Sentences with phrase «open surgery for»

Arrived back home mid day & it was downhill from there, vomiting every 40 minutes, it wasn't until 4 am that he started to have diarrhea, the explosive red type I remember from over 10 years back when 3 of our pups had Parvo......... I was in a panic, for Max had had all the jabs & today, Sunday morning forced my Vet to open his surgery for us.

Although laparoscopy — the technical term for minimally invasive surgery — has been around for more than a century, its use has grown substantially in the last 20 years since medical researchers have demonstrated that it is not only safer but also less expensive than open surgery for a number of different types of operations.

Internal Surgeries There are some situations in which we need to perform open surgeries for internal organ and tissue needs.

Not exact matches

My partners, Mike Glennon and Brian deGuzman, and I, developed AngioVac, a tube inserted into a vein which vacuums clots out of the body, avoiding the need for open surgery.

But surgeons who swear by their robotic arms tend to return to the same words of praise: They tout the «speed of recovery» for patients, who typically don't need to spend days or weeks in a hospital as they might after traditional open surgery.

Stress, with the increased focus that it brings, gives a surgeon the edge and alertness that's essential for performing emergency open - heart surgery.

For those who might have wondered about my physical, condition, I did have open - heart surgery in July of 1989 followed by a myocardial infarction and a second surgery all on the same day — they cleaned out the old pipes and replaced a few — but within a month of that ordeal I was walking ten miles a day, and now, in the best physical shape I have been in for years, I am running 12 miles a week, so no one need be overly concernFor those who might have wondered about my physical, condition, I did have open - heart surgery in July of 1989 followed by a myocardial infarction and a second surgery all on the same day — they cleaned out the old pipes and replaced a few — but within a month of that ordeal I was walking ten miles a day, and now, in the best physical shape I have been in for years, I am running 12 miles a week, so no one need be overly concernfor years, I am running 12 miles a week, so no one need be overly concerned.

For those who come to this study in «first naïveté,» a semester of biblical study resembles open - heart surgery without benefit of anesthesia.

I too am on them for 1 1/2 years for chronic recurrent pericarditis, which was a complication following my open heart surgery in 8/12.

The Red Sox predicted a midsummer return for Garciaparra after he had Opening Day surgery to repair a split tendon in his right wrist.

For sure, those who believed Tiger might make it to Pinehurst for this week's U.S. Open did not recognize the «big deal» it was for Woods to go under the knife, even if said scalpel left just tiny incisions, according to Selene Parekh, associate professor of surgery in Duke University's orthopedic surgery departmeFor sure, those who believed Tiger might make it to Pinehurst for this week's U.S. Open did not recognize the «big deal» it was for Woods to go under the knife, even if said scalpel left just tiny incisions, according to Selene Parekh, associate professor of surgery in Duke University's orthopedic surgery departmefor this week's U.S. Open did not recognize the «big deal» it was for Woods to go under the knife, even if said scalpel left just tiny incisions, according to Selene Parekh, associate professor of surgery in Duke University's orthopedic surgery departmefor Woods to go under the knife, even if said scalpel left just tiny incisions, according to Selene Parekh, associate professor of surgery in Duke University's orthopedic surgery department.

After prevailing at the 2008 U.S. Open, Woods left golf for knee surgery, which caused him to pass up that year's British Open and PGA.

My son's method of eating for the first several weeks was via IV due to being in an ICU after open - heart surgery.

My son used one for two weeks after having open heart surgery, but it quickly disappeared on the car ride home from the hospital.

I really wish I would have had this pillow when nursing my son after his open heart surgery, instead of the four hospital pillows the nurses tried to arrange for me.

Can your midwife administer prostaglandin to your baby to keep the ductus arteriosis open so they can get them to the hospital in time for surgery to correct it?

I always have a hard time reviewing baby bottles, as I never had a need for them other than when my son was in the hospital after open heart surgery.

After my son had open heart surgery at four months of age, the doctors suspected he had chylothorax, which meant no breastmilk for six weeks.

Gayle speaking at Bill Signing for HB 329 which permitted Martin Memorial to perform open heart surgery.

As people age, they become very high - risk for open - heart surgeries,» said Dr. Steven Marso, Medical Director of Interventional Cardiology and Professor of Internal Medicine.

Ahuja's study confirmed that for colon surgery, when compared to open surgery, laparoscopic surgery is associated with a lower mortality rate, a lower complication rate, shorter hospital stays and lower costs.

The researchers found that there were no statistically significant differences in the rates of conversion to open laparotomy for robotic - assisted laparoscopic surgery compared with conventional laparoscopic surgery (8.1 percent vs 12.2 percent, respectively), and there were no statistically significant differences in complication rates or quality of life at six months.

Until now, the only treatment option for a leaky tricuspid valve was open heart surgery using a heart - lung machine.

Open brain surgery is the standard treatment for patients with intractable MTLE.

«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.

«This discovery opens up new avenues, not only for understanding the genetics of hearing, but also, eventually for treating deafness,» said the principal investigator, Ronna P. Hertzano, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at the UM SOM.

In the original grant application for IMES, Herr had proposed that his colleague cut him open and perform the surgery.

Still, because surgery for spina bifida is straightforward — sealing an opening in the spinal column, which fails to close around the spinal cord as it should — surgeons began offering it prenatally more than 10 years ago.

One possible area is medical implantation, such as stents for holding arteries open after surgery or spinal disc replacements that can last a lifetime.

Parents of children with «critical» congenital heart defects — which require at least one cardiac surgery — are at high risk for mental health problems, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression, according to research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association.

With an aging population that is often too frail for open - heart surgery, more than 20,000 Americans die of the disease each year, according to the American Heart Association.

Transplantation of the periorbital tissues — the area surrounding the eyes — is a «technically feasible» alternative to protect a functioning eye in some patients being considered for facial transplant, according to a study in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery — Global Open ®, the official open - access medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASOpen ®, the official open - access medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASopen - access medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

However, concerns remain about the applicability of minimally invasive surgery for rectal cancer (the last 15 cm of the bowel, within the pelvis) following a randomised control trial comparison of laparoscopic vs conventional open surgery reporting that the laparoscopic group had a higher positive rate of involvement of the resection margin.

Newer drug - coated stents that keep arteries open have similar long - term rates of death compared with traditional bypass surgery for patients with more than one diseased coronary artery.

A comparison of the surgical removal of rectal tumours by a laparoscopically - assisted procedure and open surgery reveals that the case for routine use of laparoscopic procedures has not yet been established, according to a randomised control - trial study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

The technique for inserting a stent — called percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI — requires a much shorter hospital stay than traditional open - heart bypass surgery, and is much less likely to trigger strokes.

Some experimental heart attack treatments require surgery to open up the chest, but the two hydrogel materials already in clinical trials are injected into the damaged tissue through a long catheter inserted through the skin — eliminating the need for open - chest surgery.

The minimally invasive procedure is particularly effective for high - risk patients, such as the elderly, frail, or those with a history of other illness for whom open heart surgery may be too risky.

The FDA approved the CoreValve System to treat patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at high risk for surgery based on groundbreaking research showing the transcatheter heart valve had superior survival rates at one year when compared to open - heart surgery, the current gold standard for aortic valve replacement.

A minimally invasive procedure used to replace heart valves without open heart surgery appears to provide a durable remedy for people with a life - threatening form of heart disease in which the aortic valve opening narrows, diminishing blood flow.

We think it opens up a new avenue of investigation for drug development, guiding surgery, and understanding progression and spreading of cancer,» Kilian said.

The standard treatment for severe mitral valve regurgitation is open - heart surgery whereby the diseased valve is replaced or repaired.

Long - term survival rates following laparoscopic surgery for bladder cancer are comparable to those of open surgery, according to a study published in BJU International.

«The results of this study suggest there is little benefit to what is often considered a routine addition to the open - heart procedure of CABG for patients with moderate IMR,» said senior study author Robert Michler, M.D., professor and chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and co-director of The Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care.

This demonstration of efficient robotic performance of the challenging vascular, oncologic and reconstructive procedures inherent herein opens the door for major renal, caval, and hepatic robotic surgeries in the future.

The Johns Hopkins team analyzed the data to identify how many minimally invasive surgery procedures hospitals could be performing based on standard qualifications for four different operations: appendectomy, colectomy and hysterectomy, all procedures for which minimally invasive surgery has shown significant advantages over open procedures, and lung lobectomy, an operation for which the jury is still out on the risks versus benefits.

«Level III IVC tumor thrombectomy for renal cancer is one of the most challenging open urologic oncologic surgeries,» explained Inderbir S. Gill, MD, of the USC Institute of Urology, part of Keck Medicine of USC in Los Angeles, CA.

For example, when she and her colleagues used the database to compare complication rates between minimally invasive surgery and open surgery in the four procedures, they found that minimally invasive appendectomies had about one - half the complications of open appendectomies.

Death rates at one year were significantly lower for the 390 TAVR patients than for the 357 patients who had open - heart surgery.

Before the new defibrillator, treatment for some may have included more invasive open heart surgery to implant a traditional defibrillator, while others may have been unable to undergo surgery and remain at risk for sudden cardiac arrest.