Sentences with phrase «rate than surgery»

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Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

A study in 2011 looking at more than 645 ACL surgeries found that in patients between the ages of 10 ««19, allograft tissue had a four times higher failure rate than using your own tissue.

Every year since 1983 no fewer than one in five American women has given birth via major abdominal surgery.22, 34 Today one in four or 25 % of women have a cesarean for the birth of their baby.22 The rate for first - time mothers may approach one in three.9 Studies show that the cesarean rate could safely be halved.11 The World Health Organization recommends no more than a 15 % cesarean rate.34 With a million women having cesarean sections every year, this means that 400,000 to 500,000 of them were unnecessary.No evidence supports the idea that cesareans are as safe as vaginal birth for mother or baby.

Young athletes who delay ACL reconstructive surgery more than 150 days after injury experience higher rates of other kinds of knee injuries, including medial meniscal tears, say a new study presented to the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Specialty Day in San Francisco, California.

The biggest problem being cesarean surgery and operative vaginal births increase when the electronic fetal monitor is used, but the babies don't do any better than babies who had their heart rate measured every 15 minutes with a stethoscope.

And today, more than a third of American babies are born via surgery — a rate even obstetricians» groups acknowledge is too high — while the majority of U.S. births involve the use of epidural anesthesia or the labor - inducing drug Pitocin.

For example, women who achieve VBAC avoid major abdominal surgery and have lower rates of hemorrhage, thromboembolism, and infection, and a shorter recovery period than women who have an elective repeat cesarean delivery (2, 3, 7, 9, 33).

Headlines and government agencies should be asking why obstetricians are performing unnecessary surgery on healthy pregnant women for no medical reason, rather than promoting the fiction of increasing rates of «maternal request» cesareans.

The rate of increase for glaucoma surgery was faster than cataract surgery.

The rate of increase for cornea surgery was slower than cataract surgery.

Estimates suggest that more than 230 million patients undergo surgery worldwide each year, with reported mortality rates between 1 percent and 4 percent.

In examining the STS - CMS linked data, researchers found that the median survival following lung cancer surgery for pathologic Stage I (early stage) was 6.7 years, almost 2 years longer than the benchmark 5 - year survival rate.

Although treatment has improved, the surgery rate in patients with ductal adenocarcinoma is around 30 percent and the five - year survival rate is less than 20 percent.

A new study appearing in the February 4th issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS) found significant benefit from surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis — debilitating spinal conditions causing leg and back pain, numbness and weakness — and no higher overall complication rate and no higher mortality for patients age 80 and older when compared to patients younger than age 80.

More than 500,000 patients every year develop an SSI, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).1 Orthopedic procedures have a low SSI rate, ranging from 0.7 to 2.1 infections for every 100 cases.2 Nevertheless, orthopedic surgery patients with SSIs have a two times higher rate of rehospitalization and a 300 percent increase in treatment costs.3

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.

Patients who had surgery in sunny months — May to August — had a roughly 30 percent higher overall survival rate or time to cancer recurrence than did those getting surgery in the winter.

Women undergo more cesarean sections each year in the United States than any other major surgery, with the procedure carrying a significant rate of infection at the incision site.

A study in Japan found that patients who listened to nature sounds during surgery emerged from general anesthesia more smoothly than a control group who heard the procedure; the latter experienced significantly higher heart rate and blood pressure while returning to consciousness.

- A simple checklist helped surgical teams cut death rates by nearly half and reduce major complications of surgery by more than a third in a pilot study at eight hospitals worldwide.

For those taking bisphosphonate medications, the rate of hip fractures was 86 per 1,000 patients — higher than the combined rate for those who underwent surgery or did nothing at all.

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

Recent research using national data on Medicare suggests that community - based factors, such as availability of general practitioners in the area, may be as or more important than hospital factors in determining readmission rates, and that patients may have few options other than hospital care for both urgent and non-urgent conditions related to their surgery or other conditions.

Despite improvements in OS and CSS, survival rates following RT remained lower than those for elderly patients who received surgery.

However, among general surgery and medical service patients those receiving high - ratio transfusions had a higher mortality rate than those receiving low - ratio transfusions, while the opposite was found among vascular surgery patients.

For example, a recent study of outcomes after lung cancer surgery demonstrated fewer complications and a higher success rate of cancerous node removal in patients who had their procedures performed by a thoracic surgeon, rather than a cardiac or general surgeon.

A 2005 study of more than 1,500 doctors who implanted cardiac defibrillators in their patients over a three - year period found that the rate of complications within three months of the surgery was roughly 60 % higher for doctors who had implanted fewer than 10 of the devices than for doctors who'd implanted more than 29.

As a side note, if your surgeon wants to «debulk» your colon and / or stomach of cancer cells and tumors, keep this in mind: colon cancer and stomach cancer patients have a lower cure rate than other cancer patients precisely because surgery and chemotherapy damages the ability of their stomach and colon to properly digest foods.

If your surgeon wants to «debulk» your colon and / or stomach of cancer cells and tumors, keep this in mind: Colon cancer and stomach cancer patients have a lower cure rate than other cancer patients precisely because surgery and chemotherapy damage the ability of their stomach and colon to properly digest foods.

It also presents evidence that women who have normal progesterone levels when undergoing breast cancer surgery have better survival rates than those who undergo the same surgery with low progesterone levels.

Other studies have shown that women who have normal progesterone levels when undergoing breast cancer surgery have better survival rates than women who undergo the same surgery with low progesterone levels.

While fewer than 1,000 teens have the surgery in the U.S. each year (versus 200,000 to 250,000 adults), it is becoming more common among adolescents as obesity rates continue to rise.

Unfortunately, the large majority of the cash went toward Tim and Eric living a lifestyle of Hollywood excess, complete with plastic surgeries, stylists, an expensive life coach (Zach Galifianakis) who has magical powers for no reason except that there's no reason for him to have magical powers, and piercings (The movie gives us a long look in close and medium shots of Eric getting a genital piercing (using, we assume and hope, a prosthetic), which is the first of a few reasons why the MPAA's decision to give this an R rating is a bigger point of offense than anything in the movie, especially considering the ratings board's tendency to overreact to naughty words).

Today the survival rate is better than 80 percent with surgery.

In those cases, the overall success rate will be lower than at Centers that confine their surgery to more healthy pets.

In Dr. McCalla's experience, diabetic dogs tend to have a better surgical success rate after cataract surgery than «normal» dogs with cataracts.

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.

Studies have shown that surgery alone is not effective with survival rates that are no different than dogs that have not been treated.

I started at Lake County Animal Care & Control in 2013 and spent two years there helping to build the surgery and medicine program as their Medical Director, and we were very proud to have dropped our euthanasia rates down by more than 50 % and it continued to drop.

Burn reconstruction surgery is technically demanding and prone to a higher complication rate than other reconstructive surgery.

Some of the potential complications of surgical mesh include pain, infection, bleeding, organ perforation urinary problems or vaginal mesh erosion at higher rates than patients who elect for traditional surgery.

- Without surgery, last attack in last 12 months will be in the table 2 - 4 range - Without surgery, last attack over one year ago will be in the Standard to Table 2 range - With surgery, segmental resection, fully recovered will be standard to standard plus - With more extensive surgery last 12 months, fully recovered will be table 2 range - With more extensive surgery more than one year ago, fully recovered will be Standard - Not recovered, symptoms continuing will be table 4 range - Multiple surgeries may be rated higher - With recent signs of hemorrhage can be declined.

• Heart disease: Their rates can be as much as 25 - 40 % less than their competitors when it comes to a heart attack, stents and bypass surgery.

While I can get reasonably priced life insurance for someone that is 6 ′ and nearly 400 pounds as long as they don't already have other health issues, those rates could be 70 % less 2 years post bariatric surgery at a weight of 240 pounds and the risk of collateral health issues will probably have been reduced by a higher percentage than the life insurance rates.

Rather than working like the cuff system at your local doctor's surgery, this will use a light source and light receiver to monitor your bloodstream in a similar way to a heart rate tracker.