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| 2008-10-06 |
Mastectomy Urged for Recurrent Ipsilateral Breast Cancer After Lumpectomy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (MedPage Today) -- If cancer recurs in the same breast after a lumpectomy, mastectomy may be the best next step, researchers here found.
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| 2008-10-03 |
Drainage Device May Offer Catheter-Free Prostatectomy Option
NEW YORK (MedPage Today) -- Patients undergoing robotic radical prostatectomy had virtually none of the pain associated with a conventional urethral catheter when surgeons used an investigational bladder drain, a small pilot study showed.
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| 2008-10-03 |
Cancers Increase Following Liver Transplantation
HELSINKI, Finland (MedPage Today) -- Patients who undergo liver transplantation are more likely to get cancer than the general population, researchers here found.
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| 2008-10-02 |
Acupressure Relieves Children's Preoperative Stress
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (MedPage Today) -- For children awaiting surgery, preoperative acupressure may alleviate anxiety but it won't reduce the need for sedatives, researchers here found.
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| 2008-10-01 |
Beta-Blockers Benefit COPD Patients Despite Concerns
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands (MedPage Today) -- Cardioselective beta-blockers appear to be safe and may improve outcomes for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients undergoing vascular surgery, researchers found.
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| 2008-10-01 |
Partial Nephrectomy May Be Best for Overall Survival in Kidney Cancer
NEW YORK (MedPage Today) -- Kidney cancer patients who also have reduced renal function may be better off undergoing partial rather than radical nephrectomy, researchers here said.
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| 2008-09-30 |
X-Ray Evidence Shows Popular Supplements Fail to Slow Knee Osteoarthritis
SALT LAKE CITY (MedPage Today) -- Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate, individually or in combination, were ineffective in reducing long-term radiographic progression of knee osteoarthritis, showed a large randomized trial.
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| 2008-09-29 |
Residents' Performance in Cardiac Surgery on Par with That of Staff Surgeons
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (MedPage Today) -- For patients undergoing cardiac surgery, long-term outcomes were similar whether a resident or a staff physician did the procedure, a single-center study found.
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| 2008-09-29 |
Child-Sized Devices Aid Heart While Waiting for Transplant
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (MedPage Today) -- Biventricular assist devices sized specifically for a smaller heart successfully bridged the time to transplant in more than 90% of children, researchers here found.
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| 2008-09-26 |
Study Suggests Optimal Wait Times for Surgery After Stenting
ROCHESTER, Minn. (MedPage Today) -- Elective surgery should be delayed for 90 days following placement of a bare-metal coronary stent and for more than a year when a drug-eluting device is used, researchers here reported.
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| 2008-09-25 |
Kidneys from Older Donors May Be Structurally Inferior
PALO ALTO, Calif. (MedPage Today) -- Kidneys from older deceased donors function worse than those from younger donors because of structural problems, researchers here found.
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| 2008-09-25 |
AAO-HNS: Cochlear Implants Found Worthwhile in the Elderly
CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- Cochlear implants for older patients led to better hearing as well as improvements in quality of life, researchers said here.
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| 2008-09-23 |
Antibody Levels Determined After Desensitization Predict Kidney-Graft Success
LOS ANGELES (MedPage Today) -- For certain kidney failure patients sensitized to HLA, lowering the level of donor-specific antibody improves the chance of a successful transplant, researchers found.
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| 2008-09-22 |
Statins Linked to Increased Risk of Postoperative Delirium
TORONTO (MedPage Today) -- Older patients who take statins regularly, particularly those past 70, have an increased risk of delirium following elective surgery, researchers here reported.
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| 2008-09-22 |
Aortic Valve Bypasses Effective for High-Risk Aortic Stenosis
BALTIMORE (MedPage Today) -- Aortic stenosis patients considered too high risk for replacement benefited from a bypass procedure developed for children with congenital left ventricular outflow tract obstructions, researchers here reported.
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| 2008-08-13 |
Baby Heart Transplants Fan Ethical Debate Over Dead-Donor Rule
DENVER (MedPage Today) -- Three heart transplants were successfully performed with infant donors whose hearts had stopped beating, according to researchers here, but some ethicists question whether moral boundaries were crossed.
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| 2008-08-11 |
Mortality Advantage for Epidural Anesthesia Called Marginal
TORONTO (MedPage Today) -- Epidural anesthesia was associated with only slightly improved mortality following complex surgery, but it has other pluses over conventional analgesia with parenteral opioids, researchers here said.
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| 2008-08-08 |
Good Results Seen with Intrabone Cord Blood Transplant for Leukemia
GENOA, Italy (MedPage Today) -- Leukemia patients who had umbilical cord blood cells from unrelated donors injected into their bone showed excellent levels of engraftment and low rates of graft-versus-host disease, researchers here said.
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| 2008-08-07 |
Minimally Invasive Approach Comparable to Open Surgery for Aneurysm Repair
CLEVELAND (MedPage Today) -- For repair of descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms, an endovascular approach and open surgery were comparable in the risk of mortality or spinal cord ischemia, researchers here reported.
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| 2008-07-29 |
Frankincense Extract Said to Reduce Osteoarthritis Pain
DAVIS, Calif. (MedPage Today) -- For patients with knee osteoarthritis, an extract of the Indian frankincense plant gave significant pain relief and reduced levels of a marker of joint pathology, researchers here said.
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