Sentences with phrase «children undergo surgery»

Each year, thousands of children undergo surgery for congenital heart defects.

Sick children undergoing surgery in Waikato Hospital were comforted today with the arrival of hundreds of teddy bears to the pediatric wards.

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The little girl has a heart condition and was immediately taken away to the local Children's Hospital and has already underwent her first heart surgery this last Monday.

Once she is sure she's not going to have any more children, she can undergo cosmetic surgery to even out the size of her girls.

Late show host Jimmy Kimmel choked back tears last night as he held his son Billy, who recently underwent heart surgery, and urged Congress not to slash CHIP, a health insurance program for children.

Blood shortages can adversely affect babies who struggle to live in NICUs, children and adults who are undergoing surgery, car accident victims, and sickle cell suffers in crisis.

To study the role of sweet taste receptors, Cohen and lead study author Robert J. Lee, PhD, a post doctoral researcher in his lab, partnered with colleagues from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Monell Chemical Senses Center to analyze cultures and tissue samples from the upper respiratory tract of patients who were undergoing sinonasal surgery for a variety of conditions.

For years, doctors had found frustratingly poor results in children who had undergone surgery late in childhood.

«We knew there were nutritional difficulties in teens who had undergone bariatric surgery, but everyone thought it was primarily the surgery that caused these problems since gastric bypass excludes the portion of the small intestine where many nutrients, especially iron, are most absorbed,» says Stavra Xanthakos, MD, medical director the Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens at Cincinnati Children's and a co-author of the study.

In addition, the vast majority of children who undergo fetal surgery are born prematurely and thus may be subject to higher rates of blindness, cerebral palsy, and brain hemorrhage.

They performed a retrospective study of 337 children, mostly infants, who underwent surgery at CHOP for conotruncal defects from 2006 to 2013.

«For the majority of kids undergoing surgery, the results overall are reassuring,» says lead author David Warner, M.D., a pediatric anesthesiologist at Mayo Clinic Children's Center.

All children with HLHS will have to undergo at least three surgeries within the first three years of life to survive, but many die in the first few months of life.

Low - dose aspirin is often used to help prevent heart attacks, but some children even undergo bypass surgery or angioplasty (dilation of the arteries) to slow the disease.

The study included 69 children with CP who underwent spinal fusion surgery for scoliosis between 2008 and 2011, identified from an international database.

Infections and autoimmune diseases are more common among people who have undergone heart surgery as children and had their thymus removed at the same time, which is often done to get access to the heart.

They subsequently identified that pediatric patients who require surgery for hip dysplasia, scoliosis and leg - length discrepancy are among those most likely to undergo imaging such as X-rays or CT scans, and therefore may be among those children who are most vulnerable to exposure risk.

Black children who undergo urologic surgery are more likely than white children to have postsurgical complications and hospital - acquired infections 30 days after the surgery.

One control group consisted of 2,276 people who also underwent heart surgery as a child but retained their thymus.

A main challenge to addressing SDB in children about to undergo surgery is the lack of awareness of the risks and parents who underestimate their child's condition.

Dr. Raney and colleagues outline strategies that pediatric orthopaedic surgeons can follow to minimize the impact of the opioid epidemic in children and teens undergoing surgery.

Ninety - six of the children were exposed to chemotherapy, 11 were exposed to radiotherapy, 13 were exposed to surgery, two were exposed to drug treatments and 14 had mothers who did not undergo treatment while pregnant.

This attitude and position expressed by Chervenak et al is outrageous and completely unacceptable, and violates many rulings by the US Supreme Court which found that adult persons may not be compelled even to donate blood to save the life of their child, let alone undergo surgery or any other intervention.

When we meet her, she is a child who has discovered her complete love of eating — a love that just might kill her, as she ages and comes to weigh more than 300 pounds and must undergo various surgeries related to her size.

It's stressful enough when your furry child has to undergo major surgery and recovery.

Throughout 1994, 12 children died while undergoing cardiac surgery at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre (WHSC).

Long - term alteration of the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal axis in children undergoing cardiac surgery in the first 6 months of life.

She has since undergone surgery at B.C. Children's Hospital to remove a tumour, but Paige still needs to receive high dose chemotherapy treatment for the next six to eight months.

Moore has brought four children to the United States for surgery, and even adopted a little girl who underwent cleft palate surgery.