Surgery General
Mar 13, 2013
The Particulars: Patients in the rapidly growing octogenarian population frequently have coronary artery disease (CAD). While CABG is often used to treat CAD, comorbidities and limited life expectancy...
Mar 13, 2013
The Particulars: Recent cost-effective analyses have compared surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), but these studies may not represent outcomes t...
Mar 13, 2013
The Particulars: It has long been suspected that losing weight will improve long-term health outcomes in patients with symptoms of heart failure (HF) who undergo implantable cardiac resynchronization ...
Mar 13, 2013
Preoperative statin use appears to be associated with a decreased risk of postoperative acute kidney injury, according to results from a large investigation. An analysis of patients who underwent a ma...
Mar 13, 2013
The Particulars: Data are lacking on how often glucose control is achieved in community practice for patients undergoing CABG. There are also few analyses examining factors that can help predict bette...
Mar 08, 2013
New research was presented at ACC.13, the Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology, from March 9-11, in San Francisco. Meeting Highlights Electronic Discharge Beneficial ...
Mar 07, 2013
Among patients with primary lung cancer undergoing lobectomy, having a higher BMI appears to increase total operating room time. American investigators found that the average operating room time incre...
Mar 07, 2013
A research review from the AHRQ suggests that few studies have explored strategies for reducing cesarean births in low-risk women. Available at www.ahrq.gov, the review notes that no single strategy w...
Feb 28, 2013
Research from Michigan suggests that use of statins and aspirin prior to percutaneous revascularization among patients with peripheral arterial disease, or PAD, appears to reduce the number of periphe...
Feb 28, 2013
Many severely obese adults who undergo gastric bypass surgery appear to experience a durable remission of type 2 diabetes, according to a large cohort study. However, more than one-third (35.1%) of pa...
Feb 21, 2013
Across general abdominal surgical procedures among obese patients, laparoscopic surgery appears to reduce the risk of surgical site infections (SSIs) by 70% to 80%, when compared with open surgery. A ...
Feb 21, 2013
Volume-based referral policies do not appear to steer patients toward hospitals with high average costs for inpatient surgery in the elderly. A University of Michigan study found that the lowest-volum...
Feb 21, 2013
The rate of immediate reconstruction (IR) use for women with breast cancer who undergo mastectomy appears to have increased significantly between 2000 and 2010, according to a large analysis. Several ...
Feb 19, 2013
Approximately 600,000 total knee arthroplasties (TKA) are performed each year in the United States, costing about $15,000 per procedure. “TKA has been shown to markedly improve health-related qualit...
Feb 19, 2013
Structural heart disease (SHD) interventions have emerged as a new field in interventional cardiology over the last decade. The need for highly specialized cardiologists has increased, and advances in...
Feb 19, 2013
Catheter-associated blood stream infections (CABSI) can have a significant impact on patient morbidity while increasing healthcare utilization costs. CABSIs are preventable, and several strategies are...
Feb 14, 2013
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, the first implanted device to treat adult patients with advanced retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The device, whi...
Feb 14, 2013
Robotic-assisted surgical removal of the bladder is becoming increasingly popular for treating bladder cancer, despite being more expensive than traditional surgery. Benefits of the robotic approach i...
Feb 13, 2013
Ruptures of cerebral aneurysms lead to subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and are associated with substantial mortality and morbidity. Previous research has indicated that the rupture rates of aneurysms va...