About 92
percent had the surgery performed laparoscopically, through small abdominal incisions.
Not exact matches
Popli called that a marked improvement over the 60
percent success rate of conventional epilepsy
surgery, which, he noted,
has not been
performed at the medical center since it adopted the Visualase technology.
«If 10
percent of these emergency
surgeries had been
performed electively, the cost difference
would have been nearly $ 1 billion over 10 years,» said Adil Haider, MD, MPH, director of the Center for
Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and lead author of the paper.
Over the past three years, this coordinated effort
has resulted in a 27
percent increase in the number of spay / neuter
surgeries performed; which in turn
has resulted in a 39
percent decrease in shelter intake and euthanasia rates
have plummeted by 79
percent.
After our old vet confirmed the original diagnosis, we decided to
have him
perform the
surgery, despite the fact that his estimate for such a procedure was about 40
percent more expensive.