There are several interventional therapies that improve the prognosis and increase the survival rate of early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (early-stage HCC), but it is uncertain about whether one is superior to others, and available researches investigating the comparative effects of different treatments are limited. The main objective of this Bayesian network meta-analysis was to compare the...

This article serves as aCME available, enduring material summary of the following COPD9USA presentations: "Lung Volume Reduction Surgery" Presenter: William A. Bulman, MD "Bronchoscopic Approaches to Lung Volume Reduction" Presenter: Frank Sciurba, MD "Stem Cell Therapies for Advanced Emphysema" Presenter: Edward P. Ingenito, MD, PhD "Lung Transplantation for COPD" Presenter: Daniel Dilling, MD...

Most patients with cancer experience pain at some point in the disease course due to itself or its treatment, both. Pain management can involve pharmacologic (nonopioid medications, adjuvants, and opioids) nonpharmacologic (radiation therapy, interventional procedures) therapies. This article provides a treatment approach reduce for improve their quality of life.

Non-resectable and metastatic tumors present a difficult challenge for veterinarians and pet owners. The relatively limited efficacy of intravenous chemotherapy for macroscopic disease, and the cost and morbidity associated with radiation therapy have stimulated the search for additional therapeutic options. While surgery can be successfully performed in the head and neck, this area provides un...

Surgical and interventional therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in appropriately selected patients have the potential to dramatically improve or, in some cases, cure PAH. These include atrial septostomy, a palliative procedure or bridge to transplantation in patients with refractory right heart failure, pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for pulmonary hypertension associated with c...

Cancer pain is complex and multifactorial. Most cancer pain can be effectively controlled using analgesics in accordance to the WHO analgesic ladder. However, in a small but significant percentage of cancer patients, systemic analgesics fail to provide adequate control of cancer pain. These cancer patients can also suffer from intolerable adverse effects of drug therapy or intractable cancer pa...

Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) has many potential causes and is often a complex disorder with multiple contributing etiologies. The evaluation and treatment of women with CPP often requires a multidimensional approach. The treatment of CPP consists of two approaches: 1) treatment of pain itself or global treatment, and 2) treatment of disease-specific etiologies. Most often, treatment requires a com...

The treatment of patients with peripheral arterial disease has evolved tremendously since the early 1960s, when Charles Dotter first successfully revascularized a superficial femoral artery occlusion in a patient with critical limb ischemia. Endovascular interventions have become the preferred therapy, as studies show equivalent, if not superior, procedural success and clinical outcomes compare...