Thoracic Surgery News

A new technique being used by thoracic surgeons at Rush University Medical Center offers a more precise, less invasive and more versatile way of assessing a patienta s lymph nodes and chest tumors to determine if lung cancer has spread to other parts of the body.

The March of Dimes Foundation has awarded a grant of $2,995 to Mission Healthcare Foundation to support the Fetal Alcohol Prevention Education Program provided by the Fullerton Genetics Center of Mission Hospital.

Angela Kelle hasn't finished medical school yet, but already has published seven studies in peer-reviewed medical journals.

Tags Modified thromboelastography evaluation of platelet dysfunction in patients undergoing coronary artery surgery.

Filed under: Cardiac Surgery , ENT , Neurological Surgery , Ob/Gyn , Orthopedic Surgery , Plastic Surgery , Surgery , Thoracic Surgery , Urology , Vascular Surgery By perusing thought the latest stuff coming out of Germany, we found a little press release from Gebrder Martin GmbH & Co.KG, also known as KLS Martin Group, that profiled the company's ...

CHENNAI: The Indian Association for Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeons conferred a lifetime achievement award on K.M.Cherian, founding chairman of Frontier Lifeline Hospital, Chennai.

AKRON, Ohio The Employee Foundation Council at Akron Children's Hospital presented David Andrews, MD, chairman of the department of Surgery at Akron Children's Hospital, with its 2009 Distinguished Service Award.

New Delhi, Feb 27 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday appreciated the Indian medical fraternity for the yeoman service rendered to the people under very difficult conditions with great distinction.

The live telecast of heart surgeries for publicity is likely to end as the Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons came up Friday with guidelines recommending end to such practice.

As part of John Muir Health's Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery program, a minimally invasive thymectomy - removal of the thymus gland - was successfully performed recently at the John Muir Medical Center - Concord Campus.

Dr. Carl Backer, head of cardiovascular-thoracic surgery, performs an open heart procedure at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

Dr. Richard J. Shemin, the Robert and Kelly Day professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and executive vice-chairman of surgery and co-director of the Cardiovascular Center at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, was recently elected director-at-large of the Society of Thoracic Surgeonsa TM ...

For about one percent of Americans, excessive sweating isna t just embarrassing; ita s a condition that warrants medical treatment.

Congressman Sestak Renews Push for Legislation to make VA Inspection Reports Accessible Transparency essential to restore confidence in VAMC following another documented case of substandard care Media, PA - In light of a recently-revealed inspection detailing problems at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center thoracic surgery unit, ...

The staff in a surgical unit at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia was so inattentive that a patient who died on a toilet was not even discovered until his body had turned cold, according to an inspection report obtained by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . The report from the VA's Medical Inspector, obtained under the federal ...

Dr. Joseph Feikes has listed for sale a four-bedroom, three-bath home at 2013 Plaza De Santa Fe in Las Vegas for $549,900. Dr.

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Tags Abstract INTRODUCTION: The impressive results seen when giant and compressing lung bullae are resected has inspired pneumonologists and thoracic surgeons to consider the possibility of applying a similar approach to the treatment of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease .

LifeNet Health, an allograft bio-implant company, has launched the CardioGRAFT decell pulmonary patch with Matracell technology, at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons annual meeting in Ft.

COIMBATORE: Doctors at G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital in the city have prevented a major aneurysm in the aorta, the biggest blood vessel in the body, from turning fatal for a 48-year-old man.