Interventional Surgical Treatment Options

Emerging Treatment Options: Interventional Oncology

Key Points •Interventional oncology is a rapidly developing specialty in veterinary medicine that focuses on utilizing image-guided therapies in the minimally invasive treatment of neoplastic disease. •Several new therapies involving the locoregional delivery of chemotherapy and embolic agents, tumor ablation and stenting are being discovered in veterinary medicine and early results are promising.

Surgical treatment options for aldosteronomas

INTRODUCTION Single access retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy (SARA) is the most feasible approach for removing aldosteronomas. AIM To analyse the advantages and disadvantages of surgical approaches to treating small adrenal tumours. MATERIAL AND METHODS In the period 2002-2011, 31 patients were operated on at Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Clinics for aldosteronomas. Adrenalectomi...

New Surgical Options in Myocardial Infarction

Saphenous vein autograft had opened a new erra in revascularization of mycardium in cases with severe angina pectoris. This has attracted the attention of many medical enters so that a rae of 7595% relief of pain has been obtained. 92% of patients have demonstrated sings of cure of choronary iSJChemia and have moved to group 1 from those of group 2, 3, and 4 (dassi­f[ca,tion of American Heart A...

New Interventional Technologies Expand Treatment Options for Cardiovascular Disease

Hemifacial spasm: conservative and surgical treatment options.

BACKGROUND Hemifacial spasm is a neuromuscular movement disorder characterized by brief or persistent involuntary contractions of the muscles innervated by the facial nerve. Its prevalence has been estimated at 11 cases per 100 000 individuals. Among the patients who were operated on by our team, the mean interval from diagnosis to surgery was 8.2 years, and more than half of them learned of th...