The June issue of Surgery Today features a study in which elderly female cardiac patients who had had emergency operations and were given antidepressants experienced less depression, shorter hospital stays and fewer deaths in the hospital.
The main issue of surgery for anal fistulas is to provide definite healing and to prevent incontinence.
Risks of the anaesthetic, as well as the possibility of the strabismus being worsened as a result of surgery, were an issue for the majority of parents.
Science reporter Sara Reardon chats with Helen Mayberg of the Emory University School of Medicine about the scientific and ethical issues of using surgery to treat psychiatric disorders.
The article summarizes the current use of total wrist arthroplasty and touches on issues of revision surgery, secondary fusion, complications, wrist fusion takedown, and radiolucency around implants.
To achieve the latter, the issue of sham surgery has garnered much attention in the conduct of surgical RCTs.
The study, in the September issue of Annals of Surgery, looked at eight types of cardiovascular procedures done on more than 450,000 patients over one year.
The study, published in the December issue of Archives of Surgery, examined outcomes of fairly common procedures performed on 101,318 adults 65 and older at all nonmilitary hospitals in Washington State from 1987 through 2004.
In this month's issue of Archives of Surgery, Alex Macario, a surgeon at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues describe a tracking system they hope will eliminate that risk.
Our present study is the first multi-centric series to address the issue of benefit of surgery after neoadjuvant IM in this setting.
