Sentences with phrase «surgery case of»

Samden Lhatoo, MD, FRCP, Jonathan Miller, MD, and Hans Luders, MD, PhD, discuss the epilepsy surgery case of patient Gayle Waxon.

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Meanwhile, the slow march of automation continues: Robots now fly planes, perform surgeries, and in some cases write news.

So right now, they focus on other applications, such as building precise three - dimensional models, drawn from CT scans, of actual patient organs and tissues that surgeons can use for pre-operative practice and training in the case of difficult surgeries.

First, surgeons remove the uterus and part of the vagina from the donor — in this case, one who was deceased, since it is a risky surgery that involves separating uterine blood vessels that are tightly wrapped around the tubes from the bladder.

Do we use surgery to «fix» all cases of full and partial hermaprhodites?

In the case of my illness, the prescribed first round of radiation and chemotherapy did its job of making the eventual surgery effective.

There have been cases of muslim doctors purposfully botching surgerys because the patient was an infedel.

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.

Harry Redknapp resigned as QPR manager on Tuesday, citing imminent knee replacement surgery as the reason for his decision, but the Independent explained that it was more a case of him jumping before he was pushed, with the club hierarchy having already lost patience.

Whether that has more to do with Garcia in general or the procedure is unclear, and that's kind of the case for all of the pitchers who have recently undergone surgery for it.

If that's the case, does he DH the rest of the season and have surgery in the offseason or go ahead with surgery immediately?

If surgery is needed, most cases of hip labral tears can be treated with arthroscopic surgery rather than an open procedure.

While Dr. Richard Guyer of the Center for Disc Replacement at the Texas Back Institute, who performed the surgery, notes that «each procedure and case is unique,» patients are usually able to resume full activity in some six months.

In rare cases, surgery is needed for athletes who have persistent back pain after several months of conservative treatment.

On Monday, Wade announced that he will delay surgery on the shoulder he injured Feb. 21 and undergo a vigorous rehab program in hopes of returning before the playoffs — in which case, for a few weeks at least, he'll have to slow his game down for Shaq's sake, much as Bryant did.

In either case, he will most likely then be given a sex reassignment surgery and raised as a girl — which of course chromosomally and physiologically he will never actually be.

Pump ahead of your surgery as well so you have milk for baby during your surgery and afterward just in case.

This happens in small percentage of cases and it can be corrected with cranial surgery and post-operative helmet therapy.

Women run 5 to 7 times the risk of death with cesarean section compared with vaginal birth.14, 29 Complications during and after the surgery include surgical injury to the bladder, uterus and blood vessels (2 per 100), 30 hemorrhage (1 to 6 women per 100 require a blood transfusion), 30 anesthesia accidents, blood clots in the legs (6 to 20 per 1000), 30 pulmonary embolism (1 to 2 per 1000), 30 paralyzed bowel (10 to 20 per 100 mild cases, 1 in 100 severe), 30 and infection (up to 50 times morecommon).1 One in ten women report difficulties with normal activities two months after the birth, 23 and one in four report pain at the incision site as a major problem.9 One in fourteen still report incisional pain six months or more after delivery.9 Twice as many women require rehospitalization as women having normal vaginal birth.18 Especially with unplanned cesarean section, women are more likely to experience negative emotions, including lower self - esteem, a sense of failure, loss of control, and disappointment.

In most cases, the answer is yes; however, women who have had breast or nipple surgery may have reduced milk supply, especially in the case of breast reduction surgery.

The important thing to remember is that giving birth is a huge emotional and physical task and in the case of caesarean, it also involves major surgery.

These conditions can even require surgery to get rid of in extreme cases.

Severe cases might call for surgery, which is definitely a more invasive, expensive and time consuming solution than benefiting from the positive effects of the best compression pantyhose on the market.

Doctors in the past have been concerned that if surgery was not used in the case of persistent middle ear fluid, children could face long - term developmental impairment.

Not to mention that in cases of surgery on a pediatric patient, they receive way more anesthesia medication than is in your milk.

In rare cases, depending on the size of the lump removed, you may choose to have breast reconstruction surgery.

In the case of C - sections, moms usually get to add to the audience by choosing one support person to accompany her during the surgery.

It could indicate an infection, gastroesophageal reflux disease, or, in rare cases, pyloric stenosis, a thickening of stomach muscles that requires surgery.

In severe cases of reflux, surgery to repair the esophageal sphincter muscle may also be an option.

In some cases, surgery to remove all or part of the thyroid might also be necessary.

The list includes Skelos» No. 2 — Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous, who is in Florida recovering from surgery related to his fight with terminal cancer, and is also battling in a corruption case of his own.

If cosmetic surgery is considered to be a form of medical procedure, which it undoubtedly is, then it should not be advertised, as is the case with prescription medicines.

«Over that period of time not one member of the public came to a surgery of mine, not one local councillor asked me a question, either in my political group or in full council, not one local MP in Rotherham raised the issue or a case of CSE for those five years,» he said.

Defending the claim last night, Danczuk told The Sun: «We deal with a high volume of emotional cases at many of my surgeries, and sometimes people do get upset.»

A total of thirty four cases have been booked for reconstructive surgery at the Ghana Center for Excellence for Fistula...

An infection of the prostate or urinary tract — another common sperm blocker that typically goes undetected — can be cleared up with antibiotics or, in more severe cases, surgery.

Seventy - four cases of glaucoma surgery and 740 controls were identified.

Still the reasons for the increasing popularity of ambulatory surgery centers compared to hospital - based care include convenience, lower out - of - pocket costs for patients and decreased cost - per - case for insurers.

In the future, ultrasound scans of the carotid artery will lead to the ability to perform surgery at an earlier stage in some cases, and the ability to avoid surgery completely in others.

«It is estimated there are 1 million new cases of sepsis in hospitalized patients per year in the United States,» said Dr. John Griswold, professor and chair emeritus in the Department of Surgery at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

In these cases, Pezaris says, «the benefits of the device do not outweigh the risks of the surgery.»

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

The new findings — including before - and - after measurements in a large group of plastic surgery patients — are consistent with previous case reports of improvement in back pain and urinary incontinence after abdominoplasty.

Even the imaging tests that doctors use to make the case for back surgery, including MRI, X-rays, and CT scans, are not very good at pinpointing the cause of pain, comments Jerome Groopman, chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and author of How Doctors Think.

But of all those who have had theirsight restored throughout history, only about 20 recorded cases wereblind since childhood, and of those, most had less - than - perfect corneasafter surgery.

Surgery is the most reliable method of treatment for incontinence — curing the condition in just over eight in ten cases; other types of treatment, meanwhile, do not deliver the same kind of success.

«Before this test, about one in five potential thyroid cancer cases couldn't be diagnosed without an operation to remove a portion of the thyroid,» said lead author Linwah Yip, M.D., assistant professor of surgery in Pitt's School of Medicine and UPMC surgical oncologist.

In the case of a postoperative cancer diagnosis, a second surgery is required to remove the rest of the thyroid.

Most plastic surgery cases involved the limbs, reflecting the high rate of injuries caused by blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs)-- the «signature wounding mechanism» of the war in Afghanistan, according to the authors.

«Currently a majority of patients undergo colon resections for large polyps that don't harbor any cancer cells, which means in many cases a person's colon is being removed for noncancerous reasons, based on subjective criteria,» said lead study author Emre Gorgun, MD, FACS, FASCRS, a staff surgeon in the department of colorectal surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.