Sentences with phrase «standard open surgery»

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

He believes these robotic tools will set a new standard in minimally invasive surgery — and eliminate a good deal of the terrible physical trauma associated with opening the heart.

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.

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

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.

Worldwide, an estimated 300,000 people have severe aortic stenosis — a faulty valve in the main artery carrying blood out of the heart — and roughly a third of them are deemed unable to withstand the standard treatment of open - heart surgery to replace the valve.

Bypass surgery, the standard treatment to open an artery, isn't an option for many patients because of other medical problems, Lookstein said.

Surgery may be performed by arthroscopy or in a standard «open incision» technique depending on the surgeon's recommendation and the classification / severity of the abnormality.

The critical illnesses covered under the Standard Plan are as follows — cancer of a specified severity, stroke resulting in permanent symptoms, first heart attack of specified severity, open chest CABG, kidney failure requiring regular dialysis, Multiple Sclerosis with persisting symptoms, major organ / bone marrow transplant, permanent paralysis of limbs, surgery of aorta, primary pulmonary arterial hypertension.