Home Past Issues Search Hospital Profile Subscribe Advertise Contact Us  Making The Rounds   Clinical Update  Mortality Increases When Bladder Cancer Surgery is Delayed      Researchers in California have found that delaying surgical treatment beyond 12 weeks may... Arm Fractures Ups Risk for Hip Fractures in Older Women      Among older Caucasian women, proximal humeral fractures appear to independently increase the...  Medical Horizons  Investigational Treatment May Improve Pulmonary Hypertension      A small United Kingdom study suggests that trans-catheter treatment of pulmonary regurgitation... An Alternative to Hernia Repair After Solid-Organ Transplant      A study published in the March 2009 Archives of Surgery suggests that laparoscopic...  Through The Pipeline  Reducing Severity of Adhesions After Pediatric Open-Heart Surgery      The FDA has announced the approval of a new synthetic film barrier (Repel-CV, SyntheMed, Inc.)... Identifying Patients Who Will Adhere to Postoperative Rehab      Increased patient activation has been associated with improved adherence with physical therapy in patients undergoing lumbar spine surgery. [ More ]  In The News  Lung Transplants & the Impact of Age      Johns Hopkins researchers have found that lung transplantation may be used with caution in patients aged 60 and older but should not be used for patients older than 70. The study, published in the March 2009 Journal of the American College of Surgeons, reported that age greater than 60 in lung transplantation was associated with a 37% increased risk of death. [ More ] CABG Trumps PCI in Some Cases      CABG surgery appears to be a better option than PCI for patients with diabetes and for those aged 65 and older because it leads to lower mortality, according to a study published in the April 4, 2009 issue of The Lancet. However, the authors noted that mortality was similar between CABG and PCI groups in patients without diabetes. [ More ] Assessing Heart & Kidney Transplantation      An analysis from researchers in New York has shown that pre-transplantation patient characteristics appear to determine survival following combined heart and kidney transplantation (HKT). [ More ] June 22, 2009 • Vol. VI, No. 14  In My Opinion...  New Concepts in Coronary Revascularization "Patients and physicians can reference the recommendations to determine whether it’s reasonable to pursue revascularization or other options." MANESH R. PATEL, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Cardiology   Duke University Clinical Research Institute To sign up for our FREE PW e-newsletter, click HERE To get Physician's Weekly posted in your hospital, click HERE Home | Past Issues | Search | Subscribe | Advertise | Contact Us Back To Top © 2009 Physician’s Weekly, LLC Web Applications by Spindustry Systems