Despite increasing use of anti–tumor necrosis factor (TNF) medications in recent years and a low rate of proctectomy, there has been no decline in stoma
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The outcome of deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for Parkinson disease (PD) is comparable when performed under general or local anesthesia, results of a new
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Lung surgery patients who utilize a comprehensive, evidence-based enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program require fewer opioid prescriptions when discharged and this effect was sustained
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Planned (elective) surgery in an independent sector hospital in England, and funded by the NHS, is associated with shorter lengths of stay and lower readmission
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Cancer patients have a reduced length of hospital stay following a novel approach to improve their fitness for surgery. The approach termed "prehabilitation" includes exercise,
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A simple surgery saves patients with heart arrhythmia from often-lethal strokes, says a large international study led by McMaster University. Researchers found that removing the
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Many have assumed that the rates of major abdominal surgeries in adults over 65 is increasing over time as the U.S. population ages and as
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The family of Ohio surgeon Thomas Lee Flanigan, 48, who died last week, made public the obituary he wrote himself, self-eulogizing his “shocking and unexpected,
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Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have developed a topical drug that regenerates and restores the function of erectile nerves damaged by radical prostatectomy,
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Excess mortality among people with endogenous Cushing syndrome (CS) has declined in the past 20 years yet remains three times higher than in the general
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