart disease and stroke are the first and third leading causes of death among women � killing nearly one out of ...Polls finds many Americans believe cancer myths
...y finds up to half of Americans mistakenly believe surgery can spread cancer, and more than one in four thinks a cure for cancer already exists but is being held back by a profit-driven industry. Results of the survey are published in the August 1, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/can...Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies
...that favored patients most likely to survive their surgery over those most likely to die. In this system, the patients getting a liver transplant were often the most likely to benefit from it, but not always in greatest medical need of surgery. Due to public pressure, the allocation system was revised to p...Israeli critical care specialists advise on how to deal with victims of terrorist attacks
... the emergency department through to radiology and surgery a concept they call 'forward deployment'. They also advise the set up of a team of senior staff from all departments, who have ultimate responsibility during the whole emergency operation what they call the 'chain of command'. A senior surgeon dire...Functional MRI enables noninvasive evaluation of epilepsy patients
...MRI findings helped five patients avoid additional surgery and altered the extent of surgery in four others. A seizure is an outward sign of a malfunction in the electrical activity of the bra...Children's Hospital Boston hosts live Webcast
...c surgeon at Children's and associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School will perform the surgery. Alan Retik, MD, chief of surgery and urology at Children's, will moderate the event to explain critical portions of the surgery and a...Measures can help save frontal sinuses
...e general recommendation is to avoid frontal sinus surgery as much as possible," he says, citing potential ha...to medical therapy, miserable patients may opt for surgery that effectively obliterates their frontal sinuses. Surgeons crack open the skull, open the frontal ...Weight-loss surgery produces unexpected drop in heart disease risk, Stanford researchers find
...es of heart disease risk shows that gastric bypass surgery reduces the risk of heart disease even more than p...chers say the finding underscores the value of the surgery for extremely overweight people, whose obesity puts them in danger of heart attack, stroke and other...Johns Hopkins scientists uncover clues to 'disappearing' precancers
...ade, precancerous cervical lesions before standard surgery to remove the abnormal tissue. Some of the lesion...about 28 percent -- regressed by themselves before surgery within a time period considered within the bounds of care standards. But among patients whose pre-c...Catchers mitts don't provide enough protection
...aid L. Andrew Koman, M.D., professor of orthopedic surgery at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and a co-researcher. "We found a greater incidence of hand symptoms in catchers than in other players, despite the fact that 89 percent of them used additional protective padding." Catchers may receive 15...Canadian researchers call for more angiograms
...benefit from therapeutic treatment, such as bypass surgery and angioplasty. "We're not doing enough to test p...eligible to receive potentially life-saving bypass surgery or angioplasty. However, Graham noted, it is important to ensure that every patient who receives an ...Treatments for prostate cancer may affect employment
...s. Indeed, the study found that men who underwent surgery were more likely to be among the unemployed 6 months after the diagnosis than men receiving other treatments, whereas those who elected hormone therapy were more likely to remain working, although the reasons for this difference were not examined....Dr. Kountakis edits first textbook on the frontal sinus
.... "Once there is a problem in the frontal sinus or surgery is necessary, it's just a much more difficult area to handle in general," says Dr. Kountakis, who authored a chapter for the book on an endoscopic approach to relieving chronically inflamed frontal sinuses. Co-editors are Dr. Brent A. Senior, associa...Australia to develop world leading internet cancer trials technology
...ved use of established agents including radiation, surgery and drugs," he said....Availability of vascular surgeons impacts amputation rate
...igher numbers of vascular surgeons had more bypass surgery performed and lower amputation rates," said princi...ometimes amputations can be avoided through bypass surgery in the lower extremities that improves blood circulation in the legs and feet; this procedure must b...Costs of coronary artery bypass graft surgery
...e in-hospital cost of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) in the U.S. is 82.5 percent higher in the U...er than in Canada." "Coronary artery bypass graft surgery requires substantial resources in Canada and the United States," the authors conclude. "However, pat...SCAI news: Drug-eluting stents prove mettle in heart attack patients
...for patients who have coronary artery bypass graft surgery and later have a heart attack... See the text belo...for patients who have coronary artery bypass graft surgery and later have a heart attack caused by blockage of the transplanted vein. Even after receiving the ...Breast-conserving surgery underused in Asian American and Pacific Island women
...road, are less likely to receive breast-conserving surgery for early-stage breast cancer than non-Hispanic wh...al Medicine. "Differences in use of breast-saving surgery among foreign-born Asian American and Pacific Island women and non-Hispanic white women have persist...Laparoscopic surgery associated with reduced inflammatory response
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