(Medical Xpress) -- From precancerous lesions in the bladder to polyps in the colon, pathologists are constantly examining tissue biopsies for diagnoses. Researchers at Cornell are pushing the limits of the well-established ...
Oct 18, 2011
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For patients undergoing open or laparoscopic resection of the small bowel or strictureplasty for Crohn disease (CD), small bowel resection is associated with the longest length of stay and increased odds of postoperative ...
Aug 3, 2024
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For patients with cervical radiculopathy, posterior foraminotomy provides outcomes comparable to those of the more commonly performed anterior cervical discectomy, reports a randomized clinical trial in the Journal of Bone ...
Jul 25, 2024
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Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) star ratings are associated with adverse outcomes after surgery, there is wide variation in outcomes within each star rating group, according to a study published ...
Jun 19, 2024
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Researchers who had been using Fitbit data to help predict surgical outcomes have a new method to more accurately gauge how patients may recover from spine surgery.
Jun 3, 2024
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Coupling a smart phone app with a real-life health coach appears to be key to helping patients adhere to pre-surgical preparation and post-surgical recovery guidance and improving surgical outcomes, according to new findings ...
Apr 4, 2024
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A new study published in the American Journal of Infection Control demonstrates the use of a simple pre-surgical infection prevention protocol to prevent dangerous post-surgical infections. Researchers performed this investigation ...
Mar 28, 2024
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Despite having a higher risk of experiencing a stroke and being more likely to die from a stroke, Black patients are less likely to receive lifesaving stroke treatments than white patients, a University of Georgia study found.
Jan 12, 2024
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About 12,000 Black and Hispanic patients who died after surgery the past two decades may have lived if there were no racial and ethnic disparities among Americans having surgery, suggests a study of more than 1.5 million ...
Oct 16, 2023
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Adding perioperative durvalumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy did not adversely impact surgery in patients with resectable NSCLC and was associated with a tolerable surgical safety profile, according to research presented from ...
Sep 11, 2023
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