Dr. Hartzell Schaff discusses apical myectomy, a new surgical treatment for patients with severely symptomatic apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Dr. Schaff and colleagues presented a study on apical myectomy at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
ABSTRACT
Objective: Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (ApHCM) is a morphologic variant in which the hypertrophy is primarily localized [...]
Dr. Robert R. Cima provides a surgical demonstration of laparoscopic colectomy and robotically assisted rectal cancer surgery.
A minimally invasive approach is Mayo’s preferred operative approach for both malignant and benign conditions as there are numerous benefits for patients without any compromise in their surgical outcome.
The first laparoscopic colectomy was reported in the literature in 1991. [...]
Dr. David Kallmes discusses a new study that found relief of pain from vertebral compression fractures, as well as improvement in pain-related dysfunction, were similar in patients treated with vertebroplasty and those treated with simulated vertebroplasty without cement injections. The article was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
ABSTRACT
Background: Vertebroplasty is used commonly to [...]
Dr. S. Vincent Rajkumar, Mayo Clinic hematologist, discusses the first systematic study to determine association of Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS) with all diseases in 17,398 patients, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To systematically study the association of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) with all diseases in a population-based cohort of 17,398 patients, [...]
