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American surgeons like McCarthy have brought a level of scientific professionalism to Batista's procedure. To be sure, the greatest benefit of U.S. hospitals is the state-of-the-art postoperative care. American doctors also offer a safety net for patients by placing them on a left-ventricular assist device that helps the heart pump blood into the body if the procedure fails. In addition, McCarthy has somewhat changed the procedure. Where Batista does his work on a beating heart, McCarthy stops the heart so he can make cleaner cuts (a common practice in open-heart surgery...
Until now, physicians have been able to offer only palliative care to patients with macular degeneration: more powerful eyeglasses; visual aids, such as machines that enlarge print; and, for a minority of cases--those that involve the invasive growth of blood vessels--laser therapy that sometimes slows down the disease, at least for a time. But only 10% of those in whom macular degeneration is diagnosed develop this more rapidly progressing, invasive form of the disease. For them, experts agree, intervention is needed earlier, before so much visual acuity is lost...
...understandable choice. The institute is the leader among more than 50 in the U.S. that now practice bloodless surgery. Without using any donor blood at all, they offer a wide range of surgical procedures that would ordinarily include transfusions, along with techniques that dramatically reduce, or virtually eliminate, blood loss...
...loss and transfusions: liver resections, hip replacements, abdominal aortic aneurysms, hysterectomies and brain surgery. "From a medical point of view, there are no technical barriers to performing bloodless surgeries," says Dr. Sharo Raissi, a cardiac surgeon at Brotman Medical Center, one of a dozen hospitals in Los Angeles that offer such services. "There is no limit as to what can be done for patients, from open-heart surgery even to transplants...
...Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the project enlists the talents of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, geneticists and ethicists to track the consequences of testing for the genetic mutation that causes deadly Huntington's disease. The program, says Brandt, "is seeking to determine how best to offer this test...