Surgery

Melissa Bagloo, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, talks about examples of diabetes, saying that some patients with the disease are able to come off their medications only days after weight loss surgery.

Dr. Marc Bessler talks about medical treatment for weight loss isn't effective because there is currently no way to manage appetite well enough, but surgery can have effects that permanently change a patient's hunger.

Patients with compensated cirrhosis, defined by a Child-Pugh (CP) score of <8, have no significant increase in postoperative mortality and morbidity following cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass.

Older adults recovering from an infection are at increased risk of being hospitalized for a venous thromboembolism (VTE).

Women surgically treated for human papillomavirus (HPV)-related disease who were previously vaccinated with the quadrivalent HPV vaccine have reduced incidence of subsequent HPV-related disease.

Compared with routine care, an aggressive-care approach to the treatment of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), which follows the Brain Trauma Foundation guidelines, is estimated to improve quality of life and significantly lower associated costs, regardless of patient age.

Temporal resection surgery reduces the probability of seizures in patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy, compared with continued antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment.

Epilepsy surgery is a beneficial procedure, resulting in sustained quality of life and better long-term seizure control for patients, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in Epilepsia.

More effective management of rheumatoid arthritis with medication may be contributing to a decline in the need for joint surgery in patients with the condition, Mayo Clinic researchers have found.

The risk of early death for live liver donors is 1.7 per 1,000 donors, and long-term mortality is similar to that of healthy individuals, according to a study published in the February issue of Gastroenterology.

Based on reports of a disturbingly high rate of significant intraoperative hyponatremia during major pediatric craniofacial surgery, researchers at Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, Australia, embarked on a study to establish the incidence, severity, and associated risk factors of hyponatremia during and after major craniofacial surgery for craniosynostosis in their institution.

Most men who undergo robotic prostate surgery believe they will spend less time in the hospital and return to sexual functionality more quickly than if they had traditional surgery, despite a lack of conclusive evidence supporting these beliefs, researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found.

In this video, Allan Stewart, MD, assistant professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, discusses transcatheter valve therapy (TVT), which he calls the most significant recent advance in cardiac surgery.

Researchers have mined a national database to create and validate a risk calculator for perioperative pulmonary complications.

The use of preoperative magnetic resonance imaging can help guide surgical decisions that may spare nerves in men with prostate cancer undergoing robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy, according to a study published online Jan. 24 in Radiology.

In this video, Hiroo Takayama, MD, PhD, assistant professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, discusses when primary care physicians and general cardiologists should refer patients to heart failure specialists.

Doctors may be halting use of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) medications too early in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who are set to undergo surgery, researchers at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City have found.

Plastic surgery is undeniably a growth industry in the US, but along with its popularity has come a series of scandals that illuminate the potential dangers of the surgical pursuit of beauty.

In this video, Roman Nowygrod, MD, FACS, professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, discusses the challenge of abdominal aortic aneurysms, which tend to be asymptomatic until they are close to rupture and have a very high death rate if they do rupture.

In this video, Beth A. Schrope, MD, PhD, assistant professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, discusses the sleeve gastrectomy weight-loss procedure and its advantages over gastric bypass and gastric banding surgeries.