Sentences with phrase «with open surgery»

Using a combination of video endoscopy with specialized tools (diode lasers, endoscopic coagulation and cutting devices), a number of diseases previously only managed with open surgery can be performed using endoscopy.

Problems with mitral valves are typically treated with open surgery.

Researchers also found that PAE, developed and performed by interventional radiologists, is especially effective in men with BPH who also have acute urinary retention or the inability to voluntarily urinate and in patients with very large prostates who are normally treated with open surgery.

Not exact matches

I personally, and repeatedly, have confronted the big question mark here — commercial viability — and I started with a big problem common to open heart surgery, which is how to remove the clots that restrict blood flow to the lungs and threaten cardiac arrest.

Kimmel has been vocal about health care since he delivered his heart rending opening monologue in May about his newborn son, Billy, who came into the world with rare condition that required open heart surgery.

Stress, with the increased focus that it brings, gives a surgeon the edge and alertness that's essential for performing emergency open - heart surgery.

No one would explain their preferred open heart surgery technique based on the fact that their dad went under the knife back in 2004, but when it comes to starting and running your own business, everyone from your mother to a recent grad with no experience but dreams of being a blogger feels entitled to offer advice.

Aristotle (with whom Hargrove opens and closes his book) recognized that though we may not be able to do surgery upon our characters, we must learn how to strive against our weaknesses.

you know I wish I could have been able to bring you my chicken soup — it's full of antioxidants with enough jalapenos to open up those sinus passageways... I know, I have been plagued with bad sinuses as a doctor once told me, had 2 surgeries in my life and only in the last few years have I found how to really take care of»em... ya got ta keep them open... I do it with washes, ya know... — yeah, this is your rambling dude and so sorry you were so bad off, but I know the feeling....

Woods, as you should know by now, is scheduled to tee it up with Patrick Reed and Charley Hoffman Thursday morning at the Farmers Insurance Open in the most recent attempt to revive his career after multiple back surgeries.

Schilling started feuding with Williams, the Phillies» erratic reliever, over Williams's difficulty throwing strikes.Well, Williams was traded to the Houston Astros in the off - season, and Kruk got testicular cancer, and Schilling opened the next season miserably and then had elbow surgery, and Hollins got hurt, and then... and then, as we all know, baseball temporarily ceased to exist.

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

June 2008: After winning the U.S. Open (his 14th and last major title) while playing with pain in his knee and two stress fractures in his left tibia, has surgery to reconstruct the ACL and fix additional cartilage damage in his left knee.

Two days after the birth, in unrelated circumstances, I became critically ill with septicemia, which led to multiple organ failure, and I had a large open abdominal wound from emergency surgery.

That's 3 open heart surgeries (at a minimum) in the first few years of your babies life, and a lifetime with a single ventricle heart doing the work of both, that could have possibly been prevented.

If you knew your baby was going to be rushed into open heart surgery to replace or repair seriously compromised valves, wouldn't you rather they were born at a hospital that has or is attached to one with a top notch staff of pedatric cardiac surgeons?

Well, looking at the 10 steps I failed at: — # 6 nothing other than breast milk (gave hungry baby formula b / c I was too tired and drugged up to nurse more than 5 minutes)-- # 7 rooming in (being tired and drugged up I actually wanted to sleep)-- # 9 no pacifiers (I would rather baby have the SIDS prevention and soothing that comes from sucking)-- # 4 initiate breastfeeding within 30 minutes of birth (that C - section thing where they sliced my guts open interfered with that timing)-- # 10 I was referred to the support group but sure as hell didn't go (because I deemed healing at home from my surgery more important than being browbeaten about how I was feeding my baby).

They made the decision to try again and their son Jude was born in 2012 with a congenital heart defect, requiring open heart surgery at five days old.

«A coworker of mine needed emergency open heart surgery and the sick days provided him with a bridge until the disability benefits kicked in,» said Castiglione.

Some 15 years ago, during a fellowship at New York Medical College, he observed morbidly obese patients undergo open bariatric surgery — an old - school Roux - en - Y, done with giant incisions and often yielding horrendous complications.

The findings echo past studies, which have shown patients with multiple narrowed arteries have better outcomes with coronary artery bypass grafting, also known as CABG or heart bypass surgery, than with angioplasty, also known as percutaneous coronary intervention or PCI, a less - invasive option in which a stent is inserted to hold the arteries open.

A long - standing and fervent supporter of biomedical research — and a veteran of recurrent cancer, open heart surgery, and a mistaken diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's disease — Specter engineered, with Senator Tom Harkin (D — IA), the original 1998 to 2003 doubling of NIH funding.

Open surgery involves a larger incision that allows surgeons to work inside the body cavity with their hands.

Ahuja's study confirmed that for colon surgery, when compared to open surgery, laparoscopic surgery is associated with a lower mortality rate, a lower complication rate, shorter hospital stays and lower costs.

The researchers found that there were no statistically significant differences in the rates of conversion to open laparotomy for robotic - assisted laparoscopic surgery compared with conventional laparoscopic surgery (8.1 percent vs 12.2 percent, respectively), and there were no statistically significant differences in complication rates or quality of life at six months.

Among the study group, 49 children and their parents were given pricing information and told that open surgery — the traditional procedure performed with a scalpel — averaged $ 2,172 less than laparoscopy at the hospital.

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

«If these findings are confirmed in larger studies, they hold significant implications for new treatment targets and open the door for more questions such as: should these patients be treated more aggressively with medications, cognitive rehabilitation, or even surgery to open up the artery,» said Lal.

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.

Parents of children with «critical» congenital heart defects — which require at least one cardiac surgery — are at high risk for mental health problems, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression, according to research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association.

Her son, now age 4, was born with a congenital heart defect and had open heart surgery at 9 weeks old.

With an aging population that is often too frail for open - heart surgery, more than 20,000 Americans die of the disease each year, according to the American Heart Association.

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.

The minimally invasive procedure is particularly effective for high - risk patients, such as the elderly, frail, or those with a history of other illness for whom open heart surgery may be too risky.

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.

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.

They suggest that a laparoscopic approach to bladder cancer, when performed correctly, can be as safe as open surgery with regards to cancer control, though maintaining the benefits of a minimally invasive approach,» said Dr. Albisinni.

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.

The addition of mitral valve (MV) repair (a valve of the heart) to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a type of open - heart surgery, did not result in significant benefit to the patient and was associated with increased risk of neurological events.

«The results of this study suggest there is little benefit to what is often considered a routine addition to the open - heart procedure of CABG for patients with moderate IMR,» said senior study author Robert Michler, M.D., professor and chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and co-director of The Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care.

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.

Delicate surgery performed on a fetus months before birth can improve the health of children born with spina bifida, a devastating neural tube defect caused by an opening in the spine, a new study shows.

Brooke, along with co-researchers at Dartmouth College, examined records of more than 12,000 Medicare beneficiaries who underwent open surgery to repair a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), a high - risk procedure, and almost 53,000 who received a ventral hernia repair (VHR), a lower - risk operation, between 2003 - 2010.

«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.

NEW YORK (November 18, 2014)-- The addition of mitral valve (MV) repair (a valve of the heart) to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a type of open - heart surgery, did not result in significant benefit to the patient and was associated with increased risk of neurological events.

In this study, to our knowledge the largest randomized clinical trial of robotic - assisted laparoscopic surgery for patients with rectal adenocarcinoma suitable for curative resection, there were no statistically significant differences in the rates of conversion to open laparotomy for robotic - assisted laparoscopic surgery compared with conventional laparoscopic surgery (8.1 % vs 12.2 %, respectively), and there were no statistically significant differences in CRM +, complication rates, or quality of life at 6 months.

There is insufficient evidence to conclude that robotic - assisted laparoscopic surgery, compared with conventional laparoscopic surgery, reduces the risk of conversion to open laparotomy when performed by surgeons of varying experience with robotic - assisted surgery.

Writing in the Journal Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, one group of researchers argued that ««non-invasive» brain stimulation» may sound benign, but it comes with risks as severe as when a body is opened up in surgery.

A new technique of robotic partial nephrectomy has the potential for better preservation of kidney function and better cancer control during partial nephrectomy by allowing surgeons more time to perform the procedure compared with traditional open surgery, according to the results of a recently published case series.

For patients, this translates into a comprehensive evaluation culminating in an integrated care plan including medical therapies with minimally - invasive «endovascular» procedures or traditional open surgery when indicated, for the broad spectrum of vascular diseases.