Sentences with phrase «initial surgery»

But among those who are diagnosed, only 8 percent fewer are getting initial surgery or radiation treatments — even as data shows those with low - risk disease can substitute surveillance.

The best chance for cure is with initial surgery.

«These defects, which can occur after initial surgery for another defect, can increase the risk of complications and mortality in children with heart disease, so using imaging tools to quickly identify these defects can improve our care of these children,» she added.

The routine use of a molecular testing panel developed at UPMC greatly increases the likelihood of performing the correct initial surgery for patients with thyroid nodules and cancer, report researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), partner with UPMC CancerCenter.

The test, available at the UPMC / UPCI Multidisciplinary Thyroid Center and other diagnostic testing agencies, improved the chances of patients getting the correct initial surgery by 30 percent, according to the study published this month in the Annals of Surgery.

3 phases of excrutiating pain: initial surgery recovery, couple of days later scabs form, couple of days later scabs start separating off.

Interestingly, analysis of lymphocytes from breast cancer patients showed that signatures of NK cell activation predicted relapse - free survival post initial surgery.

«Patients who develop TR after MV repair for degenerative diseases are older, have chronic atrial fibrillation, more advanced functional class, and impaired left ventricular function at the time of the initial surgery.

The molecular testing panel now bypasses that initial surgery, allowing us to go right to fully removing the cancer with one initial surgery.

Around 19 per cent of women who undergo this procedure have gone on to have a second procedure as a result of complications following the initial surgery.

Forty - three (20 percent) women in the salpingotomy group were converted to salpingectomy during the initial surgery because of persistent tubal bleeding, the study said.

Jungebluth says that despite the complications, the patient did well for at least a year after his initial surgery.

(They say they were not involved in the care of that patient after the initial surgery in 2011.

A major clinical trial randomizing patients to either initial surgery followed by chemotherapy, or chemotherapy then surgery, revealed no significant difference in overall survival between the groups.

However, it is clear that nodal basin recurrence can occur years or even decades after initial surgery, [2] so patients who choose nodal observation are committed to long - term follow - up of uncertain value.

Importantly, the survival curves for these groups did not begin to diverge until year 2 or beyond after initial surgery, and continued to widen for the entire 10 - year period, which means preliminary results from the relatively small DeCOG - SLT study — with its 3 - year median follow - up [4]-- can not be relied upon to justify changing the standard of care away from CLND.

In 2015, another type of immunotherapy — oncolytic virus therapy — was approved for the local treatment of unresectable cutaneous, subcutaneous, and nodal lesions in patients with melanoma that has recurred after initial surgery.

Depending on cancer type, between 20 - 90 % of cancer patients present to the clinics without evidence of manifest metastasis; however, abundant literature indicates that these patients carry minimal residual disease (MRD) and are at considerable risk for relapse and metastasis after initial surgery.

Was only one of your cat's two thyroid glands removed during the initial surgery?

My application was successful so I joined Drs. Bill Betts and Dave DeYoung as the initial surgery faculty.

Estimates are given at the time of the initial surgery consult.

It is exasperating for pet owners and veterinarians alike to find others a few weeks or months after the initial surgery.

She needed 18 revision procedures after the initial surgery in order to remove the mesh.

Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center has maintained that none of McCann's injuries resulted from the negligence of its employees or his treatment following the initial surgery.

Following the initial surgery for a four - level fusion (from T - 10 to L - 2), our client underwent three months of rehabilitation to learn how to walk again, albeit with arm crutches.

The main dissenting opinion found the distinction advanced by the majority to be formalistic, since the plaintiff still contended that she was injured during the initial surgery.

The plaintiff claimed that the defendant negligently injured her bowel during the initial surgery, did not detect the injury, and failed to get the proper surgical consultation.