NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Varicocelectomy leads to significant improvements in sperm count and motility, regardless of surgical technique (i.e., high ligation, inguinal or subinguinal approach), a meta-analytic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Kidney transplant recipients who are inoculated with autologous marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have less risk of organ rejection and of opportunistic infection…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Total extraperitoneal inguinal hernioplasty (TEP) is associated with less chronic pain and higher patient satisfaction compared to the Lichtenstein open surgical repair, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intraoperative hypothermia to less than 35 C more than doubles the risk of surgical site infections after trauma laparotomy, according to a report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a small randomized study of patients with infected necrotizing pancreatitis, minimally invasive endoscopic transgastric necrosectomy was associated with a lower risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – By accelerating recovery of gastrointestinal function, use of the opioid receptor antagonist alvimopan is associated with reduced mortality and morbidity following bowel resection,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The success of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for small renal tumors is strongly dependent on tumor size, according to a study in the April…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a randomized study, rates of bacteriuria were significantly higher in laboring women with epidurals who had intermittent bladder catheterization relative to those…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The reduced risk of developing invasive breast cancer with adjuvant tamoxifen therapy after lumpectomy and radiation for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antibiotic prophylaxis based on rectal swab cultures in men undergoing transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsies (TRUSP) reduces the incidence of post-procedure infectious complications. Furthermore,…