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Bioartificial Liver Reduces Liver-Failure Deaths

A major study involving 20 U.S. and European centers has found that a bioartificial liver reduced mortality of patients suffering from acute liver failure by 44%. More...
04 May 2004

Beating-Heart Bypass Bests On-Pump Surgery

A new study has shown that beating-heart bypass surgery has a number of benefits over surgery conducted with the use of a heart-lung machine. More...
29 Apr 2004

Retrievable Vena Cava Filter

A new vena cava filter offers the option of being percutaneously retrieved or being permanently placed in the inferior vena cava of a patient. More...
29 Apr 2004

Reducing the Rates of Surgical Infections

Hospital programs can reduce the rates of surgical infections through proper antibiotic use, which also results in large cost-savings. More...
27 Apr 2004

New Technology Produces Sharper, Stronger Needle

A new needle for use in skin closure following surgery is based on new technology that produces sharper and stronger needles designed to provide a surgeon with more control. More...
27 Apr 2004

Stent to Treat Malignant Biliary Obstruction

A new self-expanding stent is designed to treat the blockage of any duct that caries bile from the liver to the gallbladder or from the gallbladder to the small intestine. More...
20 Apr 2004

Staging Weight Loss Surgery for the Morbidly Obese

A study has shown that a staged approach to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, in which high-risk, mobidly obese patients first undergo a procedure called laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), greatly reduces operative risk and results in significant short-term weight loss. More...
13 Apr 2004
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