Could this procedure replace open heart surgery?
But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently expanded access to transcatheter aortic valve replacement …
Category: Surgery
Ankle Splinting
Splints are primarily used to stabilize injuries to bones until the patient can be evaluated …
Reduction of Radial Head Dislocation
Dislocation of the radial head can be congenital, related to underlying disease, or traumatic. In …
Wrist Arthrocentesis
The wrist joint is anatomically complex (see Wrist Joint Anatomy), but most of the intercarpal spaces …
Shoulder Arthrocentesis
Aspiration of the glenohumeral joint can be accomplished via either an anterior or a posterior …
Knee Arthrocentesis
To avoid puncture of tendons, blood vessels, and nerves, the clinician performing the procedure should …
Elbow Arthrocentesis
The most emergent diagnosis of consideration, a septic joint, occurs less frequently in the elbow …
Twenty surgeons remove 132-pound ovarian tumor from woman
Twenty surgeons labored for five hours to remove a 132-pound ovarian tumor from a woman’s …
IN firefighter has his leg devoured by flesh-eating bug
But the following day it spread further and Tracy, a fireman of 33 years, returned …
GP missed woman’s bowel cancer as she was ‘too young’
At 32, Cara Hoofe was so constantly exhausted she could barely keep her eyes open, …
Young mother 26, has been unable to urinate for FIVE YEARS since giving birth
A young mother-of-two has been unable to urinate since the birth of her daughter five years ago. …
UK under 5 death rate is among Europe’s worst as youngsters twice as likely to die than the Swedish
British youngsters under five are 50 per cent more likely to die than those in …
Diabetes drug could heart transplant organ rejection
However, a new study by Queen Mary University of London found that by repurposing a drug designed to …
‘Robot surgery’ could save men from prostate cancer
The £1 million machines, known as Da Vinci robots, have performed life-saving surgery at University …
US cracks down on stem cell clinics using ‘unproven’ treatments for cancer, Parkinson’s and more
Businesses put consumers at risk by promising benefits from treatments and products never approved by …