Dr. McCarthy answers the question: 'What Is Mini-Invasive Vein Harvesting?' — -- Question: What is mini-invasive vein harvesting for bypass surgery? Answer: These days, when we take vein to do ...

Patients with degenerative mitral valve (MV) regurgitation that calls for surgery may, for the most part, safely choose either a standard procedure requiring a midline sternotomy or one performed ...

Minimally invasive heart surgery is still relatively new and relatively rare. Techniques using small incisions to perform delicate heart surgery have been significantly practiced for only about a half ...

Robotics has significantly changed minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in many medical specialties. By adding robotic systems to these procedures, surgeons can work with more accuracy, reach the surgical ...

Kidney stones send more than 500,000 people to the emergency room each year, according to The National Kidney Foundation, and it is estimated that one in 10 people will have a kidney stone at some ...

BIDMC's surgical team in Boston, MA, offers robotic surgery, a minimally invasive approach that can lead to fewer complications and faster recovery.

Imagine a tiny, untethered needle that can enter the body through an incision no larger than a pin prick to perform biopsies, suture wounds, and even deliver cancer-fighting chemotherapy directly to ...

To make the surgical procedure pretty, mini-invasive surgery [MIS] was introduced. Instead of the large cuts often needed in traditional surgery, MIS uses tiny cuts or no cuts at all. However, MIS ...

A new trial of a minimally invasive surgical approach to removing the hematoma in patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) has shown some encouraging results, despite a neutral primary ...

Would you like to rejuvenate your look subtly? Dr. John Burns offers a less invasive cosmetic procedure known as the mini-facelift. This procedure helps address natural gravitational aging in the mid ...

When surgery is required for the treatment of gynecologic conditions, women today have more options than ever before, with a growing emphasis on minimally invasive procedures – for good reason. At ...

Spine surgery is a broad field encompassing various procedures that help address different spinal conditions. There are various types of spine surgery, including artificial disk replacement and spinal ...