Even high-risk patients can benefit from aortic aneurysm repair
Minimally invasive surgery can prevent a fatal rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Mar 16, 2015
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Minimally invasive surgery can prevent a fatal rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Mar 16, 2015
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New research indicates that reducing emergency surgery for three common procedures by 10 percent could cut $1 billion in health care costs over 10 years.
Dec 19, 2014
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Four UK hospitals have achieved a huge reduction in the number of patients dying following emergency abdominal surgery, after adopting a 'care bundle' devised by patient safety specialists.
Nov 12, 2014
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Roughly 50,000 Americans are diagnosed with kidney cancer each year. Most of them have small tumors that doctors discover while screening for other health problems.
Jul 11, 2014
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have documented the safety benefits of aortic stent grafts inserted during minimally invasive surgery to repair abdominal aortic aneurysms – weaknesses ...
Jul 9, 2014
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(HealthDay)—People who undergo surgery to repair an abdominal hernia may underestimate how long their recovery will take, new research indicates.
Apr 3, 2014
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Keyhole surgery is particularly difficult, so good training for surgeons is essential. Tim Horeman has improved several aspects of this training. He has demonstrated that force and motion measurements give an objective assessment ...
Apr 2, 2014
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Vascular surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center are investigating the use of custom-designed stent grafts for the treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms—a potentially deadly enlargement of ...
Apr 1, 2014
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A screening program for abdominal aortic aneurysms, integrated into an electronic health record, dramatically reduced the number of unscreened at-risk men by more than 50 percent within 15 months, according to a Kaiser Permanente ...
Feb 10, 2014
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Using morphine to fight the pain associated with abdominal surgery may paradoxically prolong a patient's suffering, doubling or even tripling the amount of time it takes to recover from the surgical pain, according to researchers ...
Nov 12, 2013
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