Sentences with phrase «years after my surgery»

The surgery came one year after surgery to her left knee and two years after surgery to her right knee.

But nowadays, your gynaecologist might tell you to go ahead and try for another baby just slightly a year after your surgery.

In a study of 78 children whose doctors had recommended tonsillectomies to treat sleep - disordered breathing and 27 who were scheduled for other kinds of surgery, Chervin's group found that not only did the tonsil kids have a higher incidence of ADHD than the control group but that a year after the surgery their behavior and concentration had significantly improved.

To assess the relative effectiveness of the two techniques, outcomes were compared between sides one year after surgery.

The study examined patients by means of a metabolic chamber before and up to two years after surgery.

The researchers found that patients treated with deep brain stimulation survived an average of 6.3 years after the surgery, versus 5.7 years for the non-DBS patients after the date they might have gotten surgery based on their match to a surgery patient — a difference of eight months.

To address the possibility that some exacerbations might have been missed because participants either moved out of state or died without coming to a hospital, the team focused on a group of 524 patients for whom some sort of emergency room visit or hospitalization was recorded in the databases during the third year after surgery.

Five years after surgery, 140 patients were still alive, with an absolute five - year survival rate of 39 %.

«To put the risks in perspective, if 100 patients had a partial knee rather than a total knee replacement there would be one fewer death and three more re-operations in the first four years after surgery.»

People likely to have had high concentrations of vitamin D in their bodies had a far better chance of being alive and cancerfree 5 years after surgery for early - stage lung cancer than did people who probably carried little of the vitamin when they underwent surgery.

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.

By receiving transplants of bone marrow cells along with the new kidney, four of five transplant patients with end - stage renal disease were able to stop taking immunosuppressive drugs within about one year after surgery.

71 percent repigmentation was maintained in 45 segmental vitiligo lesions five years after surgery.

When exploring this database, an international team led by Simone Albisinni, MD and Roland van Velthoven, MD, PhD, of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, found that laparoscopic radical cystectomy can lead to reliable cancer control even many years after surgery.

In the two years after surgery, only 11 percent needed an ED visit or hospital admission in each year.

One year after surgery, 25 percent of patients in the intervention group said that they were no longer smoking, compared to eight percent in the comparison group.

Now, about 75 percent of adults are alive three years after surgery, and children's odds are even better.

The improvement remained stable through two and five years after surgery.

The new results show lasting benefits of the brief intervention, increasing patients» chances of being nonsmokers one year after surgery.

«Our study suggests that follow - up with bariatric specialists more than 5 years after surgery, rather than with specialists with no bariatric expertise, can decrease long - term anemia risk.

This was especially so during the first year after surgery, when 46 percent of patients experienced a complication, most commonly pneumonia and surgical site infections.

The study looked at 2,980 postmenopausal women with DCIS in 14 countries, who were either given anastrozole or tamoxifen for five years after surgery.

«The long - term risk of heart attack was insignificant, but risk of blood clots in the lung remained for years after surgery to replace a hip or knee damaged by osteoarthritis.»

Dr. David Metz, a gastroenterologist at the University of Pennsylvania who conducted a 2005 literature review on liver transplant for neuroendocrine tumor metastases, said survival is variable: «Some recur in a year; others, a few years after surgery.»

The study showed that no patients who had been brought to hospital unconscious, who had not been independent before the trauma, or who had used anticoagulants were alive at one year after the surgery.

Effect of fetal neural transplants in patients with Huntington's disease 6 years after surgery: a long - term follow - up study.

Then, horrifyingly, a year after the surgery, a major difference appeared.

Experience now shows approximately 20 percent of these patients will regain weight within a few years after the surgery, due to the stretching of... More...

There was also variation based on histology, with the highest rate of local recurrence at about a year after surgery seen in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST), followed by myxofibrosarcoma; both those types saw persistently elevated rates compared to other subtypes out beyond 5 years.

Only 44 percent of breast cancer patients with a high microvessel count, low nm23 and low E-cadherin levels are alive and disease free 14 years after surgery.

Success rates with living kidney donors (around 70 percent graft survival five years after surgery) exceed those using cadaveric donors (58 percent).

Of particular interest is a gene known as SPARCL1, which can accurately predict whether a seemingly localized tumor will return and spread within a few years after surgery.

Whilst this often extends the hospital stay, it also has measurable effects on physical fitness lasting years after surgery.

A year after surgery, I had so much energy and was happy to feel satisfied after eating small portions.

Dr. Juan Pablo Zambrano, an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said a downside of stent insertion is the need to take blood - thinning drugs for at least a year after surgery.

In terms of long - ranging undesired outcomes, Dr. Lee says a patient should still be aware of leaking, capsular contracture and ALCL — all of which can develop in 5 or 10 years after surgery.

All patients received baseline lymph flow measurements before surgery and periodic follow - up measurements for at least one year after surgery.

On December 12, 2012, a year after the surgery that removed part of my colon and half of my liver, I was declared cancer free.

In the 1 year after surgery, blood sugars dropped in half, but fasting insulin (a marker of insulin resistance) dropped 73 %.

Five to 10 years after surgery, some patients experience stiffness, joint breakage or dislocation, and recurrent pain.

Two years after my surgery I found myself incredibly depressed and on the brink of suicide.

The most important finding was that among 892 patients who had their thyroid tumors removed, none had any spread of the cancer during the 20 years after the surgery.

Some of these surgical effects take a long time to develop, and symptoms may only occur many years after surgery.

It was three years after my surgery before I learned about natural progesterone and began using it.

However, teens need to have their bone density checked annually for at least 10 years after surgery to make sure it's adequate, says Dr. Inge, who is currently recruiting teens for a 10 - year study of bariatric surgery patients.

During the first few years after my surgery, I ran my medications through my insurance policy to take advantage of the coverage they provided.

Coronary patients with companion animals are four times less likely to die within the first year after surgery than patients without them.

Your vet may also recommend spot checking your pet's urine every other month or so, for the first year after surgery, to monitor and to try to detect any urinary tract infections early.

Eleven years after surgery and still going strong.

For a year after her surgery from the pyometra a big dog jumped my fence and broke 3 ribs and punctured her lungs pulled her eye out she was a mess.