Even when operations are successful, complications can arise afterwards. Millions of these procedures are performed every year around the world, and in many cases, patients get an infection in the ...

Research presented at the American Society of Retina Specialists conference found that vitreoretinal surgery had cost and health implications in both Europe and the United States. Researchers at the ...

—A recent Australian study sought to determine the impact of COPD and smoking on post-operative pulmonary complications following lung cancer resection. Reviewed by Ware Kuschner, MD, Professor of ...

In a recent study published on the preprint server medRxiv,* scientists compare post-surgical complications before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The findings from this ...

Surgeons in Germany have shown a small technical change to keyhole surgery for prostate cancer can more than halve one of the most common post-operative complications – where lymphatic fluid collects ...

Machine learning–based liquid biomarker analysis from the NEONAX trial for response prediction to perioperative (PO) and adjuvant (A) gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel in ...

(SALT LAKE CITY)—Patients who have post-operative complications following high-risk surgery have a significantly lower risk of being readmitted to the hospital within 30 days if they go see their ...

Ozempic, Mounjaro and other GLP-1s do not increase the risk of surgical complications, according to research published May 14 in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. Nearly a year after the American ...

A history of at least one fall in the six months prior to a surgical procedure predicts postoperative complications and elevated readmission risk, according to an article in JAMA Surgery. Researchers ...

Policy-makers are being urged to take notice of a study that confirms that undertaking a short program of high intensity interval training before surgery can substantially help with recovery.