Robotic surgery represents the latest advancement in minimally invasive surgery, utilizing small incisions for procedures that once required large abdominal or thoracic openings. This technique offers the same…
In this episode of “Newsworthy Stories,” Jacqueline Jimenez speaks with Bohdan Pomahac, MD, a leading plastic surgeon at Yale New Haven Hospital, and Robert Chelsea, the first African-American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For localized renal tumors, partial nephrectomy confers a survival advantage and a lower risk of severe chronic kidney disease (CKD) after surgery, relative…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – During non-trauma-related gastrointestinal and biliary tract surgery, use of an impervious plastic wound edge protector significantly cuts the risk of surgical site infections…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The vast majority of grade 4 and 5 blunt liver injuries can be successfully managed without surgery, according to a look back at…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to cholecystectomy, percutaneous gallbladder drainage for acute cholecystitis is associated with longer recovery, higher morbidity and a trend toward lower survival, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Dyspnea in patients with malignant pleural effusion is relieved to a similar degree with use of either indwelling pleural catheters (IPCs) or chest…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using local anesthesia and fluoroscopic guidance is a simplified and effective means of transfemoral aortic valve replacement (TAVR), using the SAPIEN or newer…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active surveillance (“watchful waiting”) of small renal masses offers short term results equivalent to those with immediate surgery, researchers from UK report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although liver transplantation for acute liver failure (ALF) still has a high early mortality, outcomes in Europe have improved over 2 decades, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) prompts weight loss in most severely obese children and adolescents, Saudi Arabian researchers report in an April 16th on-line…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Three years after a group of women with stress urinary incontinence were treated with transobturator tension-free vaginal tape (TO-TVT), roughly three-quarters felt the…