Parkinson's disease, osteoarthritis, rheumatic diseases, alcoholism and mental health disorders increase the risk of surgical complications after a hip fracture surgery, a new Finnish study analyzing ...

Even when operations are successful, complications can arise afterwards. Millions of these procedures are performed every year around the world, and in many cases, patients get an infection in the ...

—A recent Australian study sought to determine the impact of COPD and smoking on post-operative pulmonary complications following lung cancer resection. Reviewed by Ware Kuschner, MD, Professor of ...

In a recent study published on the preprint server medRxiv,* scientists compare post-surgical complications before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The findings from this ...

Machine learning–based liquid biomarker analysis from the NEONAX trial for response prediction to perioperative (PO) and adjuvant (A) gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel in ...

The study, a retrospective review of adult post-operative complications from a U-M Department of Anesthesiology database from 2001 to 2005, examined and analyzed the complications of 6,773 patients.

McMaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. McMaster University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. If you’ve had a surgery postponed due to ...

Orthopedic surgeons have developed two new prediction tools aimed at identifying total hip and knee replacement patients who are at-risk of developing serious complications after surgery. "Improved ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is scheduled to undergo a digestive endoscopy on Wednesday, as medical teams ...