When an ulcer appeared on his toe in the fall of 2023, Tony Rastall assumed it would heal with routine care. Instead, the small wound marked the beginning of a rapid decline in circulation that ...
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ Leg amputations haven't changed much in a very long time. Civil War-era textbooks describing them look pretty similar to contemporary ones, said Dr. Matthew Carty, a staff ...
A novel surgical technique could dramatically improve walking for people with below-the-knee amputations and help them better control their prosthetics. A study published Monday in Nature Medicine ...
In reconstruction, the question is not whether a limb can be saved. It is whether the life attached to it can be lived. L. Scott Levin, MD, chair emeritus of orthopedic surgery and professor of ...
Yet these amputation procedures receive automatic insurance approval with no questions asked, no prior authorization, and no evidence review. There is no credible medical evidence suggesting that ...
New device expands AtriCure’s market opportunity in post-operative pain management while addressing a significant unmet clinical need Recently cleared under an FDA 510(k), the cryoXT device is ...
Surgical site infection incidence varies considerably among clinically defined procedures in five National Healthcare Safety Network surgery categories, according to a study published in the American ...
Surgery is the primary treatment for soft tissue sarcoma. It aims to remove cancerous tumors from tissues like muscle and fat. The type of surgery needed depends on the tumor’s characteristics, ...
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