Archive for February, 2010

Introduction to Palliative Surgery

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Introduction to Palliative Surgery

Cancer is a disease that is developing in society with increasing frequency, one of the main causes is the lifestyle of people, many times surgery is one of the most used techniques to cure this disease, but there are several types of surgeries that are enhanced in patients with cancer.

Here we discuss opportunities that palliative surgery is one of the most commonly used as a method of cancer prevention, but there are others such as prophylactic surgery, diagnostic surgery, surgery of stratification, curative surgery among the most prominent.

Palliative surgery is applied in some situations where the patient has advanced disease, the purpose of this surgery is to alleviate the cancer but not cure the disease in its entirety.

Some of the effects that can result from cancer, are pain, obstruction of the patient’s motor function, disability, surgery in this case seeks to alleviate these symptoms, to give a better quality of life for the patient, is also used as a support tool when performing chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

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Prostate Surgery

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Prostate Surgery

Prostate Surgery: Traditional or Laparoscopic?

Science and medicine has advanced greatly in recent years, research and large companies increasingly invest money in creating new remedies as well as equipment and techniques to cure specific diseases, but new developments are better than traditional techniques?

According to research conducted by the Cancer Center Memorial Sloan Kettetions in New York, United States, the laparoscopic technique with help of a robot, would not provide better results than traditional surgery to treat prostate cancer.

In the prior art, to remove the prostate gland cancer, it must make an incision in the abdomen of 15 cm with the laparoscopic technique, several incisions are made in the patient’s abdominal area in order to introduce the means to make such surgery is also a camera.

But it offered no data studies very different in what concerns the death rate of patients or postoperative complications, the patient always has the option of selecting which method is preferred

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Treat Obesity in Adolescents

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Treat Obesity in Adolescents

To treat obesity in adolescents is better to perform a surgery that exercise and diet

Obesity is becoming a disease that brings severe consequences, are increasing every day more people suffer, especially children and adolescents.

For this disease there are several treatments, the most commonly used with diet, exercise and surgery, but according to studies of surgery would be best suited to treat this disease in adolescents.

Obese, underwent surgery in order to reduce your stomach so that they ingest less food, another group was subjected to a strict diet in addition to exercise, however teenagers best results obtained were subjected to surgery.
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How Safe is Cosmetic Surgery?

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

How safe is cosmetic surgery?

Cosmetic surgery has become a controversial issue lately, mainly due to recent cases about the bad results obtained by some people who treat individuals were left without adequate training.

You guidance on the realities around plastic surgery.

Fact 1: Plastic Surgery (aesthetic) is a branch of medicine

Plastic surgery is a branch of medicine to which he devoted four or five years just to get the specialty of plastic surgery, aesthetic and reconstructive additional to those that were studied to become a physician and surgeon. Plastic surgery has in turn with two sub-specialties: aesthetics and reconstructive. Regardless of the branch, any plastic surgery treatment should be performed by a specialist, certified by the Mexican Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic force constantly re-certification.
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Types of Pterygium

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

The pterigium may be large or small, wide or narrow, more or less swollen but the shape is quite characteristic. The vast majority of times we see it located on the inside of the eye (on the nose). He is always on the horizontal axis, or coming from the left or right but never up or down.

The injury that eventually leads to pterygium called pinguecula and consists of a degeneration of conjunctival tissue that is aa the izuierda or right of the cornea. It is believed to be due, at least in part, to sun exposure. Often goes unnoticed and is seen as a somewhat elevated, yellowish nodule. You can have one or two pingueculae and have no symptoms ever.

In most cases their growth is self-limited and is really small. Sometimes the pterygium may become red and cause irritation and discomfort. Only cases of significant inflammation or when grown dangerously toward the center of the cornea is treated surgically as it alters vision.

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Plastic Surgery for Acne

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Plastic Surgery for Acne

With growing years, it has the problem of acne too. Acne has always been a concern for teens, but now there are also people who receive adult until age 40. Acne usually occurs on the face, neck, chest and back. It is usually caused by the sebaceous glands are at play in the first years due to hormonal changes. The sebum is released from oil by the sebaceous glands and when it combines with bacteria in the skin, it causes inflammation around the area and hence, acne.

Although mild to moderate acne can be treated with medication, severe acne can be difficult to remove. For severe acne, which causes scars that are not treatable, plastic surgery is one of the best possible methods of treatment. Plastic surgery for acne, also known as plastic surgery, is more concerned about improving your appearance and make the scar problem. In this surgery, people with acne can use the skin peeling or laser treatment to get rid of acne.
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You know what is the Pterygium?

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

what is the Pterygium?

Pterygium is a very common ocular abnormality. It is known as “nail” or “palm” but its technical name is pterygium. In the ocular surface is the cornea and conjunctiva. Between the cornea and conjunctiva is a fairly sharp boundary, the shape of a circle. Inside she found the cornea has no blood vessels and is transparent so you usually do not appreciate. Outside the circle is the conjunctiva that has blood vessels and we see white.

The pterygium see it as a kind of “invasion”. The conjunctiva invades the cornea, is a tip of conjunctival tissue that grows bigger from the outside of the cornea toward the center. These cells and blood vessels from the conjunctiva that are introduced, invading and placed in front of the cornea. Typically it is a kind of wedge or triangle with the apex pointing towards the pupil. Because the cornea is normally invisible seems that mounts on the iris but actually located in the cornea.

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Mohs Micrographic Surgery

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Mohs Micrographic Surgery

Plastic Surgery is now a formidable ally to repair some physical deformities. It restores the joy of living persons mined by their complex. It is also capable of repairing the skin of people who were unable to withstand repeated sun exposure, which resulted in skin lesions.

Micrographic Surgery Skin: Reassuring and Refined Aesthetic

Rare truly innovative technique for sixty years in one area – reconstructive plastic surgery – where progress is exponential. However, Surgery Micrographic was first a revolution across the Atlantic. This medicine is meant to restore health and beauty of his patients especially after sun exposure.
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What is Hypertension?

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

What is Hypertension?

Hypertension is increasing pressure numbers (blood) pressure above certain values that change with age.

Usually said that a person has hypertension where three measurements at random for a month, their values are higher than 140 mmHg systolic blood pressure (SBP or commonly the “high”) and 90 mmHg diastolic blood pressure (DBP or “low”).

The Hypertension is not a disease in itself but is a risk factor for various diseases such as myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction or stroke.

It is important to have controlled blood pressure numbers to avoid different complications of disease and risk for suffering another. There are 2 types of hypertension:

* Essential hypertension: the most common and that is 90% of the population
* Secondary hypertension: to some underlying disease (pej pheochromocytoma)

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