Sixty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Laporte was diagnosed with knee arthritis 15 years ago. For years, she kept the pain under control with steroid injections and physical therapy, but when she began ...
Bariatric surgery is a life-altering experience. No matter which weight loss surgery you choose, the procedure is expensive and will require that you make big changes to your lifestyle. As with any ...
Marijuana use is common among patients considering plastic surgery and is associated with elevated nicotine levels on laboratory tests, reports a paper in the September issue of Plastic and ...
Once the knee is repaired, the surgeon will remove the instruments and close the incisions with sutures, derma bond (surgical glue), and Steri-Strips. After the Surgery Following the procedure, you ...
1 Cardiac surgery has been slow to adopt this approach even though initial efforts began ... Robotic platforms have enabled surgeons to offer totally endoscopic valve procedures using the built-in 3D ...