Un dispositivo magnético implantado podría ofrecer una nueva opción de tratamiento a las personas con acidez crónica que no se controla con medicamentos, sugiere un pequeño estudio.
20-Year-Old Tiernee Gonzalez Begins Producing Urine Day Before Scheduled Surgery to Implant Permanent Catheter. At only 20 years old, Tiernee Gonzalez has been battling two major diseases for most of her young life: heart failure and kidney failure. When she became the first patient at Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center to receive the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart on Nov. 9, her doctors hoped it would bring her one step closer to winning her battle against end-stage heart failure. What they didn t expect, was that it would also help save her one remaining kidney
Furthering its commitment to advancing the treatment of patients diagnosed with ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease), Argon Medical Devices, Inc. takes another leap forward with the launch of the Cleaner15 Rotational Thrombectomy System. The addition of Cleaner15 to Argon Medical s product portfolio provides physicians with another weapon in their arsenal to safely and effectively restore patency in occluded arteriovenous fistulae and synthetic grafts.
Societies form new foundation, collaborate on multicenter trial to improve patient care
Patients who received minimally invasive treatment with yttrium-90 (Y-90) radioactive beads to treat colorectal cancer that had spread to the liver lived almost a year longer compared to those who received the standard of care therapy, data presented at the 5th annual Symposium on Clinical Interventional Oncology, in collaboration with the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) has suggested.
Varian Medical Systems has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the company s Edge radiosurgery suite, a new dedicated system for performing advanced radiosurgery using real-time tumour tracking and motion management technologies.
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SRI) — an international group comprised of physicians, scientists and other allied health professionals — joined the Rethink Varicose Veins alliance to aid in the broadening of public awareness regarding the risks of varicose veins and chronic venous insufficiency.
Siemens Healthcare has developed a new X-ray tube and detector technology for its Artis Q and Artis Q.zen angiography systems intended to improve minimally invasive therapy for coronary artery disease, stroke and cancer.
New Breakthrough Report Reaffirms Proton Therapy Efficacy; Post-Treatment Quality of Life on Par with Men Never Afflicted by Cancer. A staggering 99 percent of prostate cancer patients treated with proton therapy believe they made the best treatment decisions for themselves, according to a new report released today at the National Proton Conference in Washington, D.C. The report analyzed outcomes and satisfaction of approximately 6,400 prostate cancer patients, more than 80 percent of whom received treatment at Loma Linda University Medical Center’s (LLUMC) James M. Slater Proton Treatment and Research Center
A study by Bruce McLucas, University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA, and published ahead-of-print in Minimally Invasive Therapy has said that women who desire future fertility could be considered for uterine artery embolization. He reported the outcomes of his patient cohort who became pregnant after the procedure.
In a presentation at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET; 19–23 January 2013, Miami, USA) Matthew Johnson, Indiana University, Indiana, USA spoke to delegates about the trends in using inferior vena cava filters in the USA.
ReCor Medical has received the CE mark for its next-generation Paradise system, a minimally invasive 6Fr over-the-wire (OTW) ultrasound device for treating resistant high bloodpressure. Additionally, the treatment parameters of this new device have been further enhanced to reduce energy delivery to 30 seconds by maximising cooling of the endothelium and efficiently treating the nerves circumferentially.
Longest Retrospective Study of HIFU Patients to Date Published Confirms Benefits of Treatment
Nordion has announced that it is hosting an educational symposium: “The expanding role of radioembolization for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.”
Agregar sunitinib a la terapia con fluorouracilo, leucovorina e irinotecán (FOLFIRI) no mejora el resultado en pacientes con cáncer colorrectal metastásico sin tratar.
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