Documents tagged with percutaneous

Less exposure to radiation

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  • kurtthorsten published this 06 / 14 / 2007
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Video capsule instead of breakfast - Ideas For Surgery

May 19, 2007 Video capsule instead of breakfast Will frequent video endoscopic evaluation help to detect more serious diseases in the digestive tract? Can capsule endoscopy technology be refined to...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 27 / 2007
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Drug coated stent program terminated - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

May 15, 2007 Drug coated stent program terminated Are stents really effective in preventing heart arteries from occlusion? Is the hype about metal mesh tubes in arteries just another temporary def...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 15 / 2007
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Sutureless vascular grafting - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

May 14, 2007 Sutureless vascular grafting How can end-to-end anastomosis be done in a minimally invasive way? What are the requirements in tensile strength, and durability, of the anastomosis for b...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 13 / 2007
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All in vein - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

May 12, 2007 All in vein How does the minimally invasive treatment of varicose veins evolve? Is sclerotherapy a promising therapeutic alternative? Will the trend to treatment at ambulatory outpati...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 12 / 2007
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No Fix For Stent-grafts EVAR - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

May 7, 2007 No Fix for Stent-grafts Are stents and stent-grafts at an evolutionary dead-end? Do extended suprarenal stents with more flexibility lead to more acute fixation? Will a shorter sealing...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 07 / 2007
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Medicare folds stents - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

May 4, 2007 Medicare folds stents One quarter of the 700,000 stroke cases reported annually in the United States are believed to be related to the clogging of the carotid artery with cholesterol d...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 04 / 2007
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Patents going open source - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

May 3, 2007 Patents going open source th How will the April 30 ruling of the High Court affect the issuance of new patents? Is the open-source world getting bigger? What effect does it have on med...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 03 / 2007
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No Scar Not Far - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

April 30, 2007 No Scar Not Far If in April 2007 a patient needs to decide on how to treat GERD, what will be the treatment of choice? Will the patient go on the internet and look up state-of-the-ar...
  • kurtthorsten published this 04 / 30 / 2007
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Harpoon hooks holding or missing the mark - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

www.IdeasForSurgery.com Further…the future ain’t what it used to be. April 9, 2007 Coronary artery bypass CBG surgery with devices for facilitated anastomosis – harpoon hooks holding or missing the...
  • kurtthorsten published this 04 / 10 / 2007
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Out of the fox hole - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

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  • kurtthorsten published this 04 / 03 / 2007
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Artery scaffolds condemned - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

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  • kurtthorsten published this 04 / 02 / 2007
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