Sentences with phrase «first knee replacement surgery»

3.9.11 Dr. Carlos Hodges to perform first knee replacement surgery in the area on service dog.

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Interim coach, Bernie Bickerstaff, who has won his first 2 games with the Lakers, will be the coach until D'Antoni is back from a November replacement knee surgery.

Although the risk of life - threatening complications from knee replacement surgery is very small, people who undergo total knee replacement are four times more likely to die in the first month after surgery compared to those who have partial knee replacement, and 15 per cent more likely to die in the first eight years.

«To put the risks in perspective, if 100 patients had a partial knee rather than a total knee replacement there would be one fewer death and three more re-operations in the first four years after surgery.»

But this is the first study to show that it can help prevent repeat surgery in women who have undergone hip / knee replacement, say the authors.

Risk of heart attack was significantly higher during the first postoperative month in those who had knee replacement surgery compared to those in the non-surgical group, and gradually declined over time.

«Our findings provide the first general population - based evidence that osteoarthritis patients who have total knee or total hip replacement surgery are at increased risk of heart attack in the immediate postoperative period,» concludes Dr. Zhang.

Cyrano, a cancer - surviving 10 - year - old cat, is back home in Upperville, Va. following the success of a total knee replacement surgery — the first - of - its - kind for a feline — at North Carolina State University's Randall B. Terry, Jr..