Promising First Dips Into a Bigger Pool of MitraClip Candidates
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Emerging real-world data supported benefits of MitraClip therapy in patients with secondary mitral regurgitation (MR) who didn't fit the COAPT profile, the EXPAND study showed.
MR was often reduced to mild or better... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - June 9, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Device Type Matters for Valve-in-Valve TAVR in Small Anatomies
(MedPage Today) -- PARIS -- For people with failed surgical aortic valves, the choice of device for a subsequent valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) had implications for valve hemodynamics down the line, researchers showed... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - May 20, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
TAVR Stays Its Course as 10-Year Durability Data Trickle In
(MedPage Today) -- PARIS -- Extended follow-up data were reassuring for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR, or TAVI) durability beyond 10 years, investigators found.
In the U.K. TAVI registry, there was a 5.9% incidence of severe structural... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - May 19, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
'Acuity Circles' Policy Tied to Delays in Liver Procurement for Transplant
(MedPage Today) -- Implementation of the acuity circles (AC) allocation policy led to more delays in organ procurement, a retrospective study found.
The average pre-procurement time grew from 47.6 hours prior to the AC allocation policy to 50... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - May 19, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
HAIP Chemotherapy or Resection for Multifocal Bile Duct Cancer?
(MedPage Today) -- Hepatic arterial infusion pump (HAIP) floxuridine chemotherapy may represent an effective alternative to curative-intent resection in patients with multifocal intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma who are at risk for surgical complications... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - May 11, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
How Surgical Behavior for Colon Cancer Shifted in the Pandemic
(MedPage Today) -- More patients in Sweden diagnosed with colon cancer during the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic underwent ostomy surgery, and fewer residents participated in resections, according to an observational study.
In the analysis... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - May 10, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
What It's Like to be a Traveling Orthopedic Surgeon?
(MedPage Today) -- Sonya Sloan, MD, is a traveling orthopedic surgeon, a locum tenens physician, an author, a speaker, and a mother. In her work across the U.S. for more than a decade, she has seen and treated just about everything. She was also... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - April 29, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
What's It Like to Be a Traveling Orthopedic Surgeon?
(MedPage Today) -- Sonya Sloan, MD, is a traveling orthopedic surgeon, a locum tenens physician, an author, a speaker, and a mother. In her work across the U.S. for more than a decade, she has seen and treated just about everything. She was also... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - April 29, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Donation After Circulatory Death Offers Opportunity to Boost Organ Pool
(MedPage Today) -- While organ donations have traditionally come from dying patients who have a heartbeat but are considered brain dead, organs can also be harvested after circulatory death, when the heart and circulation reach a full stop.
Donation... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - April 22, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Not All Good News When It Comes to Surging POEM Use for Achalasia
(MedPage Today) -- Use of per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for esophageal achalasia increased dramatically during the past decade, a retrospective study found, and while the procedure appears just as safe as laparoscopic Heller myotomy (LHM)... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - April 22, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Make the Diagnosis: Pity the Patella
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Source: MedPage Today Surgery - April 21, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Health System on the Hook for $22M Over Unnecessary Spine Surgeries
(MedPage Today) -- Providence Health & Services agreed to pay $22.7 million to settle allegations that two of its neurosurgeons falsely billed federal healthcare programs for medically unnecessary spine surgeries, in the largest-ever healthcare... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - April 15, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Achilles' Tendon Rupture Surgery Not So Necessary?
(MedPage Today) -- For Achilles' tendon rupture, surgery didn't improve outcomes more than other kinds of treatment, a randomized trial showed.
At 12 months, patient-reported symptoms and physical activity were similar in both the open-repair... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - April 13, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Meet This Year's Healthcare Billionaires
(MedPage Today) -- There may be 87 fewer billionaires on Forbes' annual ranking of the world's richest people this year, but healthcare leaders still managed to climb the list.
Thomas Frist Jr., MD, founder of the sprawling, publicly traded health... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - April 12, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Did China's Transplant Docs Violate Dead Donor Rule?
(MedPage Today) -- The "dead donor rule" for heart and lung transplants was itself seemingly dead in China, as papers appearing in the nation's medical journals indicate that physicians involved in the system had ignored internationally agreed... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - April 6, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
