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Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, surgeons graft arteries, fix structural defects or transplant entire hearts.

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When a patient with heart failure has received a new heart and survives—the transplantation is deemed a success. However, health care overlooks heart recipients who suffer from long-term and of...

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When performing knee replacement surgery, also called total knee arthroplasty, doctors traditionally try to align the hip, knee, and ankle in a straight line, forming a neutral alignment, rather ...

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For patients with severely calcified coronary lesions, routine treatment with orbital atherectomy prior to drug-eluting stent implantation does not yield greater minimal stent area or reduce the ...

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Transcatheter tricuspid-valve replacement is superior to medical therapy alone for patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation, according to a study published online Oct. 30 in the New England J...

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For the first time, researchers at Phoenix's Barrow Neurological Institute have collected and displayed together the "manikins" published nearly 500 years ago by the 16th Century anatomist Andrea...

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Researchers have discovered a promising approach for reducing brain injury risk in patients undergoing carotid artery stenting (CAS). CAS is a procedure commonly performed in elderly patients wit...

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To test complex brain functions during neurosurgical procedures, surgeons must operate on awake, locally anesthetized patients. This allows surgeons to interact with them and test how their inter...

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Robots could soon play a larger role in surgery thanks to recent AI developments, experts say, in a Science Robotics paper.

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Most small kidney stones can pass on their own. However, kidney stones that are too large to pass on their own or cause bleeding, kidney damage or ongoing urinary tract infections may require sur...

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Although much rarer than either breast or prostate cancers, testicular cancer is the most common solid tumor in males between the ages of 15 and 35, with approximately 10,000 young men diagnosed ...

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Total hip replacement results in superior reduction in hip pain and improved hip function at six months compared with resistance training among patients aged 50 years or older with severe hip ost...

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Cataracts—a condition that causes clouding of the eye's lens and deteriorating vision—will affect nearly everyone who lives long enough. Now Johns Hopkins scientists have pioneered a new colo...

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Children of non-White racial/ethnic backgrounds experience significant disparities in access to and outcomes of surgery to repair cleft lip, reports a study in the November issue of Plastic and R...

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Treatment with endovascular thrombectomy did not significantly improve outcomes after 90 days in patients with a large core stroke, as compared to patients who received standard stroke care alone...

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Ten years after undergoing bariatric surgery as teens, over half of study participants demonstrated not only sustained weight loss, but also resolution of obesity-related conditions, such as type...

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After a heart attack, aging adults face double or triple the risk of life-threatening complications—like a debilitating stroke or another heart attack—when they move forward with elective non...

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Findings from the TAVR UNLOAD study found limited benefits of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in the treatment of heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and moder...

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The first powered randomized trial examining early intervention with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with asymptomatic, severe aortic stenosis (AS) found this strategy t...

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Most patients may continue to safely take glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists as prescribed before undergoing elective surgery and gastrointestinal endoscopies, according to new cli...

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Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn have now shown that an alternative method reduces the amount of waste. Instead of a separate syringe for the induction...

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Yale Cancer Center researchers at Yale School of Medicine have taken a significant step towards understanding the unique experiences of women of color living flat without breast reconstruction af...

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Until now, patients with aortic stenosis—a narrowing of one of the heart's main valves—have had to wait until symptoms become severe before undergoing valve replacement. Findings from the EVO...

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Rutgers Health researchers and other medical scientists involved in a large international study have identified new signs of kidney transplant rejection that could lead to more precise diagnosis ...

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Leading ethics experts and researchers have co-authored a breakthrough paper calling for new governance and legal rules to guide application of emerging technology to preserve organs for transpla...

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For kidney transplant recipients experiencing antibody-mediated rejection, the current standard of care involves removing donor-specific antibodies (DSAs) through plasmapheresis (PLEX)—a proced...

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Chronic active antibody-mediated rejection (caAMR) is a common cause of allograft loss after transplantation, with no approved therapies. Clazakizumab, a monoclonal antibody that targets the infl...

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A new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in collaboration with researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Brown School of Public Health, examined a large s...

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The Politecnico di Milano and the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam have pooled their medical and technical expertise to create a new technology for devices called "insufflators." These innovat...

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Investigators recently uncovered key insights into newly defined rejection entities in kidney transplantation that may offer improved patient risk categorization post-transplant. The research wil...

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