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Spinal cord bridge bypasses injury to restore mobility

The body's spinal cord is like a super highway of nerves. When an injury occurs, the body's policing defenses put up a roadblock in the form of a scar to prevent further injury, but it stops all neural traffic from moving forward. Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Drexel University and the University of Arkansas bypassed this roadblock in the spinal cord. First, the re...

For super-obese patients, duodenal switch beats gastric bypass

In the first large, single-institution series directly comparing weight-loss outcomes in super-obese patients, researchers from the University of Chicago found that a newer operation, the duodenal switch, produced substantially better weight-loss outcomes than the standard operation, the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. In the October issue of the Annals of Surgery, the researchers report that t...

Bypassing eggs, flu vaccine grown in insect cells shows promise

An experimental flu vaccine made in insect cells ?not in eggs, where flu vaccines currently available in the United States are grown ?is safe and as effective as conventional vaccines in protecting people against the flu, according to results published in the April 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Removing eggs from the flu vaccine manufacturing process is one o...

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Will wireless Internet bypass the central city?

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Bypass Heart Surgery Performed Without General Anesthesia

A minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) procedure was performed at Pittsburgh while the patient was awake. The operation was done under thoracic epidural anesthesia. This approach may help in discharging the patient early from the hospital. Dr. Zenati from the team of doctors who performed the surgery said that patients who are operated in this way may not have to go to the in...

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

The survival rate 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 arteries in the heart. A buildup of substances such as fats or plaque causes this narrowing, known as atherosclerosis. <b...

Heart bypass-mental decline link

Tens of thousands of bypass patients suffer mental decline after bypass surgery, including difficulty thinking and remembering. One leading theory is that the heart-lung machine is the culprit. But according to a new study,// the loss of mental sharpness suffered by many heart-bypass patients several months after surgery may not be caused by the heart-lung machine used in the operating room after...

Cardiac bypass seems to be favoring men more than women

The functioning of different organs in our body is dependent upon a good blood supply. Heart is the organ, which is involved in the supply// of blood to different parts of the body. The heart is being supplied blood by the coronary arteries. However, if there is a narrowing or clogging in the blood vessel that supplies blood to the heart, the region of heart being supplied by the vessel...

Screening bypasses radical breast surgery

According to researchers at the Britain University, breast screening is linked with a fall of almost half in the number of mastectomies. A team working for the leading charity Cancer Research UK// has analyzed data from a group of 55,000 women in Florence, Italy, aged between 55 and 65. They find that following the introduction of a breast screening programme, the rate of mastectomy - removal of...

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Symmetry™ Bypass Connector

Description:Allows surgeons to successfully complete coronary artery bypass without cross clamping or side biting. Saphaneous vein grafts may be attached to the aorta without sutures....
Company:St. Jude Medical, Inc.

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Cypher Sirolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent Had Similar Results to Bypass Surgery and Better Outcomes Than Bare Metal Stents in Subgroup Analysis of Diabetic Patients With Multivessel Coronary Disease

BARCELONA, Spain, May 22, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- A three-yearfollow-up subset analysis presented today as a late-breakingclinical trial at EuroPCR 2007 showed that the CYPHER(R)Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent had results comparable to coronaryartery bypass grafting (CABG or bypass surgery) and better outcomesthan bare metal stents (BMS) in diabetic patients with blockages intw...

New Cardioprotective Drug Could Provide Boost For Post-Bypass Surgery Heart Health

SOMERSET, N.J., April 5, 2007-- Stent thrombosis,restenosis and lifelong prescriptions. Millions of patients havediscovered that the drug-coated stents used as part of their heartoperations may be having more of a detrimental effect on theirhealth than medical experts have ever publicly acknowledged. Recentarticles in medical journals suggest that unless patients whoreceive drug-eluting...

Cypher Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent Had Similar Results to Bypass Surgery in Long-Term Study of Patients With Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Disease

NEW ORLEANS, March 26, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Three-yearfollow-up data presented today at the of Cardiology's 56th AnnualScientific Session (ACC.07) showed that the CYPHER(R)Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent had results comparable to coronaryartery bypass grafting (CABG or bypass surgery) in patients withblockages in two or more vessels, one of the most complex patientpopulations...

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