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Davis Hospital: A hip approach to surgery

Last updated Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 5:55pm

LAYTON — Surgeons at Davis Hospital and Medical Center are replacing hips with a new technique that promises less patient trauma and a shorter recovery time.

The minimally invasive anterior supine intramuscular approach is done by gaining access to the hip joint through a much shorter incision at the front of the hip instead of on the side or back, said Dr. Matthew Lyman, an orthopedic surgeon at Davis Hospital and Medical Center.

“One thing that patients don’t realize about the anterior supine intramuscular approach, or ASI, for total hip replacement is the importance of the S, or supine,” Lyman said. “The fact that the patient is supine (or on their back facing upward) makes a difference for several reasons. Most importantly, it makes it easy to use live x-ray in the operating room.”

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Gastric bypass surgery becoming more common on less obese people

Irene Maher St. Petersburg Times

Last updated Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 4:00pm

Gone are the days when weight-loss surgery was used only for the morbidly obese -- people who are at least 100 pounds over their ideal weight.

That's because even for less severely overweight people who can't keep the pounds off through conventional means, surgery can be the most effective way to banish certain serious health conditions.

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Bioengineering students Jessica Ashmead (left), 20, and Annicka Carter, 20, sit together on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Thursday. The pair invented the OptiGuide surgical tool as part of a class and won a grant at the Collegiate Inventors Competition in Washington, D.C., to continuing developing the tool.

Fremont grad, partner invent lighted surgical tool

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, November 21, 2011 - 7:11am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Surgeons in the near future may have even better lighting when they cut open a patient, thanks to a Fremont High School graduate.

Jessica Ashmead, who is now a student at University of Utah, was chosen as a finalist in the national Collegiate Inventors Competition after she and her bioengineering partner, Annicka Carter, of Sandy, invented OptiGuide, a specially lighted medical retractor that could be used inside the surgical cavity.

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Angelica Sabuco (right) and her twin sister Angelina draw on paper with the help of their mother, Ginady Sabuco, at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital on Monday in Stanford, Calif. The hospital is preparing for surgical procedure to separate the 2-year-old girls who were born joined at the chest and abdomen. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/The Associated Press)

Conjoined twins successfully separated at Stanford

Lisa M. Krieger San Jose Mercury News

Last updated Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 12:02am

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Two-year-old conjoined twins can finally lead separate lives, after a successful seven-hour surgery by a huge medical team at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Hospital.

In a tearful meeting with the media at the hospital’s entrance late Tuesday afternoon, Angelina and Angelica’s exhausted mother, Ginady Sabuco, said, “I thank God for everything. This is a dream come true.”

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2-year-old conjoined twins prepare for dangerous separation surgery

Lisa M. Krieger San Jose Mercury News

Last updated Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 12:04am

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Stanford surgeons seek to give two sisters a life apart, dividing their shared bodies into two in a long, delicate and risky surgery.

Without the procedure, San Jose conjoined twins Angelica and Angelina Sabuco -- fused at their liver -- would face a troubled future, with curved spines, muscle problems and the emotional challenges of intimately shared lives.

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3 more deaths attributed to contaminated alcohol wipes

John Diedrich Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 2:05pm

MILWAUKEE -- Federal regulators have received reports of three more deaths possibly connected to contaminated alcohol wipes made and sold by a Wisconsin company, according a newly released report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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5th person dies from weight-loss surgery

Stuart Pfeifer Los Angeles Times

Last updated Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 8:30am

LOS ANGELES -- An Orange County, Calif., woman has died after weight-loss surgery at a Los Angeles outpatient clinic, the fifth person to die shortly after Lap-Band procedures at clinics affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising campaign since 2009, according to lawsuits, coroner's records and interviews.

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(The Associated Press) Undated handout photo released Sunday Sept.18, 2011 by British charity Facing the World of conjoined twins Rital and Ritag Gaboura (left to right not given) after they were successfully separated at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Facing the World says Rital and Ritag Gaboura were born in Sudan with the tops of their heads stuck together. Twins born joined at the head _ known as craniopagus twins _ occur in about one in 2.5 million births and successful attempts to split them are rare. However, the condition can lead to serious medical problems and the charity said the twins’ parents asked for help funding surgery to pull the two apart. The charity said Sunday the two were finally separated last month and appear to be healthy.

UK surgeons separate twin girls joined at head

Raphael G. Satter The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 5:24pm

LONDON — Sudanese twins born with the tops of their heads joined together have been separated in a rare and risky series of operations at a London children’s hospital, officials said Sunday.

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In this Feb. 8, 2011 photo provided by Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Adrienne Spates holds her conjoined twin sons, Joshua, left, and Jacob Spates in Memphis, Tenn. The boys were joined back-to-back at the pelvis and lower spine, each with separate hearts, heads and limbs. The 7-month-old boys were separated Aug. 29. (AP Photo/Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Lisa Waddell Buser)

Separated conjoined twins see each other for first time

Tom Charlier Memphis Commercial Appeal

Last updated Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 11:51pm

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Her two wide-eyed and wondrously whole babies wiggled and stared up at her, so Adrienne Spates bent down to kiss one on the cheek while gently nudging the other with her index finger.

"Hey, Jacob, you see your brother?" she asked during a visit Wednesday morning.

Until this day, in fact, he hadn't. Neither boy had laid eyes on the other even though they're identical twins.

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Scott Heath walks a set of stairs as part of his rehabilitation after knee replacement as Jeff Olsen, director of physical therapy at Ogden Regional Medical Center, helps on Wednesday.

Ogden Regional opens new joint center

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 11:46pm

OGDEN -- With baby boomers living more healthy, active lifestyles, the demand for joint replacement has increased.

That's why Ogden Regional Medical Center has created a state-of-the-art Joint Center.

The center performs 200 to 250 hip and knee replacements each year, said Jeff Olsen, total joint care coordinator for therapy services.

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Arizona man describes shears impaling eye socket

Amanda Lee Myers The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 5:36pm

PHOENIX -- An 86-year-old Arizona man had just finished trimming plants in his backyard when he fell face-first into his pruning shears, sending one of the handles through his right eye socket and halfway into his head.

Unsure what had happened, Leroy Luetscher reached up and felt the shears jutting from his face. He was covered in blood and in more pain than he'd ever felt in his life.

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Survivors of gruesome eugenics surgery hard to find

Ann Doss Helms, Tommy Tomlinson The Charlotte Observer

Last updated Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 1:52pm

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- They were labeled unfit parents, promiscuous or simply feebleminded, then sent by the thousands to surgeons who ensured they would never have babies again -- or never at all.

The records are interred in rows of gray boxes in a cold basement of the state archives, waiting for survivors of North Carolina's eugenic sterilization program to step forward and claim them.

State officials say they believe at least 1,500 of the women, girls, boys and men sterilized under state authority from 1929 to 1974 are still alive.

But one year into a three-year quest to find them, only 34 files have been matched with living survivors or descendants of the dead. And officials' talk of paying for the victims' pain could end as a false hope.

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Man operates on himself with butter knife

Veronica Rocha Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 12:11pm

LOS ANGELES -- A 63-year-old Glendale, Calif., man was in stable condition after he attempted surgery on himself with a 6-inch butter knife to remove a protruding hernia from his stomach, police said Tuesday.

When police arrived at the man's home on Sunday evening, they saw the man lying naked outside on a lounge chair with what appeared to be the handle of a knife protruding from his stomach, Sgt. Tom Lorenz of the Glendale Police Department told the Glendale News-Press.

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Gary Madsen, of Hooper, runs on a treadmill as his surgeon, Dr. David Affleck (left), and his cardiologist, Dr. Michael Diehl, watch at Ogden Regional Medical Center’s cardiac rehabilitation unit on Thursday. With the help of his medical team, Madsen ran the Ogden Marathon only 10 months after undergoing open-heart surgery because of chest pains caused by a blocked artery.

Hooper man runs marathon after open-heart surgery

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, July 24, 2011 - 11:32pm

HOOPER -- Gary Madsen had no idea a little trip to the doctor would land him in the hospital for open-heart surgery and a marathon victory 10 months later.