NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of artificial colloids for intravascular volume expansion is associated with greater risk of acute kidney injury and impaired coagulation than is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – During the first year after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), patency rates are similar for radial artery grafts and saphenous vein grafts, study…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Restricting fluids excessively during major abdominal surgery, even using an individualized “goal-directed fluid strategy,” increases the risk of hypovolemia and impairs organ function…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The current U.S. system for allocating donated livers – which is based on the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score – is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After brain death in potential lung donors, a “lung protective” strategy can increase the odds that the lungs will be viable for transplant,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Initiating mediastinal nodal staging of suspected lung cancer with endosonography, followed by surgical staging (mediastinoscopy) if needed, improves the detection of metastases and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite declining use, perineal radical prostatectomy (PRP) yields outcomes that are equal to, or better than, those of retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP) and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Outcomes of cryoablation of small renal masses are similar whether the procedure is performed surgically or percutaneously, according the results of a meta-analysis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The likelihood that a core needle biopsy diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) will be upstaged to invasive breast cancer on final…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In premature neonates with inguinal hernia, the risk of incarceration is doubled when repair is delayed beyond 40 weeks post-conceptual age, according to…