Surgery Gives Way to Scalpel-Free Procedures
By Dr Sean Lanigan

In an attempt to stay young and beautiful, people will often go to extraordinary lengths to preserve their looks. Whilst the popularity of cosmetic surgery is on the rise, there are ’scalpel-free’ alternatives to going under the surgeon’s knife and offer a relatively painless answer to facial hair removal, smoothing out wrinkles and other forms of skin treatment.

The new kids on the ‘no-cedure’ block The development of ‘no-cedures’ (cosmetic treatments that do not require surgical procedures) has made skin treatments available for the masses. Cheaper than cosmetic surgery, these methods are quick, relatively painless and much cheaper than going under the knife.

Skin resurfacing The first of these treatments is skin resurfacing. This uses a laser to target the surface of the skin, treats sun damage, fine lines and wrinkles and enlarged pores – all common signs of skin aging. The laser uses micro beams and only targets a small area of the skin during a session. A local anaesthetic is administered before treatment. The laser is then directed onto the skin, which causes a rapid tightening and stimulating collagen production. It is suitable for most skin types and is used as a skin treatment for acne. However, it is strongly advised to check that your skin type is suitable for laser treatment beforehand, as laser treatment may damage the pigmentation in darker skins.

Botox Botox is probably the best known of all ‘non-cedures’ and its popularity amongst celebrities has brought with it a mass appeal to the public. A series of carefully placed injections are placed under local anaesthetic into the forehead to give the sensation of a ‘brow lift’. It is also used to tighten pores by being injected into the fine muscles that control the skin pores, resulting in a smoother and tighter appearance to the skin. Botox can help slow the aging process, but only last from three to five months and cannot rejuvenate or lift sagging skin.

Radiage Radiage uses microwaves to penetrate the tissue below the surface of the skin. The absorption of radiowaves causes tissue to heat up, stimulate collagen production and tighten the skin around the eyes, smoothing out fine lines and ‘crow’s feet’. Suitable for most skin types, this is one of the more effective anti-aging techniques and is completely non-invasive. The radiowaves encourage the skin’s fibroblasts to produce more collagen, which will tighten and tone the skin.

Lipsonix The newest of the ‘non-cedures’, Lipsonix uses ultrasound technology on the stomach area, using high-intensity and high frequency energy to target and destroy unwanted fat. The body then metabolises this fat over the following months. The most expensive of the new treatments, there have been studies that have shown that clients experience an average loss of approximately 2cm in waist circumference after one treatment. Lipsonix is hot news in Hollywood, where practitioners often see a rush of clients before a big awards ceremony!

In the hunt for eternal youth, we are now employing the very latest technology to help us fight off the signs of the relentless march of time. But it’s not just for vanity’s sake that we’re turning to lasers and radiowaves – these methods can be very effective in the treatment of skin conditions, laser hair removal and other treatments. If the tech’s there, why not use it?

Dr Sean Lanigan – sk:n was established in 1990 and is the UK’s leading provider of skincare conditions treatment and products including: laser hair removal, tattoo removal & acne treatments.

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Heart Valve Surgery to Repair the Mitral Valve
By Lawrence Reaves

Blood flows to your heart in order to pick up more oxygen from your lungs. It comes into your right atrium before moving into your right ventricle. It then flows to your lungs before returning to the left atrium. From there, it moves into the left ventricle before leaving your heart and flowing into the aorta on its way to your other organs.

This blood flow between the four chambers of your heart and your lungs is made possible by a series of valves. One of them is called the mitral valve (MV). It controls the passage of blood between your left atrium and left ventricle. Below, we’ll describe two disorders that can prevent the MV from working properly. We’ll also explain the most effective mitral valve repair techniques in use today.

Stenosis And Prolapse

Stenosis is defined as a narrowing of the diseased valve. The MV’s two leaflets harden or stiffen, and fail to open wide enough to allow a sufficient amount of blood to flow from the atrium to the ventricle. The root cause of this disorder is usually rheumatic fever experienced by the patient as a child. Infection triggers the body’s immune system, which attacks the leaflets. Due to widespread use of medications, few people in the U.S. suffer from rheumatic fever today. As a result, mitral stenosis is rare when compared to prolapse.

Prolapse is defined as an inability to close effectively. In cases where it affects the mitral valve, one or both of the leaflets flap back into the left atrium when the left ventricle contracts. This causes blood to flow back into the atrium, a condition known as regurgitation. It can lead to infection, arrhythmias, clotting, and other complications.

Mitral Valve Repair Techniques

A stenotic MV is usually repaired through a procedure called balloon valvuloplasty. A balloon is placed on the tip of a catheter and guided to the stenotic valve. It is positioned between the stiffened leaflets and expanded to widen the opening.

Prolapse is treated based on which of the two leaflets is affected: posterior or anterior. The posterior leaflet can be repaired with a procedure called triangular resection. The surgeon will remove abnormal sections by cutting a small triangular area into the leaflet. Once the sections have been removed, the edges of the leaflet are sewn together.

Mitral valve repair performed on the anterior leaflet is more complicated. It requires the surgeon to either transfer supporting chords from another piece of the MV or to create new chords using a synthetic material. In the latter case, there are rarely complications.

What To Expect After Surgery

Mitral valve repair was once performed exclusively through open heart surgery. A long incision was made into the patient’s chest and the breastbone was separated to give the surgeon access to the heart. It was an invasive operation that required a long recovery period.

Today, surgery to repair stenosis and prolapse is performed with minimally invasive methods. These techniques can be done without opening the patient’s chest. This introduces several key benefits.

First, the recovery period following surgery is much shorter than in the past. Second, the likelihood of infection, bleeding, and other complications is much lower. Third, doctors used to replace the MV rather than attempt to repair it. This usually required the patient to take anticoagulant drugs for the remainder of his or her life. With mitral valve repair, anticoagulants are no longer necessary. Lastly, these minimally invasive techniques preserve more of the heart’s natural ability to circulate blood throughout the body.

If you suffer from symptoms stemming from stenosis or prolapse, mitral valve repair surgery may be a viable solution. Ask your physician whether the procedure makes sense given your condition and circumstances.

Finding the right doctor for cardiac surgery or vascular surgery is crucial. Visit a specialist for proper diagnosis and treatment

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Medical News You and Your Family Can Finally Use!
By Dr. Joshua Fink

Welcome to Monthly Medical -News with Josh. Every month I am going to share with you some of the most talked about Medical stories and how they can affect you. For February some of the topics I will touch upon are- New Hope for Hepatitis C, Morning Sickness, Treatment for Cold Sores, and Hormone Vaccine against Breast Cancer. Enjoy Monthly Medical -News with Josh and don’t forget the Doctor is always in!

1. Hormone Vaccine against Breast Cancer?

Researchers are pursuing a vaccine that could trick your body into thinking it’s pregnant. It is well known that short-term exposure in early adulthood to the hormones of late pregnancy and to the hormones of lactation offers a life long risk reduction against breast cancer. Early in the 1700’s, Dr. Bernardo Ramazzini described breast cancer as an “occupational disease of nuns”. Even if we got rid of the “risk factors” for breast cancer, such as obesity, excess alcohol and hormone therapy, we would drop the incidence of breast cancer from 180,000 cases a year to 140,000. That’s not much! What about genetics? In a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, in a study that looked at “SNP’s”, which are changes in genes that can cause disease, these changes only elevated the risk by 1.5 fold, which is truly not much, as compared to those without single gene mutations. What is it about pregnancy that decreases risk? No one really knows, but the bet is against it being estrogen and progesterone’s.

2. Wounds that Won’t Heal: WARNING

Poorly healing wounds are a major problem, and it’s often seen in diabetics and people with poor circulation. Negative Pressure devices have been used to aid in the healing of these chronic wounds. Now, the FDA has issued a warning AGAINST these devices. Deaths have been reported, and have been associated with bleeding, infection and other problems. Negative pressure is appropriate for the right type of wound, however. Some of the problems may have arisen because most wound dressings are changed every day, but negative pressure bandages are not. These are the wounds in which Negative Pressure Devices are NOT appropriate:

1. Exposed nerves, or exposed vessels

2. Untreated infections of the bone [osteomyelitis]

3. Dead tissue present

4. Fistulas

5. Wound Infections

3. Morning Sickness Alert:

Don’t take Nzu, also sold under the names of Calabash clay, Calabar stone, Mabele, Argile, and La Craie. These are sold in health food stores for morning sickness, and have been found to contain high levels of Arsenic and Lead. My Advice: Acupuncture and Ginger.

The Long QT syndrome:

This is a genetic disease that seems to occur more commonly, maybe due to better patient education about it. The story is “a young athlete that died while training.” The family is devastated and lives are ruined. The truth is that we can screen for this. This disease affects the potassium or sodium channels in the heart. These patients may develop symptoms of fainting, tachycardia and eventually sudden death. In general, in addition to the EKG on the patient, we believe it is important to screen the first degree relatives as well, as this is a genetic disease. A “QTc” longer than 450 msec in men and 470 msec in women is considered worthy of more investigation. It is caused by 12 separate genes. WE call these “LQT 1-12″. The “causative mutation” can be seen in 70% of high-probability cases…not “100%”…so a negative gene test at this point in time does not rule out Long QT syndrome. The arrhythmia, or abnormal heart beat, is typically brought out by swimming, exercise and emotions. Those with a mutation of LQT1 are the highest risk for exercise or emotion-induced rhythm problems, and a group of medications called Beta Blockers are used to treat it. Those with mutations in LQT3 are at a higher risk of getting an arrhythmia when they are at rest or sleeping. In addition to drug therapy, certain drugs must be avoided and these can be seen at http://www.qtdrugs.org.

4.New Hope for Hepatitis C?

No vaccine. Not yet. But at least there is some drug therapy. Telaprevir [VX 950: Johnson and Johnson] is a protease inhibitor, something that emerged as a result of HIV research. When it is added to the standard drug therapy for Hepatitis C, it leads to a sustained Virological response [less virus] in those who previously failed drug therapy. This study looked at those with HCV 1 and was called the “PROVE3″ study. Another weapon in the war against Hep C has been added!

Acne: Which is Better?

Adapalene 0.1% gel or BenzaClin? In a recent study, BenzaClin won. 43% vs. a 20% response. Wow….we have been using this for years already. Keep in mind that Adapalene is a retinoid and may prevent you from having other aesthetic procedures performed!

5.New Treatment for Cold Sores?

Combining a 5% acyclovir cream, with a steroid cream can prevent recurrent herpes ulcers. This product was recently approved, but not yet named. This product, however, seems to prevent cold sore development and would be the first topical to do so.

Be in touch next month for some more medical news you and your family can use!

Dr. Fink has over 20 years of experience and he is a Fellow of the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery as well as a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Disease.

He maintains an active clinical practice in multiple areas of specialization, including Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Diseases as well as Wound Care in both Westchester and Manhattan. He is published in peer-reviewed medical journals and he is Chief Clinical Instructor in programs that teach the proper use of Dermal Fillers, Botox and Aesthetic Lasers throughout the US, Asia, and Australia and he was recently awarded the Prestigious Clinical Instructor award that recognizes his excellence in teaching Botox, Restylane and laser technology throughout the world.

Dr. Fink is also a recognized expert in the cosmetic use of lasers and laser technology. Dr. Fink has been extensively involved in aesthetic research, acting as the Principal Investigator for numerous laser and cosmetic trials over the past several years. Dr. Fink’s Westchester’s practice is conveniently located in Mt. Kisco, NY with availability in his NYC office as well.

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Ways to Avoid Spinal Disc Surgery
By Stacy Mcaffee

Many people in America have troubles with keeping their back pain free. This problem is something that should not be taken lightly. If you are experiencing regular back pack, it would be wise to have your back properly diagnosed by a doctor. If the pain is not common, or just after certain activity there may be less to worry about and a few ways to help. There are many reasons why you back may be in pain from a bad mattress to a weak back. This article is going to give some ways to help your back and avoid having costly and painful spinal disc surgery.

One of the best ways to reduce back pain and avoid problems in the long run is to strengthen your lower back. Strengthening the muscles that are support your spine will take some of the load off of it. This can be accomplished in many ways, and one of the best is a regular workout routine. Some exercises that can help the lower back include; good mornings, hyperextensions, and deadlifts. It’s important to start light on any exercise with your back to get it used to the extra work you are putting on it. Also make sure to keep a balanced fitness routine and not just workout the back, the other body parts are important too.

Investing in a quality mattress is also a great way to reduce morning back pain. At night, if you have a bad mattress your spine is compressed in an unnatural way that causes pain in the mornings and even throughout the day. Some companies have developed mattresses that will allow you to control the firmness based on your needs. This is important because not everyone is the same when it comes to the firmness of a mattress. Sleep Number is a type of mattress that actually allows for you and your loved one to have different settings, keeping both happy and pain free.

If you already have back pain and you are looking for a way to reduce it, there are also a few quick remedies. Any pain medication will of course reduce the pain in your lower back, and they actually have specific medicines to treat the pain in that area. Applying heat to the back is also a great way to reduce pain, this works by stimulating blood flow. There are many different ways to treat and avoid back pain, these are just a few. If you are having serious back problems it’s important to contact a doctor to have it properly diagnosed regularly to make sure there are not any deeper issues that need addressing.

Read more here about the Spine Also see what Stacy Mcaffee has to say about Herniated Disc

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Minimally Invasive Coronary Bypass Surgery
By Giovanni Ciuffo, M.D.

Minimally Invasive Coronary Surgery techniques have changed the way we cure cure coronary artery disease. In spite of all the exciting progress in the field of interventional cardiology (stents and angioplasties), many patients are best treated with coronary bypass surgery to enjoy a durable and reliable solution to their problems and a much better quality of life. One of my favorite analogies about choosing the right options in heart disease comes from the field of dentistry. If you have a toothache and a literally rotten tooth you might consider two basic choices…….

CHOICE #1: The DIY Cheap Way Out.

You might decide to go to the local drug store and get yourself some strong toothache medication to feel better for a while. Unfortunately, we all know what happens next. This remedy won’t last too long and chances are that you will end up losing your tooth and/or experiencing the misery of a tooth abscess.

CHOICE #2: The Permanent Fix

….OR you might decide to see what a dentist can do to help. Chances are that our good dentist will recommend a root canal. It goes without saying that none of us particularly enjoys the prospect of needle sticks and gruesome drilling in the dentist’s office. We can expect, though, to save our tooth and get a crown on it. Bottom line: the pain is gone, the tooth is saved and we are happy again. That’s more like it!!

Let’s go back to coronary disease. A lot more than a tooth is at stake but a great deal of patients are still in denial and will try any easy way out rather than facing their condition. Some of them are unsuccessfully treated with medical therapy and/or stents and show up again with the same or more chest pain, shortness of breath, profound weakness or even worse…a heart attack and/or a much weaker heart. In many cases these same patients subject themselves to a radical, often exaggerated decrease in their physical and social activity to avoid their symptoms of chest pain, palpitations or shortness of breath. Some others get more and more stents in spite of the fact that they are obviously not working for them. I recall the extreme example of a 58-year old coronary patient with multiple stents saying, and I quote: “I’m fine. I only get chest pain when I walk!!” I heard once this line: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome each time”.

All coronary patients should be strongly encouraged to consult with a heart surgeon and get a balanced view of their options in the treatment of their disease. It is not unusual to see patients that had been insisting on non-surgical therapies that are not working and can eventually cause more problems and effectively take their quality of life away. I am always amazed by how little information is offered to patients and their families when they are “shopping” for their best options. You should always feel free to ask as many questions as you like to your primary care physician and to the heart specialist about your choices in treatment. Our low-impact and minimally invasive techniques in coronary bypass surgery have dramatically improved our results and have shortened the recovery time. The overwhelming majority of coronary patients in my service return to their homes two-three days after their surgery. Even frail and older patients can enjoy these excellent results and get their “permanent fix” instead of the “DIY cheap way out”

What is a Coronary Artery Bypass? Coronary bypass surgery is one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in the U.S.. To put it in plain plumbing terms, this procedure deals with badly clogged pipes (the coronary arteries). We connect a new pipe (a bypass) between the aorta (the equivalent of the main water supply) and the coronary artery segment downstream from the blockage (the “clogged pipe”). This bypass serves the purpose of bringing back a normal flow of oxygenated blood to the portion of heart muscle supplied by the blocked coronary artery (see picture below).

The traditional way to perform this operation involved the use of a heart-lung machine and a midline incision through the breast bone (median sternotomy). A more recent development that has revolutionized the way we perform this procedure is the beating heart surgery technique. In other words, we are now able to perform a coronary artery bypass while the heart is beating, with no need for a heart-lung machine. In expert hands, this technique allows excellent results and a shorter and less complicated postoperative course, especially in the older and higher risk patient population. By avoiding the use of the heart-lung machine, we are also able to perform a much less invasive procedure. Clinical studies are beginning to show that this technique is associated to much less bleeding and very few patients require transfusions. It is better tolerated by the lungs and kidneys, which is a great advantage in patients with emphysema and/or renal insufficiency. It might also be beneficial in patients that have carotid artery disease (bad circulation to the brain). For all these reasons, it is my personal preference to use this technique in the overwhelming majority of my coronary patients. The operation is carried out by connecting the aorta to a small opening in the segment of coronary artery beyond the blockage. The connection is created with saphenous veins harvested from the leg, mammary arteries from the chest wall, radial arteries from the forearm or other arteries from the abdomen (see picture).

Which grafts? The first coronary artery bypasses were performed only with leg veins. In the 70’s the internal mammary artery (IMA) was introduced in clinical practice. It was soon discovered that the routine use of this artery for bypass can guarantee long term results that are far superior to using only leg veins. Numerous clinical studies have in fact shown that even after 10 years over 96% of the IMA grafts are still open and function well. The use of the IMA to bypass the coronary artery that feeds the front of the heart has been proven to give our patients the greatest survival advantage over any other intervention in contemporary medicine. This the reason why the left IMA is now considered the graft of first choice all over the world, often in association with other grafts if more than one bypass is necessary. The excellent results we observed with the use of the IMA lead us to believe that the preferential use of more arterial grafts instead of veins might improve the duration and quality of the beneficial effects of the bypass operation. In addition to both IMA’s (right and left), other arterial grafts such as the radial arteries from the forearm, the right gastroepiploic artery from the stomach, the inferior epigastric artery from the abdominal wall, etc. have been successfully used. It is again important to point out that every patient gets an individual evaluation to decide which particular procedure and grafts suit him or her best.

MIDCAB stands for Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass. This technique truly represents the ultimate minimally invasive technique in the field of heart surgery because it is carried out through a small incision AND does not require the use of the heart-lung machine. This operation is performed on the beating heart and instead of the traditional big midline incision, a 3″ long transverse incision is all that is necessary to access the heart. The incision is right on the skin fold underneath the left breast to insure an invisible scar.

The Left Internal Mammary Artery is harvested from the chest wall and prepared for connection to the blocked coronary in the front of the heart.

A mechanical stabilizer (that two-pronged fork) is used to immobilize the portion of the heart surface where the blocked coronary vessel is and allow the surgeon to connect the left internal mammary artery to it. The wound is then closed with plastic surgery techniques and the scar will be effectively hidden in the skin fold underneath the left breast. This approach can basically afford our patients a scarless and often painless operation

After this minimally invasive operation, our patients experience minimal pain with a small surgical scar and can often go home within the next 48 hours with a left internal mammary artery graft. Once again, this mammary graft is by far the best life insurance that modern medicine can offer to coronary patients!!! Ask your cardiologist about it. It is important to remember, though, that each patient needs to get an individual evaluation by the heart surgeon in order to decide if he or she is a suitable candidate for this procedure.

Visit us for more information and surgical pictures about Dr. Ciuffo and his revolutionary Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery techniques.

Minimally Invasive Coronary Bypass Surgery is routinely available to Dr.Ciuffo’s patients. His accomplishments stem from an entire career dedicated to the development and improvement of these techniques. Dr. Ciuffo speaks fluent Italian and Spanish. He currently runs a busy Cardiothoracic Surgery practice at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, where he cares for numerous patients coming from the Tri-State Area and the rest of the country.

Giovanni B. Ciuffo, MD is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He is a member of the New York Society of Thoracic Surgeons. His current academic and clinical activity is entirely devoted to the surgical therapy of coronary, valvular and thoracic aortic disease with the most advanced bloodless, minimally invasive and beating heart surgery techniques.

He serves as cardiovascular surgeon and consultant in the Hospital Liaison Committee for the Jehovah’s Witnesses for his expertise in bloodless surgery techniques and strategies. He is often invited to teach and demonstrate his minimally invasive techniques in European and American cardiac surgery centers. He is often an invited speaker to meetings and conventions of medical and civic associations and the author of a health column on America Oggi, a daily Italian language newspaper in the U.S.

Dr. Ciuffo lives in Queens, NY with his wife and his two children.

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While it is true that the overall number of plastic surgery procedures performed in the past few years is up, and the number of men as a percentage of this total is increased, women still far outnumber male patients by about 10:1 for most practices. While male plastic surgery procedures are somewhat different from woman’s, their motivations for undergoing plastic surgery are also different.

While both men and women undergo plastic surgery to look physically better, you have to dig beyond this obvious level to understand what their true motivations are. The desired physical concerns or desired changes are just a reflection of their unspoken concerns. Generally speaking, most women undergo plastic surgery for internal self-image motivations. They want to fell better about themselves. Correcting a physical flaw is one approach to self-improvement. (and perhaps the easiest?) Whether it is a tummy tuck to look better in clothes or t have their eyes done to look more refreshed, plastic surgery for women is mainly about improving themselves and is not necessarily for others. I hear this over and over…’my husband says I look fine the way I am’…or…’my friends say I look fine’. But yet, women want to have the surgery anyway…because they to effect an internal self-image change. Men, conversely, often undergo plastic surgery because they want things. Whether it be to have more women, sex, money or power…it most always deep down is motivated by a desire for external or more tangible things. As a plastic surgerycorollary to ‘Men are Venus, Women are from Mars’…Women do things for themselves, Men usually do things for somebody else. or other external raesons.

The male plastic surgery patient is also different from the female patient in other ways as well. They often do not prefer to undergo radical procedures that make a drastic change in appearance, have less pain tolerance, follow postoperatve instructions less carefully, do not want a prolonged physical or social recovery, and can be more vocal about the outcome of the surgery. (or they are at least more vocal) Much of this has to do with the general greater impatience of men who want to get to the final result quickly…and usually more discretely. This is why smaller more subtle procedures for men are often better, even if the result is not as significant. Men get no accolades, and certainly little support, in society for suffering through a plastic surgery recovery. And the aging of men is generally better accepted in all societies. Women, conversely, garner more empathy if they are suffering to look more ‘beautiful’. In fact, our society expects them to do so.

The handling of the male plastic surgery patient, I have found, is quite different from a female patient. Because of the male mentality, some plastic surgeons do not enjoy working with men. They often require more time and patience than most female patients. And the expectations of the younger male are often higher than for the older male. The young ‘narcisistic’ male patient can be the most demanding and the most likely to require revisional surgery to achieve a mutually satisfactory result.

Dr Barry Eppley is a private plastic surgeon who practices at his hospital-based medspa locations at Clarian Health in Indianapolis. To learn more about the latest trends in plastic surgery, go to his daily blog, http://www.exploreplasticsurgery.com .

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In this video, Dr. Kreuzer conducts an anterior hip replacement surgery using an Arch Table to manipulate the hip out of its socket. One viewer of this video commented “Anterior is the way to go especially if your young like me 37 yrs old Avascular Necrosis. Pain is gone hardest thing for me is just coming down stairs but once i get that i will be ok. Already doing everyday things couldn’t do before surgery. Feel so much better and recovery time is quicker than the posterior approach no disconnecting muscles.”

For many people, snoring may seem like a fairly minor issue in their lives. After all, something that is experienced by so many people around the world cannot possibly be all that serious, they suppose, so it seems a waste to consider such treatments as snoring surgery.

The truth is that snoring can have a number of negative effects on a person’s life, as well as the lives of those close to them. And even more severe is the fact that snoring is sometimes not the problem in and of itself, but rather a symptom of a more severe problem, such as sleep apnea. Snoring surgery may not only be the right choice to improve the quality of your sleep, and the sleep of those around you, but also may be the right choice because of a greater health risk.

Snoring surgery may not be the only solution for you. Obviously, it would be a wise choice to consult a doctor before you decide to go with a surgical procedure, as there may be other treatments available which would be able to give you the positive results you need without the extra costs and hassle associated with a surgical procedure. These treatments may include simple things such as nasal strips. In fact, it may even be as simple as sleeping in a different position or losing a bit of weight, both of which can yield remarkable results in stopping your snoring. Consulting a doctor will also give you a chance to find out if your snoring is caused by simple things such as nasal congestion, or more severe causes such as a deviated septum or sleep apnea.

Once you have consulted a doctor, if you still feel that snoring surgery is the right choice for you, then you have a few options which are open to you. Each option works in different ways, and as such varies in effectiveness depending on the cause of your snoring. One of the simplest and easiest methods is a procedure that is known as Somnoplasty. Somnoplasty uses a specific frequency of radio waves to, over time, correct blocked airways. This will reduce snoring, as well as potentially reducing or eliminating the threat of an obstructive sleep apnea. The advantages of this method are obvious, as there is no real surgical procedure involved. However, the time frame is a bit longer than one might expect from some other methods.

Other types of snoring surgery are, obviously, more invasive than the Somnoplasty treatment. However, they may be necessary, as Somnoplasty is not effective in cases where the cause of snoring is within the nasal passages. For instance, direct nasal surgery would be required in order to fix snoring that is caused by a deviated septum, and other similar sorts of nasal blockages. Again, the specific type of snoring surgery you use should be decided based on advice from a medical professional, as they will be able to inform you of how effective you can expect each different method to be in your case.

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An educational video account of actual hernia repair surgery with Dr. David Albin, as well as general hernia information and information on our hernia surgeon and facility.

Heart Surgery In India Heart Surgery

Heart surgery is used to correct heart problems in children and adults. This article discusses heart surgeries for adults.

The most common type of heart surgery for adults is coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). During CABG, surgeons use healthy arteries or veins taken from another part of the body to bypass (that is, go around) blocked arteries. CABG relieves chest pain and reduces the risk of heart attack…

Heart surgery also is done to : -

• Repair or replace valves that control blood flow through the heart
• Repair abnormal or damaged structures in the heart
• Implant medical devices that regulate heart rhythms or blood flow
• Replace a damaged heart with a healthy heart from a donor (heart transplant)…

Minimally invasive heart surgery uses smaller incisions (cuts) than traditional open-heart surgery. Some types of minimally invasive heart surgery use a heart-lung bypass machine and others don’t…

Types of Heart Surgery Different types of heart surgery are used to fix different heart problems : -

Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting : – Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the most common type of heart surgery. More than 500,000 of these surgeries are done each year in India. CABG improves blood flow to the heart. It’s used for people with severe coronary artery disease (CAD)….

Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization : – Transmyocardial laser revascularization or TLR, is a surgery used to treat angina when no other treatments work. For example, if you’ve already had one CABG procedure and can’t have another one, TLR may be an option. This type of heart surgery isn’t common…

Valve Repair or Replacement : – For the heart to work right, blood must flow in only one direction. The heart’s valves make this possible. Healthy valves open and close in a precise way as the heart pumps blood…

Heart Transplant : – A heart transplant is surgery in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a deceased donor. Heart transplants are done on patients whose hearts are so damaged or weak that they can’t pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs…

Open-Heart Surgery : – Open-heart surgery is any kind of surgery where the chest wall is opened and surgeons operate on the heart. “Open” refers to the chest, not the heart. Depending on the type of surgery, the heart may be opened too. Open-heart surgery is used to bypass blocked arteries in the heart, repair or replace heart valves, fix atrial fibrillation, and transplant hearts…

Diagnostic Tests

Medical tests are done to find out more about your heart problem and your general health. This helps your doctors decide whether you need heart surgery, what type of surgery you need, and when to do it…

What To Expect Before Heart Surgery

There are many types of heart surgery. The type you need depends on your situation. One person’s experience before an operation can be very different from another’s…

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