Sentences with phrase «if more surgery»

Vets will evaluate Obie to determine if more surgery is needed after he loses the last five pounds, a goal Vanatta hopes will be achieved late this summer.

Not exact matches

With more solid information showing that machines can perform surgeries just as well as human doctors, if not better, new competitors may finally be spurred into the market — a fact The Washington Post seems to have missed.

If the test says «yes,» the treatment would continue on course; but if the answer is «no,» then a change in therapeutic approach (either different drugs or surgery) might be more appropriate,» said Dr. BeaIf the test says «yes,» the treatment would continue on course; but if the answer is «no,» then a change in therapeutic approach (either different drugs or surgery) might be more appropriate,» said Dr. Beaif the answer is «no,» then a change in therapeutic approach (either different drugs or surgery) might be more appropriate,» said Dr. Bear.

If minor foot surgery would make it easier and more comfortable for one of them to get around and there were no real obstacles, why not do it?

It is a little more pricey if you go with the acid bath, what with the reconstructive facial surgery and so forth.

I've had my foot surgery (a tricorrectional osteotomy if you want to know more) and I'm in the midst of convalescing.

With a two - week international break following that, it gives him more time to recover, but if Man Utd and the 24 - year - old go down the surgery route, then he could be looking at a much lengthier spell out.

No official rehabilitation schedule or estimates for a recovery time have been released by either club or country, but if surgery is required then rehabilitation could take six months or more.

Then the rumor mongers claimed Poldi had an ankle injury and his foot would fall off if he played too much and required immediate surgery in the summer — more made up stuff.

Bernardeschi will have more tests in 20 days, at which point they'll tell us if he needs surgery or not.

If you are considering breast implants or any other type of surgery, do wait until you are sure that you don't want more kids.

While not optimal (if you desire a home birth) a hospital one can be made less like a surgery and more like a natural activity with proper planning.

If you have questions or want to learn more about breastfeeding after surgery, talk to a certified lactation consultant or health care professional who is trained in breastfeeding and lactation.

So, the more years that have passed since the surgery, the better chances you have for necessary nerve response, even if important nerves were severed.

It costs # 73 more if you take into account future surgery for prolapse and incontinence.

If you gave birth via cesarean surgery, occasionally the epidural catheter will stay in for a few more hours to help provide you with pain relief after the surgery.

If you've decided you don't want to have any more children after this pregnancy and you opt for tubal ligation, you may have the surgery while you're in the hospital for your delivery.

So if I have more than a one in three chance of having abdominal surgery to have a baby, it's hard to say that it's safer to go there than to stay in my home where I have, maybe, a five percent chance of having abdominal surgery.

If a baby's symptoms do not improve over time, invasive tests are often recommended, more drugs may be added, and occasionally surgery is suggested.

According to Blumenfeld, other babies who need it include babies born via C - section, babies born with forceps or vacuum assistance, babies who had an internal fetal scalp monitor, babies born with any visible bruising or bleeding, babies who are being circumcised or have other upcoming surgeries, if you pushed for more than four hours, and if there is any family history of blood clotting disorders.

It does not matter if the surgery was planned or spontaneous, and the babies affected are often more likely to have severe asthma that may require hospitalization, the use of an inhaler by the age of 5, and sometimes even resulting in death.

I don't know if breast augmentation surgery is becoming more popular, or maybe just because I am getting older and so are my peers so it is more common in my age group... when you are heading towards forty years and you have had two children that you have breast...

If an inexperienced person does the surgery, the end results could be under the expectations of the patient costing more time and money.

If having more than one person in the room with you during surgery is important, discuss it with your doctor as soon as possible.

If you have a more serious condition such as endometriosis, cysts or polycystic ovary syndrome, there are still natural methods you can try before resorting to surgery, drugs or other invasive treatments.

Howard recommends pumping if you want to get more rest after surgery and would rather your baby have a bottle than breastfeed.

If the surgery was recent, meaning she had it within the last five years, lactations problems are more likely.

Great strides have been made to tackle MRSA and antimicrobial resistance, but there is still more to do if surgery as we know it today is to become safer.

If other surgeons in other settings with other patient populations have similar results with the device, we can apply to the FDA for a 510 (k) clearance and begin to bring the product into more widespread use,» said Michael Harrison, MD, FACS, professor emeritus of surgery at UCSF.

But well - equipped hospitals are more prepared than a surgery center if medical complications happen.

Kochevar welcomes new technology — even if it requires more surgery — that will enable him to move better.

The finding suggests patients might recover from injury more quickly if they have surgery during the right time of day.

But even if Coley had been more meticulous, he was still battling a medical establishment that firmly believed any cancer cure that didn't require surgery meant the «disease» was misdiagnosed as cancer.

Post-surgical matching is even harder for obvious reasons, says Kevin Bowyer, a computer scientist at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, whose team developed the new system: «If someone has plastic surgery, they're trying to change the appearance of one or more parts of their face.»

If a patient is able to make more VEGF, «that would indicate we could treat more conservatively with medicines,» whereas those who made little VEGF might be better candidates for bypass surgery, he says.

If we find calcium in your arteries, you're more likely to suffer a major adverse event, such as a heart attack or death, or you may require a stent or bypass surgery.»

«If these findings are confirmed in larger studies, they hold significant implications for new treatment targets and open the door for more questions such as: should these patients be treated more aggressively with medications, cognitive rehabilitation, or even surgery to open up the artery,» said Lal.

The next step was to determine if more noxious drugs were likely to increase the pain following surgery.

If it takes more than five thousandths of a second for the signal to travel to a robot, «it begins to feel like you're working in molasses,» says Joel Jensen, a program manager at sri International, a nonprofit institute that has done groundbreaking work in remote surgery.

But even if clinicians might not yet have more delicate tools to dip patients into surgery - ready unconsciousness, Alkire notes, «understanding how it works puts you in a position to do better anesthetics eventually — if not with the agents you have right now.»

«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.»

If the surgery is assumed to have essentially a one - time risk for infection, after five years of extrapolation, contact lens wearers would show 11 more cases per 10,000 than those with surgery.

Whatever your take on the healing power of prayer, you have to scratch your head over this: In 1999 a large, randomized controlled trial «proved» that heart surgery patients are more likely to survive if someone they have never met secretly prays for them — and then, seven years later, another randomized trial found that secret prayer very slightly raises the odds that a patient will suffer complications.

If we validate this study in similar, but larger groups of patients, we can develop a test based for CFS breaks; the results would allow us to place patients in one of two categories: those whose tumors do not have CFS breaks and who would likely do well with local treatment alone (e.g. radiotherapy or surgery); and, those patients whose tumors do have CFS breaks and would need a more complex treatment protocol, in addition to RT or surgery, to combat distant spread.»

«If we treat those with high eosinophil levels differently — earlier, more intensively, or with different medicines — we may be to help them avoid surgery.»

If the disease starts in the small intestine, it becomes more difficult to manage and often leads to complications and surgeries.

And while life expectancy has increased with better therapies, surgeries, and more aggressive treatment of identified risk factors, depression has come under increasing scrutiny as a risk factor that could make a difference, if properly treated.

If a biopsy reveals that the cancer has spread to lymph nodes, treatments may include more extensive surgery, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, or clinical trial participation.

Radiation Therapy Prolongs Life in Men with Recurrent Prostate Cancer Men whose tumors recur after prostate cancer surgery are three times more likely to survive their disease long term if they undergo radiotherapy within two years of the recurrence.

«If we can reprogram this epigenetic mechanism, then the therapy might work for more patients,» says Zou, Charles B. de Nancrede Professor of Surgery, Immunology and Biology at the University of Michigan Medical School.