Minimally invasive heart procedures like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip placement to treat mitral regurgitation can improve quality of life, and even be lifesaving, for ...

Inclusion criteria: patient requiring tracheostomy; 16-years or older; diagnosis of post-intubation benign laryngeal and/or tracheal stenosis; no previous history of airway reconstruction surgery.

Repeated measurements are taken at the upper and lower borders of the stenosis and tracheostoma, if present, and lastly at the level of the carina (Figure 6). In order to program the surgery correctly ...

Lesion locations included a unilateral M1-segment lesion in five patients; and ipsilateral internal carotid artery (ICA)-T, M1 and A1 lesions with contralateral supraclinoid ICA stenosis in one ...

As part of a quality improvement process, data were reviewed for all children less than 1 year old who underwent congenital cardiac or great vessel surgery between October 1, 2010, and October 24 ...

Taking steps to protect the eye and avoiding certain activities is important during recovery from cataract surgery. These include avoiding bending over and vigorous sneezing or coughing.

What is stenosis after gastric bypass surgery? After gastric bypass surgery for weight loss, the new connection between the stomach pouch and the small intestine may narrow. This is called an ...

An eight-year-old boy underwent a surgery for primary tracheal schwannoma, a rare neurogenic tumour affecting trachea, at G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial (GKNM) Hospital recently. The boy hailing ...

patients in the aggressive angioplasty group because of dissection (n=11), severe residual stenosis (n=1), or acute thrombosis during surgery (n=1) (P=0.040). A residual stenosis rate of >30% was ...

This most recent retrospective examination has not only demonstrated ongoing success of early tracheal extubation following surgery for congenital heart disease, but more importantly has ...