Surgical Developments - Page 2
Stay up to date with the latest Surgical Developments updates from the global hospital industryResearchers Develop Synthetic Bone Material
Researchers at UMass Medical School, US, have developed an inexpensive, synthetic bone material that can be used to repair complex fractures and large areas of bone loss. Researchers created...
Canadian Surgeons Perform World's First Robotic Surgery and Anaesthesia
Surgeons at McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) in Canada have performed the world's first completely robotic surgery and anaesthesia. The surgeons used the DaVinci surgical robot and...
Artificial Pancreatic Tissue Offers Hope for Diabetics
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital, US, have developed a bio-artificial matrix that could serve as a scaffold for pancreatic islets and supportive stem cells. The researchers found...
NovaBone Receives FDA Approval for Bone Graft Delivery System
NovaBone Products has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its NovaBone Putty MIS delivery system, which improves the delivery of bone grafting material in minimally...
Italian Boy Becomes First Child to Receive an Artificial Heart
A 15-year-old boy has become the first child to receive an artificial heart, following a ten-hour operation at Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital in Rome. Artificial hearts are usually...
World's First Face Transplant Patient Leaves Hospital
The recipient of the world's first full face transplant has been discharged from hospital. The 31-year-old man, identified only as Oscar, received the transplant in a 24-hour operation at...
Vanderbilt Surgeons Replace Heart Valve Without Open Surgery
A technique called transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement, which replaces heart valves without open surgery, has been performed for the first time at the Vanderbilt Paediatric Heart Institute. ...
Texas Children's Hospital Performs First Triple-Organ Transplant
The Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, US, has announced that it has performed its first triple-organ transplant. Surgeons replaced the heart, lungs and liver of a paediatric patient,...
Stem Cell Treatment Used to Cure MS Patient
An experimental new stem cell treatment has been used in Australia on a patient with rapid onset multiple sclerosis (MS). The treatment procedure is similar to rebooting the patient's...
US Hospital to Offer New Bronchial Thermoplasty Procedure
Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia, USA, has said it will be the first hospital in the country to perform a new procedure, the Alair Bronchial Thermoplasty System, to be conducted on...
Radiation Therapy With Surgery Can Reduce Melanoma Recurrence
A combination of radiation therapy and surgery can reduce the recurrence of melanomas that have spread to lymph nodes, a 17-year medical study has found. Melanoma patients who require lymph...
Radiofrequency Could Offer Alternative to Hysterectomies
Radiofrequency ablation, a minimally invasive procedure that involves inserting a needle-like device into uterine fibroids through the abdomen, is being trialled as an alternative for women...
Umbilical Cord May Offer Alternative to Bone Marrow Transplants
A technique that takes "master cells" from an umbilical cord may remove the need for matched bone marrow transplants, according to researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in...
Artificial Muscles May Help Facial Paralysis
Surgeons from UC Davis Medical Center in the US have demonstrated that artificial muscles can be used to restore the ability of patients with facial paralysis to blink. Researchers...
New Brain Scan Can Detect Alzheimer's Disease Early
A new type of brain scan is better at discovering early signs of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study in Italy. The diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) technique may prove important to...
