Sentences with phrase «of advanced surgery»

More recently, she has pursued continuing education into the areas of advanced surgery, dental therapies and backyard poultry medicine.

Using his expertise in veterinary medicine, Dr. Lindgren performs a variety of advanced surgeries and related procedures.

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«Paraplegics are regaining control of their bodies, PTSD victims are successfully recovering, doctors are using VR simulations to successfully prepare for advanced surgery, along with many other examples.

Haider: By bridging materials science, mechanical design, and advanced sterilization techniques to pre-attach spinal implants onto disposable delivery instruments, we've developed a technology that outperforms traditional systems in mechanical consistency and the risk of pathogen transmission, and that fundamentally changes the internal logistics of both hospitals and outpatient surgery centers.

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Policymakers and mobile phone companies have said the next generation of wireless signals needs to be much faster and far more responsive to allow advanced technologies like virtual surgery or controlling machines remotely.

In the nineteenth century great advances took place in medical care and hospital provision, associated with Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) and her reform of nursing, Louis Pasteur (1822 - 95) and his work in the development of germ theory, and Lord Lister's (1827 - 1912) advances in surgery.

For Woods, who was apparently as glued to his TV on Sunday as the rest of us, Mickelson's 43rd PGA Tour win, at the advanced age of 47, was an inspiration to the 42 - year - old who is playing his fourth tour event after returning from last April's spinal fusion surgery.

If you know about your surgery in advance, start pumping and saving milk up ahead of time.

Realize that a doctor's definition of elective is any surgery that is planned in advance rather than an emergency, even if it is absolutely necessary.

It may be that your baby can be treated within the womb or that they will need treatment or surgery after their birth, possibly immediately, so this will all be set up in advance of your due date.

A whole team of specialists was present at his birth because we knew in advance he would need back and brain surgery almost immediately.

Our comprehensive range of non-surgical cosmetic and laser treatments include anti-wrinkle treatments, all types of Dermal Fillers, Collagen Stimulation, Silhouette Soft, Facial Thread Lifting, non-surgical scar treatment, skin peels, laser thread veins, advanced laser for hair removal and laser skin rejuvenation as well as more traditional plastic and aesthetic surgery.

The increased survival rates are being attributed to early detection, greater use of specialist surgery, and advances in treatment and screening.

A task force created to figure out what to do with controversial statues and monuments on New York City property — described by the mayor as «symbols of hate» — has recommended only one statue be moved: a monument to J. Marion Sims, a 19th century doctor who developed advances in gynecological surgery by conducting operations on black slave women.

Among the statues and monuments that came under scrutiny was the statue of Christopher Columbus that stands above Columbus Circle; a plaque in lower Manhattan for Henri Philippe Petain, considered a Nazi collaborator; and a Central Park statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims, who operated on slave women to develop advances in gynecological surgery.

Steven Rosenberg, chief of surgery at NCI, riveted everyone's attention by recounting the varied success of treating patients with tumor - infiltrating lymphocytes and then took a few moments to address audience members about advancing their scientific careers.

Intravitreous injections of anti-VEGF agents may increase the risk of elevated intraocular pressure (IOP); however, the risk of developing moderate to advanced glaucoma requiring glaucoma surgery has been unclear.

«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.

Other UT Southwestern faculty members who contributed to this research are: Dr. Boning Gao, Assistant Professor with the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research and Pharmacology; Dr. Kimmo Hatanpaa, Associate Professor of Pathology; Dr. Kemp Kernstine, Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and holder of the Robert Tucker Hayes Foundation Distinguished Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery; Dr. Yang Xie, Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences and Bioinformatics; Dr. Hong Zhu, Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences and with the Simmons Cancer Center; Dr. Farjana Fattah, Assistant Professor with the Simmons Cancer Center and Pathology; Dr. Masaya Takahashi, Associate Professor with the Advanced Imaging Research and Radiology; Dr. Bipasha Mukherjee, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology; Dr. Sandeep Burma, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology; and Dr. Jonathan Dowell, Professor of Internal Medicine;

Advanced disease was associated with the highest number of complications: 23 percent of patients whose cancer had spread throughout the body had thyroid surgery specific complications, a number the researchers call «alarming.»

«The long - term vision is simple,» said Saif, who is also part of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the U. of I. «Could we make elementary structures and seed them with stem cells that would differentiate into smart structures to deliver drugs, perform minimally invasive surgery or target cancer?»

The multidisciplinary team behind the current study includes world - renowned researchers in the field of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering; Paolo Macchiarini, MD, PhD, Director of the Advanced Center for Regenerative Medicine and senior scientist at Karolinska Institutet; Doris Taylor, PhD, Regenerative Medicine Research Director at the Texas Heart Institute; and Mark Holterman, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, working in collaboration with a research team at the Kuban State Medical University in Russia.

«Dr. Gu's work represents an exciting and elegant technological advance in targeted therapeutics for cancer,» said Melina Kibbe, MD, professor and chair of the department of surgery at UNC.

Regardless of the advances in understanding CNS dysfunction, JFK today might still be subjected to surgery and / or large doses of opioid medications, although there is scant evidence that either would work, authors write.

Although it only worked 20 % of the time, base editing, also known as chemical surgery, could present a «significant technical advance,» The Guardian reports.

Chou and his colleagues have experience in prescribing a range of medication to calm tremors, and evaluating which patients might benefit from advanced brain surgery to implant a device that can calm the uncontrollable nerve impulses that cause tremor.

Neurosurgeon Mitchel Berger at U.C. San Francisco conducts hands - on «brain mapping» of language functions in advance of surgery to remove tumors.

«This research is an important advance in the potential expansion of fertility preservation options for young patients who may not be able to undergo hormone stimulation to induce ovulation before beginning chemotherapy,» says study author Jacqueline S. Jeruss, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of surgery and director of the Breast Care Center at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Surgery is not the panacea that patients frequently hope for, and the majority of pancreatic cancer patients aren't even eligible due to the advanced stage of the disease at presentation.

«One in five women with ovarian cancer does not undergo surgery, study reveals: Results show survival benefit of surgery for patients regardless of age or advanced disease, and point to barriers to cancer care delivery.»

More than 80 percent of women with advanced stage high - grade serous ovarian cancer experience relapses even after repeated surgeries and multiple rounds of chemotherapy, and this effective new approach to treat the disease could be a major step forward in preventing cancer from returning.

«What we are seeing is a new wave of advances in minimally invasive surgery for patients with brain cancer,» said Bob Carter, MD, PhD, professor and chief of Neurosurgery, UC San Diego School of Medicine.

So teams at Catholic University of Rome and Ohio's Cleveland Clinic followed nearly 200 advanced diabetics receiving medicine or weight - loss surgery.

While used mainly in craniofacial reconstruction so far, 3D planning and CAD / CAM techniques have the potential for advances in practically every area of plastic and reconstructive surgery, according to the review by Drs. Miles J. Pfaff and Derek Steinbacher of Yale University.

Other UT Southwestern researchers involved in the study were Dr. Ramzi Abdulrahman, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology; Dr. Arthur Sagalowsky, Professor of Urology and Surgery, co-leader of the Kidney Cancer Program, who holds The Dr. Paul Peters Chair in Urology in Memory of Rumsey and Louis Strickland; Dr. Ivan Pedrosa, Associate Professor of Radiology and the Advanced Imaging Research Center, co-leader of the Kidney Cancer Program, who holds the Jack Reynolds, M.D., Chair in Radiology; Dr. Hak Choy, Chair and Professor of Radiation Oncology who holds The Nancy B. & Jake L. Hamon Distinguished Chair in Therapeutic Oncology Research; and Dr. James Brugarolas, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Developmental Biology, leader of the Kidney Cancer Program, and Virginia Murchison Linthicum Endowed Scholar; and other researchers including Stephen Chun, Dr. Nathan Cannon, and Dr. Nathan Kim.

However, these are supplemented by the imagined direct transfer of needed «software» from a human mind, thanks to Robocop - like advances in brain surgery.

Surgeons gathered to focus on a quality improvement program to address a central issue in treating advanced ovarian cancer — how to optimize surgery to achieve complete removal of all visible tumor — also called optimal resection.

«Having a potential new way to keep melanoma at bay is a major advance for patients who live under the constant fear of recurrence after surgery.

For patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, the combination of chemotherapy and stereotactic ablative radiation (SABR) may be a promising treatment option, ultimately allowing them to undergo surgery that may not otherwise be an option, according to research presented today at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO's) 56th Annual Meeting.

In theory, all of these advances in sex drugs and genital surgery are tightly aimed attempts to satisfy our desires.

«The inflammatory molecule that we're targeting not only causes problems after an injury, but it's also responsible for a great deal of inflammation in advanced cases of osteoarthritis,» said Linda J. Sandell, PhD, the Mildred B. Simon Research Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and director of Washington University's Center for Musculoskeletal Research.

The Pavilion will provide a new home for the University of Chicago Medical Center's most distinguished clinical programs, those that provide complex specialty care with a focus on cancer, gastrointestinal disease, neuroscience, advanced surgery and high - technology medical imaging.

Lifestyle changes, medication and surgery can address some cases of PAD, but often the disease is not recognized until it has advanced considerably.

City of Hope offers the latest advances in head and neck surgery, meaning you can achieve outcomes not possible elsewhere.

Andrology Laboratory and Sperm Bank; Center for Advanced Research in Human Reproduction, Infertility, and Sexual Function: Research work in the Reproductive Research Center is mainly focused on elucidating the molecular mechanism associated with male and female infertility and on studies involving the management of sexual dysfunction in male and female patients following urologic surgeries.

For more information regarding Bristol - Myers Squibb Clinical Trial participation, please visit www.BMSStudyConnect.com Inclusion Criteria: • Early stage IB - IIIA, operable non-small cell lung cancer, confirmed in tissue • Lung function capacity capable of tolerating the proposed lung surgery • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of 0 - 1 • Available tissue of primary lung tumor Exclusion Criteria: • Presence of locally advanced, inoperable or metastatic disease • Participants with active, known or suspected autoimmune disease • Prior treatment with any drug that targets T cell co-stimulations pathways (such as checkpoint inhibitors) Other protocol defined inclusion / exclusion criteria could apply

The Endocrine Tumor Surgery setion within the Surgical Oncology department treats endocrine tumors in children and adults, with the goal of improving patient care through emerging technologies and advances in clinical and basic research.

Staff of this Program: Amanda M. Laird, MD, FACS, Chief, Section of Endocrine Surgery H. Richard Alexander, Jr., MD, Chief Surgical Officer Rebecca Burke, MD, Palliative Care Specialist Simon M. Hanft, MD, Director, Minimally Invasive Brain Tumor Surgery and Surgical Director, Pituitary Tumor Program Salma Jabbour, MD, Radiation Oncologist Timothy Kennedy, MD, FACS, Surgical Oncologist Sung Kim, MD, Radiation Oncologist Steven K. Libutti, MD, FACS, Director, Rutgers Cancer Institute and Surgical Oncologist Usha Malhotra, MD,, Medical Oncologist Stanley Trooskin, MD, FACS, Chief of General Surgery and Endocrine Surgeon Hetal Vig, MS, CGC, Genetic Counselor Elina Dykhne, APN, Advanced Practice Nurse Aleza Rubin, APN, Advanced Practice Nurse

Do date surgery is considered the most definitive treatment for early - stage melanoma, but it is rarely curative for the advanced stages of melanomas [8].