SURGICAL TREATMENT OF MITRAL VALVE DISEASE IN THE ELDERLY

became severe in the systole. Motion recordings of herright ventricle were useful for diagnosis.A severe calcification of the tricuspid valve wasobserved in our case, but the other three valves w erenot calcified. There was no tricuspid stenosi[r]

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malalignment, and regain mobility more expediently [3-7].Patient satisfaction through increased joint mobilityhas been the primary outcome measure in numerousstudies that examined the current therapeutic protocolsfor treating DRF [8-13] and protocols supplementedwith prolonged d[r]

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Robotic Cardiac Surgery
Alan P. Kypson, MD, L. Wiley Nifong, MD,
W. Randolph Chitwood Jr., MD
Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Brody School of Medicine,
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

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REVIEW Open AccessIs surgical intervention more effective than non-surgical treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome?a systematic reviewQiyun Shi1,2*and Joy C MacDermid2,3AbstractBackground: Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common disorder in hand surgery practice. Both surgica[r]

Describing the morphological characteristic of multilevel thoracic and lumbar vertebral fractures in which surgical treatments are indicated at Da Nang Hospital; evaluating the outcome of surgical treatment for multilevel thoracic and lumbar vertebral fractures at Da Nang Hospital.