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| MED | MRI Blood Flow Simulation Helps Plan Child’s Heart Surgery
Researchers have developed a virtual surgery tool that allows heart surgeons to manipulate 3D cardiac magnetic resonance images of a patient’s specific anatomy to select the best approach before entering the operating room. In the August issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, the researchers detail how the tool helped them plan the surgery of a four-year-old girl born with just one functional ventricle. (Embargo expired on 10-Aug-2009 at 17:00 ET.)
Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging, Aug-2009 | 10-Aug-2009
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| MED | Eight-Hour Surgery Removes Life-Threatening Blood Clots From 17-Year-Old's Lungs
After visiting the emergency room with fainting spells and shortness of breath, a 17-year-old Morningside Heights boy was diagnosed with rare, life-threatening blood clots blocking his pulmonary arteries. To address the problem, surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital successfully performed a pulmonary thromboendartectomy (PTE) surgery -- reportedly, the first time it has been performed on a child in the New York City area. | 06-Aug-2009
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| MED | Nerve-Block Anesthesia Can Improve Surgical Recovery, Even Outcomes
When planning for surgery, patients too often don't consider the kind of anesthesia they will receive. In fact, the choice of anesthesia can improve recovery, even outcomes. | 04-Aug-2009
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| MED | Neck Surgery for Cervical Spine Disorders Found to Alleviate Associated Headaches
Improvement of headaches significant after anterior cervical reconstructive surgery.
J. of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS), Aug-2009 | 03-Aug-2009
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| MED | UAMS First to Use Device to Unclog Patient’s Veins in Brain
In the days leading up to Glen Deaton’s emergency trip from Trumann to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), large veins that drain blood from his brain were clotting.
Confusion, nausea, vomiting and blurred vision were among his symptoms. An MRI revealed cerebral venous sinus thrombosis – a type of stroke caused by a clot that in Deaton’s case ran from the top of his head nearly to his neck. With the blood flow stopped like water in a clogged drain, tremendous pressure was on Deaton’s brain, resulting in the stroke and hemorrhage despite a shunt to relieve the pressure. He had a seizure, became unresponsive and had to be put on a ventilator.
(Embargo expired on 30-Jul-2009 at 10:00 ET.) | 30-Jul-2009
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| MED | Mars and Venus: Short- and Long-Term Success of Male to Female Kidney Transplants
Female recipients of kidneys from deceased male donors demonstrate an increased risk of allograft failure in the first year after transplant, but show no increased risk after ten years, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The study authors note that proteins on male donor cells may affect the short term success of kidney transplants in women.
J. of the Am. Society of Nephrology | 29-Jul-2009
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| MED | Lung Volume Reduction Surgery Shown to Prolong and Improve Life for Some Emphysema Patients
Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) can have a significantly beneficial effect in patients with severe emphysema, according to the first ever study to randomize emphysema patients to receive either LVRS or non-surgical medical care.
Am. J. of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 1-Aug-2009 | 23-Jul-2009
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| MED | Patient Has Speedy Recovery from New Heart Valve Procedure
Because UVA is one of several dozen U.S. medical centers researching the use of a new, minimally-invasive mitral valve repair procedure, George Forschler did not have to undergo open heart surgery when his leaky mitral valve caused him to become severely ill. The new procedure allows patients to heal faster with fewer complications. | 22-Jul-2009
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| MED | New Ways to Repair Heart Valves -- Without Open Heart Surgery
New, less invasive ways to repair heart valves may fundamentally transform how this lifesaving procedure is performed. The July issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter looks at new technologies under study to repair heart valve disorders without open heart surgery. | 22-Jul-2009
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| MED | 100th Heart Valve Replacement Implanted Without Open-Heart Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
Over the last four years, heart specialists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center have implanted an innovative aortic heart valve replacement using a catheter-based approach that does not require open-heart surgery in a total of 100 patients -- the most of any U.S. medical center to date. | 22-Jul-2009
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