Sentences with phrase «performed hysterectomies»

Surgical robots have performed fairly well in the operating theater in the past decade, helping physicians perform hysterectomies, prostate removals and other complex, yet minimally invasive surgeries.

The last 15 years have seen a rise in the use of minimally invasive laparoscopy to perform hysterectomy, enabled by the use of power morcellators, which break uterine fibroids into small pieces to be removed via tiny laparoscopic incisions.

He and Ashley's parents decided that the best course of action, to make Ashley's life as pain - free as possible, was to stunt her growth with estrogen, and perform a hysterectomy and breast removal as well.

The nurse practitioner, who misinterpreted the results, referred the plaintiff to specialists, including a gynecologist, who performed her hysterectomy, and another surgeon, who performed her double mastectomy and reconstruction.

A Frederick County (Virginia, not Maryland) jury awarded a woman $ 3 million against a doctor who performed a hysterectomy.

Not exact matches

Undaunted, the supposed guardians of civil liberties — except the free exercise of religion, it seems — recently brought a case against a Catholic hospital for refusing to permit doctors to perform an elective hysterectomy as part of a sex - reassignment surgery.

Irregular / heavy menstrual bleeding can be treated in several ways: 1) Hormonal medication (a low dose birth control pill or cyclic progestin); 2) A hormone - containing intrauterine device (the most common one used is the Mirena IUD, which manages bleeding very effectively and is placed during an office visit and lasts for 5 years); 3) Endometrial ablation is a surgery commonly performed as an outpatient procedure; the entire lining of the uterus is cauterized (many women never get a menstrual period after an ablation); 4) Finally, I reserve hysterectomy as the treatment of last resort — typically only when the above options have not worked for a patient.

The third surgeon was performing a robotic hysterectomy.

Today, approximately 89 % of all hysterectomies are classified as «elective» surgery and are performed for conditions that are not life - threatening.

The use of an electric surgical device to perform a minimally invasive hysterectomy is what Frank Interlichia of Brighton, NY - and others in similar cases across the country - claim caused the death of their loved ones.

Now more than 70 percent of surgical procedures are performed in an outpatient setting, including more complex surgeries, such as hysterectomy, spine surgery and thyroid surgery.

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.

Think twice before getting this surgery About 500,000 hysterectomies — in which the uterus is removed — are performed annually in the U.S., making it the second most frequently performed surgical procedure on women.

Although hysterectomy should be considered for uterine cancer, some 90 percent of procedures in the United States today are performed for reasons other than treating cancer, according to William H. Parker, MD, clinical professor of gynecology at UCLA and author of the 05 study.

In fact, he adds, of the 617,000 hysterectomies performed annually, «from 76 to 85 percent» may be unnecessary.

I performed 500 hysterectomies.

Approximately 17 % of hysterectomies performed in the United States are due to uterine fibroids.

A hysterectomy is performed and then a reconstruction to turn Jane into John.

Linda Lasky, a registered veterinary technician at Montclair Veterinary Hospital in Oakland, Calif., said she is not aware of any veterinary hospital that performs a partial hysterectomy on dogs.

A six - year study of 113,906 spay / neuter surgeries performed in a Florida spay / neuter clinic found that the canine mortality rate was lower than that reported for hysterectomy in women.

Hysterectomies on parakeets, C - sections in iguanas, adrenal gland tumor removal in ferrets, and air bladder procedures on fish are just a few examples of procedures commonly performed by our North Coast doctors.

The doctor provided the plaintiff with a medical release waiver that authorized the doctor and «whomever he / she (they) may designate as his / her assistants, to perform the following operative or diagnostic procedure (s): total laparoscopic hysterectomy.»