Surgery

Despite their similar names, the traditional butt lift surgery and the new Brazilian butt lift both address different body aesthetic concerns.

Allowing teens and young adults to boost their confidence through cosmetic enhancements is an amazing gift, but cosmetic surgery is not child's play.

Robert T. Grant, MD, MSc, FACS, debunks the top 5 myths he has faced on liposuction, as well as the facts every patient should know before undergoing the procedure.

Plastic surgery still has a very negative stigma, despite the fact that there were more than 14.6 million cosmetic procedures performed in 2012 alone.

A recent anonymous survey among nephrologists suggests that patients' social support, ability to understand the transplant process, and age are the most important factors influencing nephrologists' decisions to exclude them from kidney transplant referral.

Although 3-year survival and cancer recurrence rates are comparable for patients who have laparoscopic or open surgery at any stage of colon cancer, older patients who undergo a laparoscopic procedure have a significantly less likelihood of being admitted to a nursing home compared to those who have open surgical resection.

With a skilled surgeon at the helm, reasonable expectations, and a firm understanding of the various options available for breast augmentation surgery, a woman can expect to obtain breasts that will fool even the most trained eye.

Though a man doesn't face the same hormonal changes with aging that affect a woman's weight and muscle mass, his clock is still ticking away.

Study results presented at CHEST 2013 show that patients given beta-blockers may actually be at increased risk of having an adverse cardiac event during a noncardiac surgical procedure.

Less-invasive plastic surgery will get rid of targeted problem areas just in time for the holiday season.

Robert T. Grant, MD, MSc, FACS, debunks 10 common myths about plastic surgery, such as the safety of Botox injections and breast augmentation.

A research team explains the relationship between economic indicators and patients' propensity to undergo cosmetic procedures.

Though it's common medical knowledge that an ulcer eating a hole through a patient's stomach requires immediate surgical treatment as a result of its life-threatening nature, new findings from a team of Danish researchers urge physicians to beat the clock in performing emergency surgery on perforated peptic ulcers (PPU).

Study finds hyponatremia is an independent predictor of increased mortality, length of hospital stay, and postoperative complications in patients who undergo cardiac surgery.

Transoral incisionless fundoplication (TIF) was shown to be more effective than taking the maximal proton pump inhibitor (PPI) dose in relieving heartburn, regurgitation, and other troublesome symptoms in patients with refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved Kcentra [prothrombin complex concentrate (human)] for the urgent reversal of anticoagulation induced by vitamin K antagonist (VKA) therapies such as warfarin in adult patients with acute major bleeding.

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.

The Microsoft Kinect and Nintendo Wii are quickly proving themselves in the medical world as effective tools in prevention of patient falls.

Patients in a happy marriage were three times more likely to be alive15 years following coronary bypass surgery than patients who were single.

The key to managing opioid-induced constipation is early recognition of the problem.

A team of interventional cardiologists in Montreal is testing a new device designed to treat patients suffering from refractory angina.

Notes of groundbreaking neurosurgeon turns up documentation of his own surgical mishaps as well as his suggestions for preventing such mistakes.

A video and animated overview of a laparoscopic surgical technique used in the treatment of GERD.

Listen as Jerry Reeves, MD, discusses the complications that can arise in administering anesthesia to elderly patients.

Surgeons at UNC Health Care and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.