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) – Cardiac allografts might function better when brain-dead organ donors are treated with low-dose dopamine, researchers report. They say the approach — already known…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In healthy volunteers, prothrombin complex concentrate reverses the anticoagulant effect of rivaroxaban. However, it does not alter the action of dabigatran, Dutch researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Bariatric surgery and its associated weight loss significantly improve the cardiovascular risk profile of obese patients, according to findings published in the August…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among pediatric patients undergoing surgical repair of congenital heart defects, the use of milrinone to reduce the risk of low cardiac output syndrome…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Split liver transplantation results in “excellent” patient and graft survival for both pediatric and adult patients, according to the authors of a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Thrombosis occurs in about one in 10 children undergoing cardiac surgery cases, with serious complications in over a quarter of those cases, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a meta-analysis of randomized trials indicate that percutaneous coronary intervention for left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease is associated with less…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research supports current clinical guidance to perform partial nephrectomy (PN) when possible in patients with clinically organ-confined renal cell tumors 7 centimeters…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The diagnostic yield of endobronchial biopsy is improved when specimens are obtained using a cryoprobe rather than conventional forceps, a German team reports.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A large increase in the number of lymph nodes evaluated during surgery for colon cancer — a quality improvement metric– has not had…
