In obese prostate cancer patients, robotic-assisted surgery to remove the prostate reduces the risk of blood loss and prolonged hospital stays, a Loyola Medicine study has found.
May 20, 2016
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Aortic stenosis (AS), the narrowing of the aortic valve opening which restricts blood flow to the aorta, afflicts nearly 1.5 million people in the United States, with approximately 500,000 of them suffering severe aortic ...
Apr 4, 2016
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A move by The Ottawa Hospital to promote less invasive surgeries for women with severe gynecological problems has sped up patient recovery, led to fewer complications and saved the hospital money, according to a study recently ...
Mar 8, 2016
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Robotic Nephrectomy for Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus Has Favorable Outcomes and Reproducibility When Performed by Surgeons with Adequate Robotic Experience, According to First Multi-Institutional Report, Published in ...
Feb 8, 2016
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A surgeon says doctors will perform open heart surgery in Zimbabwe for the first time in over a decade.
Jan 15, 2016
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Patients who have undergone radical prostatectomy often have largely unrealistic expectations with regard to their postoperative sexual function, new research shows.
Jan 4, 2016
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There is a debate about when the first successful open-heart surgery was performed in the United States. Some believe it was 122 years ago in Chicago when surgeon Daniel Hale Williams performed the momentous medical advancement. ...
Oct 28, 2015
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Penn Medicine has performed more than 1,200 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacements (TAVR) on patients with severe aortic stenosis. Today, at the Transcatheter Cardiac Therapeutics conference in San Francisco, Howard C. Herrmann, ...
Oct 15, 2015
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Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Karp Lab at Brigham ...
Oct 5, 2015
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(HealthDay)—The newest version of the Sapien 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Jun 19, 2015
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