A new University of Michigan Health System study shows a rising risk for blood clots among the large and growing group of patients having outpatient surgery. Once a setting for the young and mostly healthy, today more than 60 percent of procedures are done on an outpatient basis, including cancer operations, orthopedic surgeries and plastic surgeries.
Robot-assisted surgery is now both more common and far more successful than radical “open” surgery to treat prostate cancer in the United States, according to a new Henry Ford Hospital study published in the current issue of the medical journal European Urology.
UT Southwestern Medical Center has performed more than 300 lung transplants in recent decades, and Michael Young represents a remarkable success story.
Ten years ago, a landmark clinical trial in Canada demonstrated the unequivocal effectiveness of brain surgeries for treating uncontrolled epilepsy, but since then the procedure has not been widely adopted—in fact, it is dramatically underutilized according to a new study from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
As a lineman, Adam Bienstock never got the attention and adulation that goes with scoring a touchdown. But as a member of the Ithaca College football team, he got the opportunity to do much, much more.
The American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) are pleased to announce that Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery (FPMRS), the official journal of the AUGS, has been selected for indexing in MEDLINE, the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database. LWW, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, is the publisher Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery.
Forehead and scalp of victim of workplace injury successfully reattached through rare microsurgery procedure.
Researchers find that early detection of blunt cerebrovascular injury after trauma, and the use of screening protocol to detect these injuries, may prevent potentially life-threatening stroke.
The odds that someone undergoing spinal surgery at a particular hospital will have to be readmitted to the same hospital within 30 days is an important measure of the quality of care patients receive. That’s because these “hospital readmission rates” often reflect problems like hospital-acquired infections or complications from surgery.
Research shows that in the U.S., lumbar spondylosis is associated with the lowest quality-adjusted life year health state compared to other common chronic disease states.
Pediatric and Developmental Pathology is the premier journal dealing with the pathology of disease from conception through adolescence. It covers the spectrum of disorders developing in-utero (including embryology, placentology, and teratology), gestational and perinatal diseases, and all diseases of childhood. For more information about the journal or society, please visit: http://www.pedpath.org.
Kidney cancer patients who had only their tumor removed had better survival than patients who had their entire kidney removed, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Despite the well-documented benefits of walking after surgery, some patients are reluctant to make an attempt even with the encouragement of medical staff. Loyola University Health System researchers reported these findings at the prestigious 38th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons in Baltimore.
Every year, more than 100,000 Americans will need a life-saving organ transplant, yet in 2011 fewer than 22,000 transplants took place in the United States. In New York only 18 percent of New Yorkers who are eligible to donate are registered as organ donors, in stark contrast to the national average of 42 percent.
The relative risk of blood loss during corrective spine surgery in children appears linked to the underlying condition causing the spinal deformity, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
Robotic surgery permitted surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System to transplant a kidney into a morbidly obese Chicago man -- who had survived 17 years on dialysis waiting for the procedure.
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have carried out a study to validate the utility of new tumor classification systems for staging and predicting relapse-free survival for patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) and who may be candidates for surgery.
A study found that compared to traditional open surgery, robotic surgery for removal of the bladder due to cancer had fewer deaths and complications, but was more expensive. This is one of the first and largest national studies addressing robotic surgical outcomes for bladder cancer surgery.
Women Derive Less Benefit From Elective Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Details of long-term study compares surgery results for men and women
Patients undergoing cosmetic liposuction and/or abdominoplasty ("tummy tuck") procedures report significant improvements in self-esteem and quality of life, according to a study in the April issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
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