Unfortunately, when a new procedure such as IDET comes out, many people jump on the bandwagon. In turn, I suspect that this procedure is being done too often and many times for the wrong reasons. The strict indications for who should have the procedure include a person who has failed an aggressive rehabilitation program and who has low back pain without significant extension of pain into the legs. Read more…
Pain
patients, procedure, rehabilitation program
At the time of the second biopsy, 50% of patients had normal GPT, 41% had negative HCV RNA, and 36% had normal GPT and negative HCV RNA. Each of these changes was associated with a statistically significant improvement in Knodell index score compared with continued abnormal GPT or positive HCV RNA. Read more…
Conditions and Diseases
biopsy, hepatitis, patients
Greg Spitz, M.D., a general and vascular surgeon in Aurora, Ill., has developed one of the newest ideas in varicose vein removal.
The TriVex system, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1999, requires just three to four 3-millimeter incisions along the affected vein. The doctor threads a instrument under the vein that illuminates it and injects it with fluid and a mild anesthetic. Read more…
Health
body, dress, patients