http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—Non-critically ill hospitalized patients who develop hyperglycemia after total parenteral nutrition (TPN) are more than five times more likely to die in the hospital, according to research published online Dec. 6 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-tpn-linked-hyperglycemia-ups-death-non-critically.html Diabetes Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:32:35 EST news276442337 There has been an increase in total knee arthroplasty (TKA; knee replacement) procedures over the past 20 years that has been driven by both an increase in the number of Medicare enrollees and increase in per capita utilization, according to a study in the September 26 issue of JAMA. There has also been a decrease in hospital length of stay for TKA, but increased hospital readmission rates and increased rates of infectious complications. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-usage-outcomes-knee-procedures-medicare.html Surgery Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:00:01 EST news267807463 A team of researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute defined a new treatment for a potentially fatal lung disease in patients with a primary immunodeficiency known as common variable immunodeficiency (CVID).The findings are published in the Journal of Clinical Immunology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-immunodeficient-patients-secondary-lung-disease.html Immunology Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:31:01 EST news265548650 Two recent studies in the July issues of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) looked at surgical site infections and hyperglycemia, the technical term for high blood glucose, or high blood sugar. According to the first study "Relationship of Hyperglycemia and Surgical-Site Infection in Orthopaedic Surgery," high blood sugar is a concern during the post-traumatic and post-operative period and it may help to preoperatively identify a population of patients with musculoskeletal injuries who are at significant risk for infectious complications. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-high-blood-sugar-obesity-surgical.html Surgery Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:56:21 EST news262454173 (HealthDay) -- It remains unclear whether the benefits of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing outweigh the harms, but evidence suggests that men with a longer life expectancy may benefit from testing, according to a provisional clinical opinion from the American Society of Clinical Oncology published online July 16 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-benefits-prostate-specific-antigen-unclear.html Cancer Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:20:01 EST news262003483 Obese patients who need to have their appendixes removed fare better after a minimally invasive surgical procedure rather than an open operation, according to a new study published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-obese-appendectomy-patients-complications-minimally.html Surgery Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:00:01 EST news259948283 Results of a study presented today at EULAR 2012, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, suggest that the newly developed RABBIT Risk Score, which calculates the risk of serious infections in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who are treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor drugs (anti-TNFs) or conventional disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) is a valid and effective tool for rheumatologists to predict risk of serious infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-rabbit-score-rheumatologists-patients-high.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:40:01 EST news258347916 Elderly patients who undergo thyroid surgery are at a much higher risk than their younger counterparts for serious cardiac, pulmonary and infectious complications, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). The study findings challenge long-held beliefs that thyroidectomy carries the same risk level of postoperative complications for both older and younger patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-elderly-thyroid-surgery-patients-postoperative.html Surgery Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:39:27 EST news252225557