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06/14/2011
Celebrating a 25-year-old ‘heart’
Initially meant to bridge the gap before a heart transplant is performed, today ventricular assist devices (VADs) are increasingly considered ‘a lasting therapy option’, …
06/14/2011
An all-rounder with many applications
Given the increase in overweight or obese populations (estimated at around 50% in Europe alone), hospital equipment that supports patients must be tried, tested and proved to be …
05/12/2011
Early clinical experience with Edwards intuity valve system
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, a global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring, announced that interim data from a multi-center European prospective …
05/06/2011
Facing the eye of the storm
Major disasters and natural catastrophes occur all the time – but in most cases we are only aware of them as images in the news on our TV screens or in the newspapers. …
04/26/2011
The Confocal Laser Endomicroscope
A new technique to aid the early detection and diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease has been developed by UK and Germans researchers. The Confocal Laser Endomicroscope (CLE) …
04/26/2011
Heart replica ready for human tests
A little over three decades after the world's first human heart transplant (HT), Carmat’s life-size artificial heart, a mix of animal tissue, titanium and missile technology …
04/26/2011
The 12th EFORT Congress
The 12th EFORT Congress, celebrating the 20th year of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, aims to update knowledge of any specialty …
04/20/2011
The best of both worlds
Innovative mobile C-arm solutions by Nuremberg-based Ziehm Imaging are quickly conquering interventional radiology. At this year‘s European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, …
04/20/2011
Widescreen in the operating theatre
State-of-the-art operating theatres are shifting from X-rays to the display of images on monitors. The variety of different picture sources is also increasing, ranging from boom …
04/19/2011
Surgical staplers
Mechanical suturing tools are an indispensable part of modern surgery. Gastro-intestinal surgery as well as minimally invasive surgeries, would be unthinkable without this …
04/19/2011
Human organ donations
You often need the vision of a hypermetropic eagle to find Malta on the world map – even its name fills more space than the representation of the island itself. And yet, in the …
04/19/2011
Role of simulation in surgical training
Rapid technological progress and the changed working patterns of surgeons has greatly increased the demand of simulated training in the United Kingdom, notes Professor Mike …
04/19/2011
The 128th Congress of the German Society of Surgery
The congress slogan is Healing between Rationality and Humanity – that’s the slogan for this year’s German Society of Surgery Congress. Indeed, healing is intentionally …
12/29/2010
Combinations advance endoscopic diagnosis and treatment
Endoscopy has advanced dramatically in the past decade with innovative technologies introduced by industry and novel procedures pioneered by physicians. Given a choice among the …
12/29/2010
New service contracts for reprocessing endoscopy systems
Smooth, flawlessly running reprocessing systems ensure regulatory hygiene standards as well as the constant availability of all endoscopes. To this end, along with the established …
12/29/2010
Leading the field in PAD treatment
Around 18,472 angioplasty procedures and 4,752 stent procedures were completed in Germany in 2008. By comparison, only 7,710 angioplasty procedures and 438 stent procedures were …
12/29/2010
Reasonable complements in cancer therapy
Until now, interventional and endoscopic therapies have held little importance in common cancer treatment. However, given the trend towards personalised medicine and targeted …
12/29/2010
The role of surgery in oncology
Cornelis Van De Velde, Professor of Surgical Oncology at the Leiden University Medical Centre, in the Netherlands, and President of the European Society of Surgical Oncology …
12/28/2010
Transcatheter aortic valve implants bear risks
Every year thousands of patients with less than one year to live are denied a heart valve replacement because they are too frail to undergo surgery. These patients tend to be over …
12/22/2010
Liver Cancer in Cirrhotic Patients Effectively Treated with Radiofrequency Ablation
Researchers from Italy determined that radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a safe and effective therapy for managing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in cirrhotic patients. The high …
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