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Recovery After Heart Transplantation

... Patients are at risk of two major problems after surgery -- rejection of the donor heart and a condition called cardiac vasculopathy. This is where the arteries in the transplanted heart start to narrow, and they narrow throughout the whole length of the arteries. It’s the major cause of death after the fi...

The Reason For Loss Of Appetite After Gastric Bypass

...ound that in severely obese patients who have the surgery show significant early declines in levels of a hor... had gastric bypass, average ghrelin levels before surgery were 355 picograms per milliliter compared to post-operative levels of 246 picograms per milliliter....

Computer-Assisted Knee Surgery

...by boomers. Arthritis followed by knee replacement surgery could become the norm //for many of the 78 million...ad a solution for Baroli -- computer-assisted knee surgery that can last up to 30 years. Standard surgery usually lasts less than 20 years. "Instead of guessi...

Lycopene Can Help In Preventing Prostate Cancer

...s diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. He had surgery to remove his prostate, but not before helping scientists study lycopene's effect on cancer cells. While waiting six weeks before surgery, Lofgren took lycopene pills and researchers are now comparing his cancer cells before and after taking the lyco...

Survival Of Colon Cancer Patients

According to new research chemotherapy after surgery may not be better than surgery alone in the long run for colon cancer patients. // However, researchers say, the study looked at ch...

The Options For Relieving Chest Pain In the Elderly Questioned

...se on medication , but those treated with invasive surgery reached these benefits earlier. Patients treated with surgery appeared to benefit in other ways, as well. Medically treated patients required more antianginal dru...

Alcohol Consumption After Heart Surgery Questioned

...f alcohol may cut the rate of reblockage following surgery to open clogged arteries.// Researchers evaluated 225 men after they had undergone a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), a procedure to open blocked arteries with a stent. Less traumatic than bypass surgery, a stent opens the arter...

Asthma Patients With Sinusitis More Difficult To Treat

... of asthmatic patients also required primary sinus surgery and additional sinus surgeries compared to patients without asthma. Asthmatics failed primary sinus surgery more frequently and required a second surgery. Researchers say they do not know the exact reason fo...

The Benefits Of Chemotherapy For Women With Ovarian Cancer

...nce eight in 10 patients are adequately treated by surgery alone , thus doctors say that giving all stage I patients chemotherapy would lead to unnecessary adverse events with no survival benefit for the majority of patients. For the study researchers analyzed data from 13 trials. They found patients who re...

Hormone therapy may affect heart attack severity in women

...a and Jacob Vinten-Johansen, Ph.D., a professor or surgery at Emory University. ...

Fixing the way to a Man’s Heart

...tem cell therapy is performed without the need for surgery and is meant to help the sickest of heart disease patients first. ...

The Link Between Obesity And Breast Cancer

...arly-stage breast cancer treated with conservation surgery and radiation therapy. The five-year survival rates for normal-weight and overweight women were 92 percent, while the rate for obese women was 88 percent. Five-year rates of advanced disease were 7 percent for normal-weight women, 6 percent for overw...

Effective Diagnosis Of Spinal Cord Injuries

...ada MRI technology could determine //if performing surgery would benefit patients. They say they found that trauma-induced spinal cord compression on MRIs predict a poorer neurological recovery. Surgery can relieve spinal cord compression. However, unless surgeons are fairly certain the procedure will benef...

Another Treatment Option for Benign Tumors

...gressive benign tumors that had progressed despite surgery and/or conventional radiation. Thus researchers s...ents with benign tumors who are not candidates for surgery or whose tumors are not amendable to surgery ....

Reconstituted Blood Better For Young Hearts

Young children who undergo heart surgery fare better if they receive reconstituted blood ra...mpared results for 200 infants who underwent heart surgery using the heart-lung bypass machine. About half received whole blood during the operation, and the o...

Weight Reduction Surgery Also Treats Metabolic Syndrome

Undergoing weight reduction surgery can successfully treat metabolic syndrome in most ...ndrome and that losing weight via weight-reduction surgery is an effective treatment....

Before Weight Loss Surgery One Should Get Tested for Bacteria

People who are considering weight loss surgery should probably be tested to see if they carry com... bacteria impacts people undergoing gastric bypass surgery a weight loss operation in which food is directed past most of the intestinal tract . Researchers a...

Drug Resistance Questioned in Patients With Chronic Sinusitis

...line treatment for chronic sinus infections before surgery is considered. However, they say little data exist on the appropriateness of this prescription. Researchers studied results of 90 adult patients over seven years and about 2.5 microbiological sinus cultures was taken from each person every 157 days ...

The Dangers Of Sleep Apnea

...s resulting from anesthesia administered // during surgery . Sleep apnea is a condition in which patients st...ight polysomnography should ideally be done before surgery takes place....

The Beneficial Effect Of Red Wine

...ith lung cancer and 187 patients requiring routine surgery between 1999 and 2000. The majority of the patients were men in their early 60s. Patients were asked about their diet, smoking habits, occupation, and the type and quantity of alcohol they drank each day. They were asked to specify if they drank red,...

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