How cancers metastasize remains poorly understood. The process begins when cancer cells break off from a tumor and invade blood and lymphatic vessels, the body's alleyways. But studying invasion—typically a microscopic ...
Oct 20, 2021
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Why do some patients recover quickly after surgery, while others don't? That is an important question when treating older frail patients suffering from aortic stenosis. Lead author Dae Hyun Kim, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D., and principle ...
Feb 4, 2019
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Bifurcation lesions are a challenge, even for an experienced cardiac surgeon. Currently, there are two surgical techniques for dealing with them, but no medical consensus on which one applies to which case. Russian scientists ...
Nov 21, 2018
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X-ray fluoroscopy is frequently used in orthopedic surgery. Despite its imaging capabilities, physicians heavily rely on their experience and knowledge to align the 3D shape of the target area using the 2D X-ray image. If ...
Nov 10, 2023
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There is a small, but growing, subset of livers that have been transplanted and have a cumulative age of more than 100 years, according to researchers from University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and ...
Oct 16, 2022
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A glove is being trialed at Liverpool Hospital that gives surgical trainees instant and accurate feedback. Researchers say the gloves could also be used by musicians and artists.
Mar 28, 2022
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Lung surgery patients who utilize a comprehensive, evidence-based enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program require fewer opioid prescriptions when discharged and this effect was sustained over the 4-year study period, ...
Sep 10, 2021
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Miniature microscopes attached to the heads of living mice have enabled researchers to gain important insights about the neuronal pathways behind complex behaviors. Now, researchers report a new generation of head-mounted ...
Mar 29, 2023
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It's an injury once seen mainly in adults, yet it's become increasingly common in younger patients. From 2000 to 2020, the number of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears in children and adolescents increased between three- ...
Sep 14, 2023
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A new study in Gastroenterology identifies how certain proteins in the immune system interact and lead to organ rejection. The study, which involved experiments on mice and human patients, uncovered an important communication ...
Jul 19, 2023
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