Sentences with phrase «with results of surgery»

Although initially happy with the results of surgery, which saw Mrs Slater lose half her body weight after undergoing the surgery, she later developed serious nutritional deficiencies and suffered from a life - threatening infection.

If you are unhappy or unsatisfied with the results of your surgery, you very well could have grounds for a medical malpractice claim; however, to accurately determine this, you should consult a legal professional.

Simply being unsatisfied with the results of a surgery is not enough grounds to file a medical malpractice claim.

Although all owners subjectively expressed complete satisfaction with results of surgery at the end of the study, operated dogs still had objectively significantly lower peak vertical, peak propulsive, and impulse propulsive forces and lower angles of hip joint abduction and extension than did control dogs at day 120.

Not exact matches

When I rang my surgery for the results of the pregnancy test, the nurse pronounced, «it's positive» with the tone of someone telling me that I was terminally ill.

Tiger, playing with a fused back, the result of his fourth back surgery, is hitting the ball as far as he ever has and the rest of his game has returned over the last month in Florida.

we already faced and went through what many married couples go through being married for 40 to 50 years such as death of a parent, death of many family members from different things (most deaths they were 20 and 40 yrs old), gun voilence due to an adult not locking the gun away, the victims were 12 years old, a house fire that destroyed just about everything, car accident which resulted in surgery with 2 years unable to work, inlaws, rasing children, ect...)

Neifert also adds that cutting a nerve during breast surgery could result in over - or de-sensitivity in the nipple, both of which affects breastfeeding because it interferes with nipple sensation, which is vital to the production of breast milk.

I have been very pleased with the results of my unnatural obstetrical surgery.

Dr. Sammartino and colleagues conclude, «Bone undergoes less stress during surgery and thus less pain and swelling postoperatively, which is in agreement with the results found in our trial: pain and discomfort were minimal compared to the traditional technique (saw and drills) especially in the immediate postoperative period of healing (within 3 days).»

If other surgeons in other settings with other patient populations have similar results with the device, we can apply to the FDA for a 510 (k) clearance and begin to bring the product into more widespread use,» said Michael Harrison, MD, FACS, professor emeritus of surgery at UCSF.

It was intended to keep patients safely asleep during surgeries, but many woke up with symptoms similar to those experienced by people with schizophrenia, including hallucinations and the disorientation of feeling «dissociated» from their limbs, resulting in PCP being abandoned for clinical purposes.

«These exciting results indicate that there is a new standard of care option for a population of head and neck cancer patients with no other treatment options,» said the trial's international co-chair Robert Ferris, M.D., Ph.D., UPMC Endowed Professor, and chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery and co-leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at UPCI.

Because ovarian cancer is relatively rare, occurring in approximately one out of every 2,500 women, a test with only 99 percent specificity would result in false - positive diagnoses for 25 women, leading to unnecessary and risky surgeries and procedures.

The results suggest that use of pain medications increases in the year before hip - replacement surgery, with a further increase immediately afterward, followed by a long - term decrease.

Use of mechanical thrombectomy on qualifying stroke patients could result in major savings to the healthcare economy in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and other western countries with a similar healthcare structure, according to a new study presented at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery 12th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Uterine artery embolization, a minimally invasive interventional radiologic technique that has been shown in randomized trials to result in quality of life that is similar to that after surgery, with shorter hospital stays and less time to resumption of usual activities.

There are thousands of hospital admissions for dog bites each year, many resulting in injury to the face requiring plastic surgery, and with children worst affected.

Given the lack of mortality benefit of screening, and the moderate to substantial harms that could result from false - positive screeningtest results and subsequent surgery, the USPSTF concludes with moderate certainty that the harms of screening for ovarian cancer outweigh the benefit, and the net balance of the benefit and harms of screening is negative.

Patients with suppressed immune systems have higher risks of severe, post-operative infections that are difficult to control, and can result in additional surgery, prolonged antibiotic use, and even death.

Three months following the surgery, his sleep study results showed a decrease of obstructive sleep apnea symptoms from an index score above 40 to below 10, and he has subsequently been able to have his tracheostomy tube removed with good results.

«The results of surgery performed by members of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) in this trial were excellent but we need to wait longer and get further results to understand the best way to use laparoscopic procedures, and to determine whether this is something suitable for all patients or considered with more caution in patients who are difficult to operate on.»

The results suggest that the risk of revision surgery and most other complications of shoulder arthroplasty increases along with BMI in obese patients.

The researchers limited their evaluation of the results of the technique to patients with no major weight loss or gain during the year after surgery.

«One in five women with ovarian cancer does not undergo surgery, study reveals: Results show survival benefit of surgery for patients regardless of age or advanced disease, and point to barriers to cancer care delivery.»

Risk of MACEs associated with β - blocker use seemed especially pronounced for patients at least 70 years old, for men and for patients undergoing acute surgery, according to the results.

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.

There was no difference in schools grades with one exposure to anesthesia for surgery before the age of 6 months, between 7 to 12 months, between 13 to 24 months or between 25 to 36 months, according to the results.

If we validate this study in similar, but larger groups of patients, we can develop a test based for CFS breaks; the results would allow us to place patients in one of two categories: those whose tumors do not have CFS breaks and who would likely do well with local treatment alone (e.g. radiotherapy or surgery); and, those patients whose tumors do have CFS breaks and would need a more complex treatment protocol, in addition to RT or surgery, to combat distant spread.»

«We are encouraged that the results of this multi-center study will provide patients, caregivers, and treating surgeons some guidance when faced with the decision of moving ahead with surgery,» says Dr. Miyanji.

«As a result of these findings, we expect that more physicians will consider gastric bypass surgery as a viable option for patients with type 2 diabetes and mild to moderate obesity when previous attempts to lose weight and improve glycemic control have not been successful,» said Simonson.

These new surgical techniques, along with improved postoperative care, are resulting in better long - term outcomes and lower rates of complications, according to an article published online today in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

Dr Jeremy Thomas, a consultant pathologist at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, told the European Breast Cancer Conference that although the majority of women with DCIS received the correct surgery for their disease, large numbers of women were undergoing mastectomy for DCIS either as a result of failed breast conservation surgery or for tumors that turned out to be smaller than 20 mm in diameter and therefore should normally have had a lumpectomy rather than a mastectomy.

«The results of the Penumbra 3D Trial speak positively on the use of Penumbra's 3D Revascularization Device in combination with the Penumbra System aspiration devices, as well as on the use of Penumbra System aspiration devices alone,» said Donald Frei, MD, lead investigator of the study and director, NeuroInterventional Surgery at Radiology Imaging Associates / Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado.

According to lead investigator Gerald Brock, MD, of the Department of Surgery, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, «Results from this study demonstrate that long - term treatment with T - sol successfully supplements testosterone levels in the majority of recipients.

Strong results from the other arm of CoreValve's U.S. Pivotal Trial with patients at extreme risk for standard aortic valve - replacement surgery were reported in October and led to Food and Drug Administration approval for the device in this population.

Breast conserving therapy (BCT, breast conserving surgery combined with radiation therapy) is superior to mastectomy in certain types of breast cancer patients, according to results from the largest study to date, to be presented to the European Cancer Congress 2017 today (Monday).

Additional testing and biomechanical analysis of results have been performed in collaboration with graduate student Levin Sliker, Assistant Professor Mark Rentschler at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Jonathan Schoen, associate professor of surgery at University of Colorado School of Medicine.

With the advancement of surgical and radiation therapy strategies for stage 1 non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), more patients are being treated, resulting in higher survival rates, according to a study published online today in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

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.

Importantly, the survival curves for these groups did not begin to diverge until year 2 or beyond after initial surgery, and continued to widen for the entire 10 - year period, which means preliminary results from the relatively small DeCOG - SLT study — with its 3 - year median follow - up [4]-- can not be relied upon to justify changing the standard of care away from CLND.

Penfield stimulated the brain with electricity in patients undergoing epilepsy surgery, and used the results to draw a â $ œmotor homunculusâ $: a distorted representation of the human body within the brain.

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.

The use of an inter-vertebral surgery approach in combination with discreet transection injuries of the dorsolateral funiculus results in highly consistent deficits in grid - walk locomotor performance [14], [57].

WCTC 1450 AM — «New Jersey Today» with host Bert Baron — April 10, 2012 CINJ Deputy Director Edmund Lattime, PhD, professor of surgery at UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, discusses the science behind a vaccine treatment being studied at CINJ that is showing encouraging results in some pancreatic cancer patients.

Results: We identified 15 MRSA - positive individuals with 27 highly related MRSA isolates who were linked to the GP surgery, 2 of whom died with MRSA bacteremia.

No patient in the antibiotic group developed a serious infection resulting from delayed appendectomy, suggesting that the decision to delay appendectomy for uncomplicated acute appendicitis can be made with low likelihood of major complications resulting from delayed surgery.

While most participants said they were happy with their results, between 1 and 4 percent of patients reported dissatisfaction with their vision post-LASIK, and 1 to 2 percent reported dissatisfaction with the surgery itself.

Rather, they're «a result of deadly encounters with farm animals, anaphylaxis from bees, wasps or hornet stings, and dog attacks,» said Forrester, who's with Stanford University's Department of Surgery.