Doctors Perform First Partial-Face, Full-Eye Transplant
(MedPage Today) -- A 46-year-old military veteran is the first-ever recipient of a combined whole-eye and partial face transplant, according to clinicians at NYU Langone Health.
Last May, a team of more than 140 healthcare professionals -- led... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - November 9, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Kidney Week Roundup: Cell Therapy Cuts Immunosuppressive Drug Use Post-Transplant
(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- Some of the latest research in the field of nephrology presented at the American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week included sparsentan in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, combination treatment with an SGLT2... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - November 7, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Kidney Transplant Rates Stubbornly Resist Systems Intervention in Canada
(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- A multicomponent intervention in Canada designed to overcome barriers that prevent kidney transplantation and living donation failed to increase access to either.
Despite a high rate of intervention uptake... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - November 6, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
EP Study During TAVR Offers Better Prediction of Late Conduction Disturbances
(MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Better indicators of high-grade atrioventricular (AV) conduction system abnormalities following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) could be gleaned from an intraprocedural electrophysiologic (EP... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - October 27, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Spider, Exoskeleton Removed From Patient's Ear
(MedPage Today) -- A 64-year-old woman presented to the otolaryngology clinic at a Taiwanese hospital because she'd been hearing abnormal sounds in her left ear for 4 days.
She told doctors there that she'd felt a creature moving in her ear, and... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - October 26, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Early Experience Keeps Tendyne TMVR on Track for MR and Severe MAC
(MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Operators had a favorable early experience using the Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system for severe mitral regurgitation (MR) and mitral annular calcification (MAC), according to observational... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - October 25, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Make the Diagnosis: Another Reason to Avoid Falls
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Source: MedPage Today Surgery - October 23, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Surgery Gets a Win for Clearing Nasal Obstruction
(MedPage Today) -- Surgery was more effective than medical management for patients with nasal obstruction associated with septal deviation, the multicenter NAIROS trial found.
Patient-reported Sino-Nasal Outcome Test-22 (SNOT-22) scores at 6 months... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - October 20, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Plastic Glove, Scissors Solve Problem in Single-Lung Ventilation
(MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Chinese researchers reported a simple but clever solution to the problem of how to facilitate non-dependent lung collapse during single-lung ventilation, which is needed for many types of thoracic surgery... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - October 17, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Small Piece of Plastic Cuts Throat Damage From Trach Tubes
(MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Attaching a small plastic clip to endotracheal tubes, helping them conform better to airway geometry, reduced much of the throat damage typically seen after tube placement, a researcher reported here.
In a... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - October 17, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Gabapentin as Post-Op Painkiller Gets a Cold Shower
(MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Gabapentin failed to outperform placebo as an analgesic for pain after major surgery, according to a study presented here.
No clinically significant benefit was seen for the active drug in terms of length... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - October 15, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Did Aerosmith's Steven Tyler Really 'Break His Larynx'?
(MedPage Today) -- The headline: "Aerosmith Postpones Farewell Tour After Steven Tyler Fractures Larynx."
Me (a physician who seriously considered going into ear, nose, and throat medicine): Wait, is fracturing your larynx/voice box even a thing... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - October 13, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Common Shoulder Procedure Found Worthless
(MedPage Today) -- Saline lavage, meant to loosen up calcified shoulder tendons, provided no benefit in a double-blind, sham-controlled trial, researchers said.
Four months after treatment, Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS) values were about the same... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - October 12, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Fresh Blood Not Always the Best Blood?
(MedPage Today) -- Longer storage of red blood cell (RBC) units was associated with longer transplant survival in kidney transplant patients receiving early transfusions, a retrospective study in France found.
Among 3,483 kidney recipients who... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 15, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Stem-Cell Mobilization Booster Wins FDA Approval for Multiple Myeloma
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA has approved the CXCR4 antagonist motixafortide (Aphexda) for use with filgrastim (Neupogen) to mobilize stem cells for autologous transplantation in multiple myeloma, BioLineRx announced on Monday.
Recent advances in... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 11, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
