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) – 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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The characteristic loss of facial fat in many patients being treated for HIV infection can be effectively rectified with autologous fat transplantation or…
