The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall, the agency’s most serious, for a Medtronic device used to temporarily drain spinal fluid from patients after surgery for a thoracic ...

The purpose was to review outcome data following endovascular repair of the descending thoracic aorta from reports published between 1994 and 2004. To accomplish this task, 1,518 patients underwent ...

According to two recent studies, a nonsurgical treatment using stent-grafts to repair an injured or diseased thoracic aorta offered patients less risk of paraplegia as well as lower morbidity and ...

Thoracic aortic aneurysms represent a major health problem. Untreated thoracic aortic aneurysms may rupture, which has a dismal outcome. The standard treatment for thoracic aneurysms is open surgical ...

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An 86-year-old woman was admitted to hospital with back pain and general malaise after a fall. Her medical history included hypertension, dyslipidemia and previous venous thromboembolism. Because an ...

Lumbar lymph nodes refer to a group of small organs that are part of the immune system. Lymph nodes are generally circular, bean-like organs that are dispersed throughout the body. The lumbar lymph ...