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Tag: "surgery" at medical news

Improving Fertility In Patients With Cervical Cancer

A new surgery for women being treated for cervical cancer may protect fertility and stave off ovarian failure say researchers.// In the procedure, surgeons removed an ovary and transplanted it into the upper arm to preserve hormonal function in women undergoing tr...

Operating on a Beating Heart Yields Better Results For Blocked Heart Arteries

... findings of a recent study researchers say bypass surgery on a beating heart might be an effective option fo...p. Based on findings of the study researchers say surgery on a beating heart is more technically demanding for the surgeon, surgery using a heart-lung machine...

Preventing Strokes Using Less Invasive Techniques

...stent is inserted to hold the artery open. Though surgery has traditionally been the preferred method of tre...tenting procedure, whereas the recovery time after surgery can take up to a week. Thus researchers conclude on a positive note saying that in the future angio...

Indian Treatment for Iraqi Babies

...iatric cardiac physician and are getting ready for surgery on March one. "This is just a small group selected out of several thousands of children dying in Iraq due to heart complications. We have hospitals treating only adults suffering from cardiac problems but nothing for kids. The blue babies in our co...

Shorter Radiation Schedules Found To Be More Effective For Patients With Breast Cancer

...or seven weeks of radiation daily after undergoing surgery , however for most women the length of time for radiation treatment is a major inconvenience leading them to choose mastectomy instead of breast conservation. Researchers studied women who received a four-week course of radiation therapy, with an in...

Prostate Cancer Treatment Can Increase The Risk For Osteoporosis

...s spread or reduce // the risk of recurrence after surgery may be at increased risk for developing osteoporosis. The research showed men treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) after prostate cancer run a higher risk of developing the bone-thinning disease most common among women. Men who are older...

Acupunture relieves pain and improves function in knee Osteoarthritis

...ad never experienced acupuncture, had not had knee surgery in the previous 6 months, and had not used steroid or similar injections. Participants were randomly assigned to receive one of three treatments: acupuncture, sham acupuncture, or participation in a control group that followed the Arthritis Foundat...

Early Surgery For Treatment Of Epilepsy Questioned

...study is under way to determine just how effective surgery is compared to drug therapy when treating those wi... will be completely free of all seizures after the surgery say specialists. Participants will be people who have had seizures for no more than 2 years and are...

Risk Of Developing Infections High In Patients Who Suffer From Abdominal Trauma

Patients undergoing surgery for abdominal trauma, especially from gunshot woun... for developing infections // in the abdomen after surgery show results of a recent study. The records of 762 patients with abdominal trauma who underwent sur...

Androgen Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Found To Increase The Risk Of Fractures

...who receive a common therapy after prostate cancer surgery may be at higher risk for bone fractures, say researchers based on // findings of a recent study. For the study, nearly 20 percent of men treated with androgen-deprivation therapy suffered a broken bone within five years of diagnosis, compared to ab...

Steroids Effective For Treating Carpel Tunnel Syndrome

...non-surgical treatment is just as good as invasive surgery in relieving painful symptoms associated // with c... those methods fail to help, many patients undergo surgery to decompress the nerve. However, another option is to receive steroid injections to relieve symptom...

The Beneficial Effects Of Wine For Heart Disease

... of the women had survived a heart attack or heart surgery for blocked arteries. After a year, a heart tracing (electrocardiogram, also known as ECG) was taken during routine activities to test heart rate variability (HRV). HRV measures the changes in time intervals between the beats of the heart. Decreased ...

Is Surgery The Only Solution To Backache?

...e factors that hampered a quick recovery from back surgery are depression, frequent headaches, use of tobacco...with the preexisting conditions before deciding on surgery as a procedure. Links: http://www.aaos.org/wordhtml/home2.htm...

New turn in stem cell research

... process. Then inner cell masses were separated by surgery and plated onto specially coated plated that may be sterilized. Six embryonic human stem-cell lines were maintained in this serum and feeder free culture procedure. The result was derivation of a new stem cell line from human embryos under new condi...

Combination Therapy Found To Be More Effective In Treating Brain Cancer

...h the type of cancer known as glioblastoma receive surgery to remove as much of the cancer as safely possible...5 percent of the patients had previously undergone surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible without significantly affecting functioning areas of the ...

Surgery For Obesity May Need Invasive Monitoring

...res to control morbid obesity is by gastric bypass surgery that reduces the size of the stomach and allows th...gastric bypass for morbid obesity. This type of surgery leads to many dominant damaging respiratory and homodynamic changes that may be of temporary variety...

New treatment possible for drug addiction

... new treatment to deal with drug addiction through surgery in the subthalamic nucleus. Previous researches have shown that these procedures have been also effective for reducing the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease as well. The results of the studies are published in the journal Nature Neuroscience....

Epilepsy surgery to help child development

...Bethel Epilepsy Center, Germany, say that epilepsy surgery of these children may be successfully helping their cognitive development. Epilepsy surgery is done when the source of the seizures is clearly identified in the brain. Epilepsy surgery is avai...

Early test to detect kidney failure

...t of NGAL in the urine at 2 hours after the bypass surgery was the earliest predictor of acute renal failure....AL in urine and serum taken after two hours of the surgery represent early biomarkers for acute renal injury after cardiac surgery. This may be the earliest wa...

Surgery for early stage prostate cancer is better than waiting

... scientists its said that it is better// to go for surgery while in early stage of prostate cancer than to wa...also known as metastasis, gets reduced by 44% when surgery is performed early. Although after a follow up period of ten years, early prostatectomy does not see...

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