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…
Jacob G. Robison, MD, Professor of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses renal artery stenting and the debate around prophylactic renal artery stenting. He also discusses…
Joseph Ramagnulo, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Associate Professor Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses pancreatic stenting in high risk patients who undergo ERCP. This procedure reduces…
Joseph Ramagnulo, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Associate Professor Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses different types of cases requiring sphincterotomy to reduce pain. Related ReadingMeasuring episodic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Even when small, nonfunctioning pancreatic endocrine tumors are likely to be aggressive, and should be removed when they are discovered incidentally, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with both carotid and coronary stenosis, a percutaneous approach to treating both sites — simultaneously or within a close period —…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Not all abdominal gunshot wounds should be treated with an immediate laparotomy, trauma surgeons from Massachusetts General Hospital conclude based on their 11-year…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When a defective systemic atrioventricular valve needs to be replaced in patients who have corrected transposition of the great arteries, it should be…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Roughly one-third of venous thromboembolism (VTE) events that occur in patients who’ve had surgery for cancer happen after they leave the hospital, with…
NEW YORK – Procedure times are longer and complications more frequent with single-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy than with the “classic” 4-port technique, an Oregon team has found. Dr. Paul…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Uterine artery embolization (UAE) is a “satisfactory alternative” to hysterectomy or myomectomy for fibroids, according to the long-term results of a randomized comparison…
