Showing posts with label Recent trends in Surgery.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recent trends in Surgery.. Show all posts

Friday, November 16, 2018

Rare surgical procedures: Spinal Osteomyelitis and surgery

Osteomyelitis is commonly the spinal infection to explain in detail vertebral osteomyelitis refers to an infection of the vertebral body in the spine. It is sometimes a rare reason for the back pain most probably in healthy adults. Generally, the infection is spread through the vascular route.

The symptoms of the vertebral osteomyelitis include,

  • Back pain
  • Unexplained weight loss
  • Excessive sweating
  • Fever
  • Chills
  • Fatigue
  • Pain around the area of infection
  • Inflammation around the area of infection.
  • Torticollis


Tests and diagnosis include, 
  •   Blood tests- complete blood count is done to detect the infection
  •   Erythrocyte sedimentation 
  •  C-reactive protein determination
  •   Radioistopic bone scanning

Surgery:

  • In the cases were the prosthetic joint get infected surgery shall be performed to remove the infected join and replace it with prosthetics.
  • In situation were the large number of bones get infected surgery to be performed to remove the infected bone tissue.


Friday, July 6, 2018

Recent Trends in Surgery: Transplantation made easier

Nowadays as most of us know transplantation Surgery is one of the important lifesaving surgeries. There many parameters should be carefully analyzed before the surgical procedures are confirmed. Doctors and Surgeons all around the globe have performed many types of transplantation surgery including the reproductive organ and the limbs to save the life of many people and help them in improving the standard of living. Some of the important and rare transplantation Surgeries performed includes

  • Womb replacement surgery
  • Ovary transplants
  • Double limb transplant
  • Toe-to-Thumb transplant
  • Fully synthetic organ transplant and others

Scientist who involved in the synthetic trachea transplant also said that the same synthetic technology transplant can be used for the other transplantation techniques also, but it is not suitable all the time because all the other organs are more complex than the trachea. Certain parameters to be performed include blood test to detect the antibodies between the donor and the recipients. Usually if the blood test is considered to be positive it is followed by the tissue typing and the cross-matching. Usually panel reactive antibody testing is also considered to detect the immune system reactivity. Among the various improvement in the field of surgery transplantation surgery is one of the important practice and found to save the life of many diseased individuals and in some occasions of trauma conditions. Surgeons who performs the transplantation surgeries is also aware of the patients pre and the post-operative treatment and found to have regular monitoring over the patient’s health condition in upcoming days.


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