Today, patients who receive an organ transplant need repeated surgical biopsies to test for acute cellular rejection (ACR) throughout their lifetimes. But a blood test for ACR could be on the hor...
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Children with liver transplants must take immunosuppressant medications for life. To maintain tolerance of the transplanted liver, doctors treat transplant rejection and conduct ongoing maintenan...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-probe-immune-microenvironment-pediatric-liver.html
Health care providers and patients have traditionally thought that infections patients get while in the hospital are caused by superbugs they're exposed to while they're in a medical facility. Ge...
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A new study reveals diminished quality of life among patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia, a severe form of peripheral artery disease, and emphasizes the benefits of revascularization ...
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For heart attack patients, treating only the coronary artery that caused the infarction works just as well as preventive balloon dilation of the other coronary arteries, according to a new large ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-angioplasty-prognosis.html
A new approach to the guidance, planning and conduct of heart bypass surgery has been successfully tested on patients for the first time in a clinical trial coordinated by a research team at Univ...
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The results of a pioneering study support the safety of the bioimplants called PeriCord, made from stem cells of the umbilical cord and pericardium from a tissue donor, which aid in the regenerat...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-clinical-trial-cardiac-bioimplants-treatment.html
For the past several years, Washington University in St. Louis researchers have been using focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles to target an opening in the tough, protective blood-brain ...
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Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center showed that altering the sequence of breast cancer treatment to administer radiation before mastectomy allowed for concurrent brea...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-mastectomy-delays-reconstructive-surgery-breast.html
It is possible to leave most of the lymph nodes in the armpit, even if one or two of them have metastases larger than two millimeters. This is shown in a trial enrolling women from five countries...
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In the medicine of the future, tiny robots will navigate independently through tissue and medical instruments will indicate their position inside the body during surgery. Both require doctors to ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-method-miniature-robots-surgical-instruments.html
In a 10-center study, microwave ablation offered progression-free survival rates and fewer complications than surgery in the treatment of a form of thyroid cancer known as papillary thyroid carci...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-minimally-invasive-procedure-patients-thyroid.html
A systematic review of 35 years of global medical literature finds a spectrum of reasons why people sell kidneys. The study, by Bijaya Shrestha of the Center for Research on Education, Health and...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-poverty-main-people-kidney.html
Delaying surgical inguinal hernia repair in preterm infants until after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) appears to reduce the likelihood of serious adverse events, accordin...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-late-surgical-preterm-babies-born.html
A team of Georgia Tech researchers has introduced a new therapeutic system to offset the poor clinical outcomes often associated with common rotator cuff surgery.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-cell-based-treatment-muscle-rotator.html
Black patients in need of a heart transplant may be less likely to receive one than white patients, according to a new study led by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-black-men-heart-transplant-white.html
QUT scientists have developed a deep learning framework to detect shoulder abnormalities such as fractures in X-ray images with 99% accuracy to enable clinicians to make correct and speedy decisi...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-deep-enables-faster-accurate-decisions.html
Doctors in Boston have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient, the latest experiment in the quest to use animal organs in humans.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-surgeons-transplant-gene-pig-kidney.html
The dural membrane (dura) is the outermost of three meningeal layers that line the central nervous system (CNS), which includes the brain and spinal cord. Together, the meninges function as a sho...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-highly-adhesive-mechanically-strong-multiple.html
Removal of cancerous tumors, or resection, in delicate areas like the head and neck is a challenge for even the most experienced surgeons. When removing cancerous tissue, the aim is to preserve a...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-robotic-surgeon-precisely-cancerous-tumors.html
Research led by Amsterdam UMC across 10 Dutch hospitals and two Italian hospitals has found that not placing a drain during surgery improves outcomes in patients undergoing a left-sided pancreati...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-distal-pancreatectomy-outcomes.html
Eating fatty food in the days leading up to surgery may prompt a heightened inflammatory response in the brain that interferes for weeks with memory-related cognitive function in older adults—a...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-fatty-food-surgery-impair-memory.html
More than 20 million Americans undergo colonoscopy screenings every year, and in many of those cases, doctors end up removing polyps that are 2 cm or larger and require additional care. This proc...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-sprayable-gel-minimally-invasive-surgeries.html
Researchers led by Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new, first-of-its-kind sticker that enables clinicians to monitor the health ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-shifting-ultrasound-stickers-surgical-complications.html
With technology developed at UC Riverside, scientists can, for the first time, make high resolution images of the human spinal cord during surgery. The advancement could help bring real relief to...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-doctors-spinal-cord-surgery.html
For soft tissue to recover and regrow, it needs blood vessels to grow to deliver oxygen and nutrients. Sluggish vascularization, however, can slow or even prevent recovery and regrowth of lost or...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-combining-biomaterial-microsurgery-enable-faster.html
Safety concerns for patients undergoing anesthesia who use glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), which are medications approved for diabetes and weight management, were revealed ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-weight-loss-diabetes-drug-linked.html
Degenerative arthritis is no longer exclusive to the elderly population. According to the National Health Insurance Service report covering the years from 2012 to 2022, there has been a 22.8% inc...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-implant-coating-triggers-antibiotic-response.html
A University of Cincinnati Cancer Center study has found that real-time navigation is a useful tool for surgeons performing ablation procedures to destroy tumors in the liver.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-real-tool-liver-cancer-procedures.html
A new Yale study finds an increased risk of hospital readmission for older Americans within 180 days of undergoing major surgery—a risk that is particularly acute for individuals who are frail ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-hospital-readmission-surgery-high-older.html