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…
Joseph Ramagnulo, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Associate Professor Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses abdominal pain that cannot be diagnosed and a study he is coducting…
Jacob G. Robison, MD, Professor of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses reversal of flow, a technique where particles that occur at the time of balloon…
Jacob G. Robison, MD, Professor of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses abdominal aortic aneurysm repair using stent grafts. These devices must be used in an…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The percentage of cardiac surgery patients given blood transfusions varies widely from center to center, but a conservative use of transfusions is not…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rates of acute rejection of lung transplants are not improved when sirolimus is added to the immunosuppressive regimen instead of azathioprine, a multicenter…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Trauma patients transfused with ABO-compatible plasma have a higher rate of complications such as sepsis and renal failure than patients given ABO-identical plasma,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Whether appendectomy for acute appendicitis is performed within 6 hours or more than 12 hours after admission has no clinically meaningful effect on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with pulmonary hyperinflation due to advanced emphysema have a modest improvement in lung function and exercise tolerance after placement of endobronchial valves…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When gynecologic surgery is performed laparoscopically, the occurrence of thromboembolism is quite rare, even in patients with gynecologic malignancy, researchers report in the…