Category Archives: Surgery
Innovative strategy to prepare the liver before surgery
When a patient undergoes surgery liver under temporary vascular exclusion, resection, vascular reconstruction or transplantation, surgeons are forced to partially obstruct blood flow during the operation. This process, which occurs in organ ischemia followed by restoration of circulation (reperfusion) is extremely damaging to the tissue, which produces cellular damage associated with inflammation and oxidative stress, [...]
Those Obsessed with a Perfect Body?
These individuals tend to show excessive concern, convinced that they have serious defects, but in reality these are minimums, obsessed with a perfect body to the point that constantly consulted the plastic surgeon. In these cases, the surgeon should refuse and refer the patient to a psychologist or psychiatrist for treatment. But instead, we observed [...]
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder
ore and more people are obsessed with a perfect image and exposed to an operation provided be “nicer.” But at what price? Learn to accept that which is, can help eliminate unnecessary surgery that put lives at risk. So what is body dysmorphic disorder? Knife Addiction: How does it manifest body dysmorphic disorder? – There [...]
Best Back Surgery Options for Patients
In the current scenario a large number of people are suffering from the problems of back pain and in this regard they have to have different types of back surgery performed by the specialists for better treatment and in order to recover form the back pain at the earliest. The chances of a successful spinal [...]
Addiction to Cosmetic Surgery
Addiction to beauty and interventions is a rising problem called body dysmorphic disorder. Increasingly, women and men seeking a perfect image and exposed to an operation be provided “prettiest.” But at what price? Learn to accept that which is, can help eliminate unnecessary surgery that put lives at risk. Addiction to cosmetic surgery: In search [...]
Treatment after Rhinoplasty Surgery
Rhinoplasty is surgery that aims to solve the aesthetic problems of the nose called “hump” of septum deviation, among other deformities. Although it is an outpatient surgery and local anesthesia is necessary to take some care during the postoperative to have good results. They are normal bruising and swelling in the nose, eyelids and surrounding [...]
Bariatric Surgery, Only A Matter of Weight?
The weight loss obtained is not all that matters after bariatric surgery, to check the effectiveness of the operation must take into account other aspects such as improvement in quality of life for patients. That is the main conclusion of a study appearing this week in the pages of the journal Archives of Surgery. The [...]
New Obese Surgery Through the Mouth
U.S. doctors are experimenting with a new type of surgery for obese that does not require cuts in the abdomen, which involves threading a tube the size of a garden hose through the throat to remove material in the stomach. The operation, in the experimental stage, creates a narrow channel that slows the movement of [...]
Surgery for Obesity May Ease Bones
The surgery to fight obesity not only reduces but also offer lower thigh bones, a study from the Mayo Clinic. Doctors do not know yet what is the probability that the bones of patients enough to impair fracture in the years after the operation, but one of the first attempts to determine duplicate operations suggests [...]
Single Port Surgery for Colon Tumor
This complete right hemicolectomy is “the first of its kind in the world, as in the international literature has not reported any case of gastrointestinal cancer pathology”, says Salvador Morales Conde, coordinator of the Laparoscopic Surgery Unit, responsible for this pioneering intervention. The patient, a man of 59 years, started a liquid diet the second [...]