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«Unstable chromosomes linked to less favorable response to radiation therapy and surgery in prostate cancer patients.»
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The study finds that transgender women who received only hormone therapy had poorer metabolic health than transgender women who underwent sex reassignment surgery in addition to receiving hormone therapy.
For now Staels believes that it's «totally impossible to abandon surgery in the morning.»
«Little benefit of adding heart valve repair to bypass surgery in patients with coronary heart disease.»
A total of 55,320 hypertensive patients underwent noncardiac surgery in Denmark between 2005 and 2011; baseline clinical characteristics were similar between the 14,644 patients treated with β - blockers and the 40,676 patients treated with other antihypertensive drugs.
Patients who underwent open - heart surgery in the afternoon experienced better health outcomes compared to those who got operated on in the morning, study authors found after six years of observing nearly 600 patients who underwent heart valve replacement.
The need for better ways to reknit damaged tendons and ligaments is painfully apparent to the roughly two million Americans in a given year who seek medical help for tears in their shoulder's rotator cuff, for example, or the 100,000 patients in the same year who undergo surgery in the U.S. to repair a ripped or ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee.
A new study indicates that a classification system based on patient symptoms and basic lab tests can reduce the need for diagnostic imaging, hospital admissions, and surgery in patients with suspected appendicitis.
Data from this non-inferiority trial — the first to evaluate TAVR in patients who are considered intermediate - risk — suggests TAVR is at least as safe and effective as surgery in these patients.
The new study shows «continued positive outcomes» after migraine surgery in appropriately selected patients, including large improvements in migraine - related disability.
«More than $ 16 billion spent on cosmetic plastic surgery in 2016.»
In 2002, Crosswhite was one of eight patients to volunteer for the risky brain surgery in hope of delaying her decline due to Alzheimer's.
«Once they get sicker and older, men begin to seek bariatric surgery in greater numbers.»
«Current guidelines for weight loss surgery in adolescents: A review of the literature,» which Mudd conducted with a colleague, highlights the significant variance in current guidelines, particularly when it comes to age, body mass index, and co-occurring health problems.
A special type of MRI developed at Hospital for Special Surgery in collaboration with GE Healthcare can show a detailed image following fracture repair, without the distortion caused by metal surgical screws that are problematic in standard MRIs.
«This trial has helped us establish a large network of surgical centers to answer important questions about cardiac surgery in a very rigorous way,» Whitlock said.
Rodrigo Gouvea Rosique, MD, PhD, of Master Hospital of Plastic Surgery in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, and colleagues outline their safe and effective technique of «gluteoplasty with autologous fat tissue» for buttocks augmentation.
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.
Currently, up to 25 % of patients presenting for surgery in the United States have sleep apnea.
In the study's first year, 36 BCCs were treated with Mohs surgery in 27 participants in the control group, but only 17 BCCs were treated with the procedure among 14 patients in the 5 - FU group.
The benefits of surgery in patients at least 80 years of age were similar to those in younger patients, except for the outcome measures of pain and physical function, which were higher in the under age 80 group.
Rogers is the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery in the McCormick School of Engineering and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Whether it is American senior citizens driving into Canada in order to buy cheap prescription drugs or Canadians coming to the U.S. for surgery in order to avoid long wait times, the relative merits of these two nations» health care systems are often cast in terms of anecdotes.
«The Gatorade Sports Sciences Institute knows a great deal about sweat, and they have very rigorous testing protocols for evaluating new technologies in this space,» said Rogers, the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery in McCormick and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and he is director of the Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics (CBIE).
The team, led Julia C. Tchou, MD, PhD, an associate professor of Surgery in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, found that a history of taking aspirin was not associated with improved survival, regardless of receptor status.
The revolutionary technology has been successfully used for minimally invasive heart surgery in pigs, giving an unprecedented, high - resolution view of soft tissues up to 2.5 cm in front of the instrument, inside the body.
«In this study, we decided to find out if pre-operative, prophylactic antibiotic concentrations in joint fluid samples from patients were sufficient to prevent Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA contamination,» said Noreen Hickok, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery in the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University.
The robot outperformed expert surgeons and current robot - assisted surgical techniques in open bowel surgery in pigs.
Previous studies have shown that bariatric surgery in patients who are morbidly obese can reduce weight and comorbidities, but clinicians have not known whether the surgery is helpful or harmful to morbidly obese patients undergoing a joint replacement.
Those responsible for the doctor's surgery in Pump Street in Bromyard, Herefordshire, wanted to give the surgery a name connected with the neighbourhood.
«With our data, I think we can say with confidence that bariatric surgery prior to total joint replacement is not a harmful recommendation,» said lead study author Alexander McLawhorn, MD, MBA, an assistant attending orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
I had top surgery in 2014 — breast removal and chest reconstruction.
A large study of 108,711 patients who had cardiac surgery in Ontario, Canada, sought to identify risk factors for long - term stroke after surgery to improve outcomes for patients.
In the wake of these findings, demand for the procedure has surged among African men, overwhelming government hospitals and fueling fears that untrained hucksters offering unsanitary surgery in makeshift clinics could transmit bloodborne diseases through the reuse of nonsterile scalpels.
The device consists of two parts, an implant and a prosthesis, the first part requires surgery in which a titanium piece is placed into the bone and a control system that connect electrodes to the muscles and nerves is installed.
This makes the CCC in Vienna General Hospital the first centre for robotic colorectal surgery in Austria.
The researchers, from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine, focused on protein - losing enteropathy (PLE), a severe loss of proteins in the intestine that is a rare but potentially life - threatening side effect of staged heart surgery in patients with single - ventricle disease.
«But our findings show that obesity can now be defined as a risk factor for developing multiple myeloma through this condition,» said the study's first author, Su - Hsin Chang, PhD, an assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University.
In a sense, the postop bacterial changes are not surprising, says endocrinologist David Cummings at the University of Washington, Seattle, (although he notes it's a «herculean feat» to manage gastric bypass surgery in animals as tiny as mice).
In addition to Dr. Ferris and co-author Sally E. Carty, M.D., who is professor and chief of the Division of Endocrine Surgery in Pitt's School of Medicine and co-director of the UPMC / UPCI Multidisciplinary Thyroid Center, the panel reviewing the tests was a multidisciplinary group from a dozen institutions in the U.S. and Canada.
«We looked at cytokine measurements taken immediately following surgery in the post anesthesia care unit, then again two days following surgery while the patient was still in the hospital, and finally, one month post-surgery,» said Vasunilashorn.
«Minimally invasive molecular testing for thyroid cancer has improved by leaps and bounds in the last several years,» said co-author Robert L. Ferris, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery in Pitt's School of Medicine.
The biggest need for infant brain surgery in the developing world is infection - caused hydrocephalus.»
UT Southwestern has been a pioneer in identifying opportunities for minimally invasive surgery in several other areas, including efforts to develop magnetically controlled surgical instruments to reduce the number of entry ports into abdominal cavities.
«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.
«Further work is needed to define the role of bariatric surgery in cancer care and prevention, but we know that women with endometrial cancer are more likely to die of cardiovascular causes than they are of endometrial cancer.
In an abstract titled «Factors Associated with Failure to Operate for Localized Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma,» the research team used the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database to identify factors associated with not receiving surgery in patients with localized pancreatic cancer.
Women whose symptoms persist despite trying non-surgical approaches such as pelvic floor exercises may be suitable for surgery in order to improve bladder control.
The concern about e-cigarette use stems from the increased risk of complications after plastic surgery in cigarette smokers.
FORCE - TJR is unique in quantifying patient reported pain and function after surgery in order to assess multiple factors associated with the best results.