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Reconstruction, transplantation successful for gut failure after bariatric surgery

Posted on: 18/05/2015 - 19:22

SAN DIEGO – Treating gut failure after bariatric surgery involves meeting patients’ nutritional needs while avoiding a recurrence of morbid obesity, according to Dr. Kareem Abu-Elmagd of the...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

AUA: Very low-risk prostate cancers cause few deaths over 15 years

Posted on: 17/05/2015 - 22:44

NEW ORLEANS – Long-term active surveillance seems to be a safe and effective way to avoid overtreatment in men with low- and very low-risk prostate ... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Oral cancer survival lower with positive margins, public insurance

Posted on: 14/05/2015 - 18:06

In patients who underwent surgical treatment for stage I or II oral cavity squamous cell cancer, positive tumor margin, the use of radiation or chemot... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

OARSI: Predictors of crossover to surgery identified in patients with meniscal tears and OA

Posted on: 13/05/2015 - 18:03

SEATTLE – Certain clinical factors help predict which patients with knee meniscal tears and osteoarthritis will abandon physical therapy (PT) for su... More »

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

ELCC: Urine tumor DNA shows high testing promise

Posted on: 30/04/2015 - 18:37

GENEVA – Blood sampling provides a less invasive alternative to tumor biopsy for collecting cancer DNA for mutation testing, but retrieving tumor DN... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

ELCC: NSCLC mutation testing highlights ctDNA’s limitationsvitals

Posted on: 23/04/2015 - 21:46

GENEVA – The tests widely available today that use a cancer patient’s tumor DNA that circulates in the blood to detect a treatment-altering lung c... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Oophorectomy improves survival after breast cancer in BRCA1 carriers

Posted on: 23/04/2015 - 16:00

Women with breast cancer and BRCA1 mutations had a lower risk of mortality if they underwent oophorectomy, and the benefit was apparent beyond age 50,... More »

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Oophorectomy improves survival after breast cancer in BRCA1 carriers

Posted on: 23/04/2015 - 16:00

Women with breast cancer and BRCA1 mutations had a lower risk of mortality if they underwent oophorectomy, and the benefit was apparent beyond age 50,... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

SSIs a factor in postop colon cancer survival

Posted on: 14/04/2015 - 12:38

HOUSTON – Surgical-site infections occurring in patients who underwent curative resection for localized colon cancer were associated with worse over... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Vesicovaginal fistulas after hysterectomy linked to urinary tract injury

Posted on: 07/04/2015 - 21:46

ORLANDO – Injuring the bladder during a hysterectomy is associated with a greater likelihood of developing a postoperative vesicovaginal fistula, ac... More »

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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