Sentences with phrase «using open surgery»

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The company's shares fell as much as 8.1 percent in after - market trading as sales of its premium non-invasive device, used to replace diseased aortic valves without open - heart surgery, is its biggest growth driver.

But, there is life after death: «Today, in an act of radical design surgery, Randhurst is being remade into an open - air, mixed - use development that will have many features of a traditional downtown, including shops, movie theaters, offices and a hotel,» the Tribune writes.

My son used one for two weeks after having open heart surgery, but it quickly disappeared on the car ride home from the hospital.

In recent years, the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, has made the repair safer: Physicians place a new valve in the heart via a catheter inserted through the patient's leg, which results in less injury and an easier recovery than open heart surgery.

Until now, the only treatment option for a leaky tricuspid valve was open heart surgery using a heart - lung machine.

«Retrieving a clot from within the heart used to require open - heart surgery, resulting in longer hospitalization, recovery and rehabilitation times compared to the minimally invasive approach provided by the AngioVac system,» said Dr. Murray Kwon, a UCLA cardiothoracic surgeon who collaborated on Dunlap's procedure.

Dunlap could have open - heart surgery or undergo a new minimally invasive procedure using a device called AngioVac to vacuum the massive clot out of his heart.

Although a few surgeons have performed closed - chest bypasses using a heart - lung machine, and others have performed open - heart surgery without a heart - lung machine, Boyd was the first to put the whole package together, using the Zeus system.

A comparison of the surgical removal of rectal tumours by a laparoscopically - assisted procedure and open surgery reveals that the case for routine use of laparoscopic procedures has not yet been established, according to a randomised control - trial study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

The study patients received either a minimally invasive TAVR procedure — which uses a catheter that is routed through a blood vessel in the leg or chest to access the heart — or an open - heart surgery to replace the valve.

Using data and follow - up from the first and largest studies of TAVR safety, the research team found that the biologic valves used in a TAVR procedure, as well as those used in open heart surgery, continue to perform well up to five years after implantation.

A minimally invasive procedure used to replace heart valves without open heart surgery appears to provide a durable remedy for people with a life - threatening form of heart disease in which the aortic valve opening narrows, diminishing blood flow.

The treatment uses a catheter to place a clip on the mitral valve to reduce the leakage, offering the only alternative treatment option to open heart surgery.

In this randomized controlled PARTNER 2A trial, outcomes using the SAPIEN XT valve were compared with open - heart surgery valve replacement among 2,032 intermediate - risk patients treated between December 2011 and November 2013 at 57 sites, all but two in the U.S. Patients were randomly assigned; 1,011 to TAVR and 1,021 to surgery.

Minimally invasive surgery, which uses a few small incisions rather than one large incision, has been associated with better outcomes than open surgery, including fewer surgical site infections, less pain and shorter hospital stays.

For example, when she and her colleagues used the database to compare complication rates between minimally invasive surgery and open surgery in the four procedures, they found that minimally invasive appendectomies had about one - half the complications of open appendectomies.

It is used in some 50 million cases a year — everything from colonoscopies to cesareans to open - heart surgeries — and nearly 90 percent of the propofol used in the U.S. comes from the E.U..

Ultrasound is sometimes used to perform surgery without having to cut open the body.

«The hope behind something like this capsule is that the surgeon will be able to place it inside the body through an existing incision and leave it in a position where it can be easily grasped and used to map out the stiffness or density of the tissue when needed, much like he or she would palpate it with by hand in open surgery,» said collaborator S. Duke Herrell, associate professor of urologic surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Although laparoscopy — the technical term for minimally invasive surgery — has been around for more than a century, its use has grown substantially in the last 20 years since medical researchers have demonstrated that it is not only safer but also less expensive than open surgery for a number of different types of operations.

When possible, minimally invasive surgeries — which use smaller incisions compared to a traditional open procedure — will be performed.

Feldman, chief of breast surgery at Columbia University Medical Center, who works with Keyes and operated on Ballas, says that after watching his sister use alternative therapies like nutrition and meditation during her fight against breast cancer, he became more open to having a Reiki master on his surgical team.

The surgery can be «open» — meaning, the doctor will make a large cut to remove the tumor, surrounding healthy tissue, and nearby lymph nodes all at once — or «minimally invasive,» in which a surgeon can use special tools to remove the growths by making a few smaller cuts.

In cases where this herb has been used, the condition is actually reversed and in this way, patients do not require open heart surgery to correct blockages.

I have become very interested in your recipes and using quinoa, as my husband had open heart surgery 2 years ago, so I'm trying to «redo» our recipes and our eating habits.

So we use a much more modern absorbable suture that a.) almost never comes open after surgery, and b.) absorbs extremely rapidly for the pet's comfort and owner's peace of mind.

Surgery that uses small incisions in the abdominal wall that are between two and three inches to provide easy access to abdominal organs without a fully open approach.

It is our intent to use the Humane Alliance model and mentor program and visit their facilities in Asheville, North Carolina prior to opening for surgeries.

Instead, reconstructive surgery is used to correct such painful and irritating conditions; to help with wound closures when not enough skin is available due to trauma, infection, or tumor removal; or to open up the nostrils in so - called «squishy faced» breeds to allow for easier breathing.

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Cells can be successfully transplanted into the canine spinal cord via a needle instead of «open» surgery, which was used in the past.

Trouble breathing (a slight cough is normal — it's from the tube used to keep her airways open during surgery)

Imagine an old heart surgeon refusing to use current technology, preferring to launch into open heart surgery the way it was done in the «old days».

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Stöckert 3T and LivaNova PLC Heater - Cooler devices, which are used during open heart surgery, were possibly contaminated during manufacturing.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published a warning to patients and healthcare providers of the potential for infection from open - heart surgeries using particular devices.

The Medical University of South Carolina recently announced as many as 3,000 patients may be at risk of infection after learning medical equipment used in open heart surgeries since 2012 tested positive for potentially deadly bacteria.