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Genetic Disease Causes hearing loss

...effectiveness of surgical resection, several small operative series indicate that complete resection of ELSTs can be curative, can alleviate vestibular symptomatology, and can be performed with hearing preservation and minimal morbidity. Therefore, in patients with hearing and imaging evidence of an ELST, sur...

Hyperthermia With Chemotherapy Improves Sarcoma Healing

...py and of local, deep hyperthermia, in addition to operative removal of the sarcoma. This combined therapy has been applied already to a large number of patients in advance of surgery. The well respected study results from the Clinical Co-operation Group Hyperthermia, which has existed since 1999 between the ...

Doctors Remove Tumour from Heart in a Rare Surgery

... "It has been technically challenging and creative operative procedures for us. The chance of the tumour recurring is less but cannot be ruled out because it is cancerous in nature. We will, however, put Ram through chemo and radio therapy." Cardiac surgeon Murali Manohar, who coordinated the surgery, said t...

Robotic Surgery May Improve Survival Rate For Prostate Cancer Patients

... precise movements of micro-instruments within the operative field. The magnified, three-dimensional view the surgeon experiences enables him to perform precise surgery in complex procedures, such as radical prostatectomy, through small surgical incisions....

Alcoholics by All Means Should Avoid Stress During Early Abstinence

...logical and physical challenging stimuli – such as operative traumata, hyperthermia, cold-pressor and public-speaking stress – have shown a deficient HPA reactivity in abstinent alcoholics. However, none of these studies has established a time course of HPA failure during abstinence or has shown the time neede...

Can Our Hospitals Cope In A Disaster?

...njured patients would not have immediate access to operative care and 34-70 per cent would have delayed access to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) bed in Australasia,” says Dr Joseph. The estimates were measured against preparedness levels set for hospitals in the United States. “We believe that the cumulative...

'Alarming Rise in Caesarean Births a Cause of Concern'

...h Caesarean Section. There is a diminished vaginal operative delivery and a four to six fold increase in Caesarean births, “ he pointed out. Caesarean section was more common in private hospitals in India. Doctors were driven by commercial reasons as the procedure cost more as compared to natural birth, he ...

Hospital Errors Rise 3 Percent -- HealthGrades Patient-safety Study

... the greatest increase in incident rates were post operative sepsis (34.28 percent), post-operative respiratory failure (18.70 percent) and selected infections due to medical care (12.23 percent). · Patient-safety incidents with the highest incidence rates were decubitus ulcer, failure to rescue and post-oper...

Two New Anesthesia Positions Promise to Ease Surgery Queue

...s, the chairman of the Ontario Medical Association operative anesthesia committee and president and CEO of The Ottawa Hospital has exclaimed the move as a positive one. Though it might not be as cost-effective, yet he believed, the strategy would add to the efficient functioning of the hospitals. Dr. Homer ...

Inhaled Anesthetics Accelerate the Onset of Neurodegenerative Diseases Like Alzheimer's

...might follow even small changes in the care of the operative patient." Mice don't naturally get Alzheimer's, so the animals in this study were genetically engineered to express the human protein responsible, called amyloid beta. "These mice develop a syndrome with many features of the human disease," explain...

C-Reactive Protein Induces Hypertension

...n II activity. "Whether these same processes are operative in humans is yet to be determined," said Dr. Vongpatanasin. "We are also pursuing follow-up studies to further understand better how CRP causes the high blood pressure in the mice." The ultimate goal of the research is to discover how CRP interacts...

A Young Girl Loses Her Leg Due to Surgeon’s Carelessnes

...he girl. Laxmipriya was operated in a free polio operative camp organised jointly by the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan and a Gujarat-based non-governmental organisation PNR Society at the Jajpur government hospital. Source-IANS PRI...

HIV Patients Have Increased Risk of Pneumonia, Death Following Surgery

...ould not have been treated previously, and undergo operative interventions in lieu of medical therapies for certain conditions,” the authors write. Michael A. Horberg, M.D., M.A.S., and colleagues at Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program–Northern California, Oakland, studied surgical outcomes in 332 HIV-inf...

Spacer Insertion May Offer Less Invasive Option for Lumbar Problems

... role as a less costly alternative to conventional operative procedures when conservative treatments have failed or in situations in which patients are unwilling to consider more invasive surgery. One spacer, X Stop, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in patients age 50 and older wit...

Breathing Exercises help cardiac patients to breeze through surgery

...ntervention with a higher risk of developing post operative lung complications like those with diabetic histor...h by pass surgeries becoming more routine and post operative lung related complications just as common, this discovery surely comes as a breakthrough for cardiac...

Mathematics And Beauty? You Bet!

...he data to create a "virtual lab" in which various operative strategies can be tested. The last step is to play back to the patient the outcomes of the various strategies. The second step in the paradigm requires modeling and solving partial differential equations (PDEs), which are equations that represent ch...

Valve Disease Study Suggests New Public Health Concern

... from the surgery as much as younger patients, and operative risks in elderly patients over the 16-year study period declined considerably, says Dr. Enriquez-Sarano, an author of that study. “We hope our data will generate further research to unravel why some people get valve diseases with aging and some oth...

World’s First Pediatric Laparoscopic Liver Surger

... pumped into the patient's abdomen to increase the operative area and improve visualization of the tumor. The surgeon then makes two to four small incisions on the right side of the rib cage to accommodate the laparoscope, a tiny "telescope" equipped with a camera, and other specialized surgical instruments. T...

Nano-sized inhaled particles traverse quickly from nose to brain

...nt olfactory systems, this pathway is likely to be operative in humans," the authors conclude. Source: Eureka Alert...

Mornings Are the Best Time to Induce Labor

...or in the morning required less often instrumental operative vaginal births and also had a lower duration of labor....

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