News tagged with abdominal incision
Most hysterectomies should be performed vaginally or laparoscopically
Approximately 600,000 hysterectomies are performed in the United States annually to treat benign disorders of the pelvis. More than two-thirds are performed through an abdominal incision. In an evidence-based position statement ...
Nov 07, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Less invasive procedure for repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm may reduce short-term risk of death
Patients who received the less-invasive endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm had a lower risk of death in the first 30 days after the procedure compared to patients who an open repair, but both procedures had ...
Oct 13, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Gallbladder removal through vagina offers minimally invasive alternative
Physicians at Northwestern Memorial Hospital successfully removed a patient's gallbladder through the vagina, making them the first in the Midwest and the third in the country to perform the innovative procedure. The technique, ...
Feb 25, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Search results for abdominal incision
Surgery without external scars is gaining traction
When Patricia Manrique was told she needed her gallbladder removed she immediately thought about the classroom full of children who rely on her to teach them tap and ballet each day. The Chicago Park District physical instructor ...
Mar 10, 2011 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
Minimally invasive surgeries: Laser suturing
Surgeries with the endoscope are exacting and require special capabilities of the surgeon. The suturing of the tissue and the setting of the knots, in particular, is very complicated due to the lack of space ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
not rated yet |
1
New long-acting local anesthetic derived from algae effectively blocks pain in surgical patients
A U.S.-Chile collaboration is bringing surgical patients closer to having a long-acting local anesthetic. In a randomized, double-blind trial, patients given neosaxitoxin, a new local anesthetic derived from algae, had significantly ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 23, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
The Medical Minute: What is an abdominal aortic aneurysm?
There are approximately 200,000 people each year found to have an abdominal aortic aneurysm and about 32,000 are repaired electively each year.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 10, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Invention helps students learn surgical techniques before operating on patients
In the last 50 years, modern medicine has made astounding advances in surgery, yet many of today's veterinary and human medicine students still hone basic surgical and suturing skills on carpet pads and pig's feet before ...
Nov 19, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
First US surgery to compare NOTES vs. laparoscopy
As part of the only U.S. prospective multicenter clinical trial to compare natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) to laparoscopy, surgeons at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have ...
Jul 07, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Researchers perform head-to-head comparison of incontinence treatments
As part of a national clinical trial, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found little difference in effectiveness between two popular treatments for one of the most common ailments among American women: stress urinary ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 02, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Caesarean deliveries reach record high in US: study
Births by Caesarean section in the United States reached an all-time high in 2007 when some 1.4 million babies, or 32 percent of births, were delivered by C-section, a study showed Tuesday.
Mar 23, 2010 |
not rated yet |
1
Interventional radiology: Zapping uterine fibroids with heat from high-energy sound waves
There's a new interventional radiology tool showing promise in the treatment of uterine fibroids: magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), a minimally invasive treatment that uses high-energy ultrasound waves ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Zapping fibroids with heat in hunt for new options
(AP) -- They're a bane of that decade or two before menopause, growths in the uterus called fibroids that cause bleeding, pain or other problems in nearly a third of women - and they're the No. 1 cause of hysterectomies.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 22, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
List of search results for abdominal incision
