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) – The effectiveness of gastric variceal obturation for controlling gastric variceal bleeding is not improved with the addition of non-selective beta-blocker therapy, a Taiwanese…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Discontinuation of aspirin within 5 days of combined coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and valve surgery is associated with an increased risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intraoperative complications are similar whether staging of endometrial cancer is performed laparoscopically or by laparotomy, but laparoscopy has the advantage when it comes…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Methylprednisolone does not improve outcomes in newborns undergoing cardiac surgery, and it may increase the risk of infection in some of those infants,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients on beta-blockers who undergo surgery are nearly twice as likely to experience adverse events in the following months if beta-blockers are discontinued,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The adverse effects of intraoperative blood transfusions are dose-dependent, and even relatively small amounts may worsen outcomes, according to a report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contrary to traditional thinking, endarterectomy for carotid stenosis can be performed safely in patients with a history of cervical radiation therapy, and carotid…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While observational data indicate that closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) is better than medical therapy in preventing stroke recurrence, the results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with significant mitral valve regurgitation who are not considered candidates for surgery, catheter-based mitral leaflet repair with the MitraClip device (Abbott…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infusion of bone marrow-derived stem cells after selective portal vein embolization (PVE) was associated with better outcomes of extended right hepatectomy in a…
