Surgery
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Draft ACR Takayasu’s guidelines: Surgery is the last resort
ATLANTA – One of the goals in soon-to-be-published Takayasu’s arteritis guidelines from the American College of...
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Evidence builds for bariatric surgery’s role in cancer prevention
LAS VEGAS – Some patients are trying to reduce their future risk for cancer with the procedure.
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Score predicts bariatric surgery’s benefits for obesity, type 2 diabetes
LAS VEGAS – The calculator can estimate the 10-year risk for death and cardiovascular disease events for patients if their clinical status...
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Mechanical circulatory support in PCI needs clearer guidance
PHILADELPHIA – Two studies found the Impella device in percutaneous coronary intervention led to worse outcomes than intra-aortic balloon pumps....
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ASH releases guidelines on managing cardiopulmonary and kidney disease in SCD
ORLANDO – ASH has released the first of five new sets of sickle cell disease guidelines, with the first focusing on screening and management of...
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Employment is associated with high likelihood of declining epilepsy surgery
BALTIMORE – Case-control study probes the association between various demographic, disease-specific, and epilepsy-...
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New ASH guideline: VTE prophylaxis after major surgery
ORLANDO – The chair of VTE guidelines panel presented highlights of the latest guidelines in a special session at the annual meeting of the...
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Bariatric surgery tied to fewer cerebrovascular events
PHILADELPHIA –
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Perioperative antirheumatic drug use does not impact postsurgery infection rate in RA patients
ATLANTA – A higher Charlson Comorbidity Index and longer surgery time, rather than preop antirheumatic medications, increased risk of infection....
News
Bilateral mastectomy reduces second breast cancer risk, but not deaths
The risk of second contralateral breast cancer is low regardless of primary breast cancer therapy, results of a retrospective study show.