surgery 1 3

Tag: "surgery" at medical news

A new treatment for liver cancer

...n 10 per cent are suitable for conventional cancer surgery because of the nature of their tumours, the TheraSphere offers them the first real hope of survival....

Magnetic resonance angiography in clinical medicine

...c arteries).MRA is also useful in patients for who surgery is anticipated and these conditions include, tumors, aneurysms, vascular malformations, and vascular occlusions or thromboses. Furthermore, the combination of MRI and MRA within a single examination procedure will frequently avoid the need for mult...

Drooping eyelids more common in men

...y for the eye to remove tears easily. Corrective surgery involves tightening the eyelid, but this can cause problems as the eyelid also shortens horizontally with age. The researchers say the next step is to study whether men suffer more frequently from lower eyelid disorders. The Dutch study also found th...

Risk Of Developing Arthritis

...ncing work into a new type of cartilage transplant surgery aimed specifically at younger people with sports injuries. It is also funding extensive work into improving hip, knee and other joint replacemens....

Artists prone to cubital tunnel syndrome

...,” said Barry P. Simmons, professor of orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston, at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Orthopaedic Update.In this arena of professional artists, demands of excellence, precision and endurance can be costly to the body of the artist, often leading to s...

Artificial lenses- Boon to cataract patients

...f Medicine in Atlanta. But cells left behind after surgery can proliferate and cause the lens capsule to stiffen, he says. For variable focus lenses, this could be a problem. If such trails are successful, they add, however, some patients might not need to wear glasses at all - unlike most elderly people, w...

Relief from common back pain

...ise or anti-inflammatory medications. In the past, surgery such as a diskectomy in which the protruding disk... claims to have a number of benefits over invasive surgery because this is quick and painless. ...

Burden of lung disease

...ely elderly population with lung cancer – risks of surgery are greater with age and associated conditions like heart disease. Or it may be that people present with symptoms too late for the disease to be treated surgically....

Third artificial heart patient introduced

...from the Texas Heart Institute, where he underwent surgery on September 26, 2001. The AbioCor heart is a b...56 days with the device. The sixth patient died in surgery to implant the heart. Four additional implants have been approved by the Food and Drug Administratio...

Robots craft medical history

...e new world of possibilities in minimally invasive surgery (MIS).According to Computer Motion, Zeus will help decrease patient pain and trauma, and shorten convalescent periods. The company says using the Zeus system, surgeons have greater dexterity and precision. The system includes two holding instruments...

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

...te for older men undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery is rising, even though more patients than ever are...undergoing the procedure.// Coronary artery bypass surgery uses a blood vessel from another part of the body to reroute blood around narrowed or clogged arteri...

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

...tics relating to 12 hospitals carrying// out heart surgery on children from 1991 to 1995. Dr Spiegelhalter found that a hospital carrying out 120 open heart operations on children less than a year old had a mortality rate 25 per cent lower than a hospital carrying out 40 such operations. But this alone, d...

New therapy for bone cancer

...ual tumour of the bone which is usually treated by surgery or chemotherapy. However, one case in ten proves resistant to these therapies.// A new radioactive drug, samarium, was tested on 21 patients with bone cancer, ranging in age from 15 to 50. All had failed to benefit from other treatments and had mul...

Kidney cancer on the rise

... be successfully treated, and survival rates after surgery can be as high as 94 per cent. But once the cancer has spread, the chance of treating the disease successfully drops considerably. Research says the rise in incidence of kidney cancer is concerning, but can be countered if people adopt lifestyle chan...

Awakening call for fall prevention

...lacement after a fracture than younger people. And surgery on a broken bone might even require the insertion of plates or screws. The best way to avoid all these complications is to do your utmost to prevent a fall from occurring....

FDA Approves New Anti-Clotting Drug

... reducing the risk of blood clots after orthopedic surgery for hip fracture, hip replacement, and knee replacement. Arixtra is the first synthetic anticoagulant indicated for use in these types of surgeries.// The formation of clots in the deep veins of the legs is common after these surgeries and can lead ...

Heart Surgery Is Getting Safer for the Old

... to researchers, the risk of undergoing open heart surgery for patients in their mid-eighties and beyond seem...g to Dr. Todd Rosengart, an associate professor of surgery at Southeastern University ,open heart surgery, if indicated, is safe and will improve quality of li...

Heart bypass-mental decline link

...by many heart-bypass patients several months after surgery may not be caused by the heart-lung machine used i...sthesia, used in both procedures, or the trauma of surgery itself might affect mental functioning....

Statins reduce risks for angioplasty patients

...rs to open clogged coronary arteries without major surgery by inserting a tiny balloon to the narrowest point and inflating the balloon. But 3 of every 5 patients who go through the procedure will suffer a major setback within 4 years. Some patients suffer heart attacks, others need repeat angioplasty or byp...

Cholesterol Drug Helps After Angioplasty

... suffer a heart attack or will need to have bypass surgery or another angioplasty within five years." In rep... another heart procedure, either open heart bypass surgery or another angioplasty. * Diabetic patients on fluvastatin experienced a 47 percent reduction in th...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10