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What treatments are recommended for patients with herniated disks?
Patients with herniated disks are treated surgically if the pain does not respond to medication.
What is the name of the device surgically implanted for a dialysis patients arm?
a fiscula (pronounced: FISH-you-luh).
What is the outcome of Buerger's disease?
The disease is progressive in patients who do not stop smoking. Areas with gangrene must be removed surgically.
Why would you cut the corpus callosum?
The corpus callosum is sometimes surgically cut in a procedure called a corpus callosotomy to reduce the severity and frequency of seizures in patients with severe epilepsy that cannot be controlled with medication. By cutting the corpus callosum, the spread of abnormal electrical activity between the brain's hemispheres is limited, reducing the severity of seizures.
How is advanced hyperparathyroidism cured?
Patients with more advanced hyperparathyroidism will usually have all or half of the affected parathyroid gland or glands surgically removed
Why are those with surgically placed foreign bodies in their brains vulnerable to meningitis?
Similarly, patients who undergo surgical procedures or who have had foreign bodies surgically placed within their skulls (such as tubes to drain abnormal amounts of accumulated CSF) have an increased risk of meningitis.
Doctors cut patients open with a?
Scalpel
How is long term trachoma treated?
Patients with complications from untreated or repeated infections are treated surgically. Surgery can be used for corneal transplantation or to correct eyelid deformities.
What is laser operation?
an operation that uses lasers to cut skin, flesh or cut open patients
Can a cut tendon heal?
No. Just like a torn muscle, it has to be surgically reconnected. _____________________ This is tricky, if it was only cut or torn a minute amount then it can rebuild itself just like a muscle. If it was severed then it needs to be operated on.
What is the prognosis for patients with hammertoe?
If detected early, hammertoe can be treated non-surgically. If surgery becomes necessary, surgical risks are minimal with the overall outcome providing good results
What is amputated?
amputating is when a saurian removes something from a human or a animal
