Sentences with phrase «first surgery using»

In Beijing, doctors have performed the world's first surgery using a 3D printed vertebra.

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At NYU Langone Medical Center, a team is using 3D printing technology to help plan and execute «Jaw - in - a-day» surgery that was the first of its kind in the United States.

Use the AbdoMend Support Binder the very first time and every time you get out of bed, or roll to your side, for at least 1 — 3 weeks post surgery.

When the baby remains in a posterior position (5.5 % of labors), the mother is more likely to experience a longer than average labor (both first and second stages); the use of synthetic oxytocin to augment (speed up) labor; epidural for pain relief and a cesarean surgery.

«As prescription opioid use is under national scrutiny and because surgery has been identified as an avenue for addiction, it is important to recognize effective alternatives to standard pharmacological therapy, which remains the first option for treatment,» the authors write.

A team led by Francesco Maisano, co-director of the University Heart Center at the University Hospital Zurich (UHZ) and professor for Heart Surgery at the University of Zurich, made up of heart surgeons and cardiologists used new catheter technology to repair a leaky tricuspid valve for the very first time.

Professor Francesco Maisano, MD, Director of the Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery at UHZ and full professor at the University of Zurich, was responsible for the first use of the Cardioband within Switzerland to repair a mitral valve.

It is the world's first randomized control trial for breast cancer surgery that compares the use of ultrasound - guided paravertebral blocks — a local anesthetic freezing that blocks breast nerves — to general anesthetic.

They first used ultrasound in surgery, where it turned out sound waves could heat and destroy tissue, making them helpful for everything from treating ulcers to performing craniotomies.

Use of pain medications continued to increase during the last quarter before THA — and then increased dramatically in the first quarter after surgery.

Varban and his colleagues studied first - year surgery results using detailed data from the medical charts of 27,320 Michigan residents who had some form of bariatric surgery over a 10 - year period ending in mid-2015.

The study, «Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Manage Pain and Opioid Use after Major Surgery: Preliminary Outcomes from the Toronto General Hospital Transitional Pain Service,» is published in the Canadian Journal of Pain, by first author Muhammad Azam, Ph.D. candidate at York University and senior authors Dr. Joel Katz, Affiliate Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI) and Dr. Hance Clarke, Director of the Transitional Pain Service at TGH, UHN and Clinical Researcher, TGHRI.

Although a few surgeons have performed closed - chest bypasses using a heart - lung machine, and others have performed open - heart surgery without a heart - lung machine, Boyd was the first to put the whole package together, using the Zeus system.

Using data and follow - up from the first and largest studies of TAVR safety, the research team found that the biologic valves used in a TAVR procedure, as well as those used in open heart surgery, continue to perform well up to five years after implantation.

«This was her only hope for a transplant,» said Dr. Enrico Benedetti, professor and head of surgery at the University of Illinois Hospital, who believes this is the first time that the drug has been used in a patient with a persistently highly positive crossmatch.

«We used a mouse model of the KPro to, first of all, identify the inflammatory factors that cause damage to the eye, and then we also quantified the amount of nerve cell death in the back of the eye that mediates the optic neuropathy, and, lastly, we looked at blocking these factors with antibodies,» said Reza Dana, M.D., M.Sc., MPH, Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and the Claes H. Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.

But a much cited study, published in 1984 in the journal Science by environmental psychologist Roger Ulrich, now at Texas A&M University, was the first to use the standards of modern medical research — strict experimental controls and quantified health outcomes — to demonstrate that gazing at a garden can sometimes speed healing from surgery, infections and other ailments.

A combination of surgery and chemotherapy is used to treat the disease, but the sequence of those therapies has been at issue for lack of clear indication of which should be used first.

The other groups were either given no surgery or «sham» surgery so they could be used as control groups for comparison to the first.

Current, standard VTE prevention techniques include the use of an elastic stocking and / or other external compression device upon admittance to the hospital, patient movement and rehabilitation beginning the first day after surgery and continuing for several months, and anticoagulant therapy (blood thinning medications) starting the night before surgery and continuing after the patient is discharged.

An experimental protocol surgery using gene therapy to treat Alzheimer's disease is performed for the first time in the nation.

New York, NY (Scicasts)- NYU Langone Medical Center completed its first surgery this month using a new near - infrared fluorescence imaging guided system available on the da Vinci Si Surgical System, the most advanced...

The first surgery was successfully performed in September 2014 using retinal tissue Dr. Takahashi created from the patient's own iPS cells.

In a study involving 12 patients with bladder cancer, who also underwent prostate surgery as part of their treatment, she identified the ICOS molecule as the first immunologic marker identified in both tumor tissues and the systemic circulation that can be used as a biomarker for monitoring of anti-CTLA-4 treated patients as a possible marker of therapeutic activity.

Regarded as the father of reconstructive valve surgery, Carpentier developed the world's first artificial valve used in clinical practice.

Outside of the U.S., antithyroid drug therapy is more likely to be a practitioner's first choice for treatment, and surgery is more widely used, especially for children and women of childbearing age.

Almost everyone has used tweezers to take out a deep splinter (minor surgery), bandage an abrasion (emergency first aid) or in some instances even save a life by learning CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation).

They offer, «the first clinically - proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes without the use of medications or surgery.»

I did not start developing these noncancerous tumors until after I had my first child, and now that I am still having complications (caused from the size and regrowth of these fibroids even after their removal from surgery) more so than before can pueraria mirifica (the estro balance brand with d - indolylmethane) be used to treat (etc. reduce the size, pain, and regrowth of uterine fibroid tumors)?

My recommendation is to always try CPAP first and then use surgery as a last resort.

A teenage girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) has her first period in a room full of clueless males (There is one laugh when her date, played by Jimmy Bennett, calls 9 -1-1 and asks why the operator is laughing), and Halle Berry and Stephen Merchant use a game of Truth or Dare to liven up a blind date (The first two dares, which use the surroundings of a restaurant, are solid, but then it quickly jumps into the absurdity of tattoos and plastic surgery).

Unfortunately, the large majority of the cash went toward Tim and Eric living a lifestyle of Hollywood excess, complete with plastic surgeries, stylists, an expensive life coach (Zach Galifianakis) who has magical powers for no reason except that there's no reason for him to have magical powers, and piercings (The movie gives us a long look in close and medium shots of Eric getting a genital piercing (using, we assume and hope, a prosthetic), which is the first of a few reasons why the MPAA's decision to give this an R rating is a bigger point of offense than anything in the movie, especially considering the ratings board's tendency to overreact to naughty words).

The first was the laser 50 years ago; they're ubiquitous - laser surgery, laser manufacturing... you go to the checkout and your item is scanned using a laser.

These archaic medical training procedures are carried out despite the existence of sophisticated humane alternatives, such as TraumaMan System ®, a life - like mannequin used to practice first - aid and surgery.

If you qualify, this is the lowest - cost option for spay / neuter surgery for your pet and we suggest you use this service as your first choice.

With other types of cancers (many sarcomas, carcinomas, etc.) surgery is the first line of therapy and chemotherapy may be used if after surgery the disease is still present microscopically at the surgical site or the cancer is determined to be at high risk for spread (e.g. osteosarcoma).

A: Most pets begin using their operated leg on the day after surgery and are using the leg well within the first couple weeks.

As the first veterinary hospital in New Castle County to use laser surgery, we are proud to know we are on the cutting edge of animal health.

Declawing is a euphemism for the devastatingly painful surgery of paw tip amputation (amputation of the first joints) and that often paw amputation results in lifelong behavioral problems such as biting, hiding and urinating and defecating out - of - box because use of the paws to cover litter becomes forever associated with excruciating pain.

February 16, 2018 - Thanks to a connection between Purdue Veterinary Medicine's Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) and an orthopedic surgeon at Logansport Memorial Hospital in Logansport, Ind., third - year Purdue veterinary students now have more opportunities to learn first - hand about using electrosurgical equipment in surgery.

The first laser was developed in, and its use in human surgery became widespread in the late 1980's.

It is important to restrict your dog's active play and use of stairs for the first couple months until recheck x-rays can confirm the surgery site has healed properly.

Friday, February 16th, 2018 - Thanks to a connection between Purdue Veterinary Medicine's Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) and an orthopedic surgeon at Logansport Memorial Hospital in Logansport, Ind., third - year Purdue veterinary students now have more opportunities to learn first - hand about using electrosurgical equipment in surgery.

Veterinarian's try medications first, and then use surgery to improve the way joints are aligned or to eliminate any bone - on - bone contact.

He or she will have weighed the chance of a successful outcome using first diet and then drugs before reaching the conclusion that surgery is a necessity.

As the first veterinary hospital in New Castle County to use laser surgery, we take pride in knowing we are on the cutting edge of animal health.

When I started using positive psychology interventions I was surprised at how many situations you can apply them in — my first experience of surgery was an example of applying positive psychology in extraordinary circumstances.