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April 22, 2021
First patient to receive fat extraction surgery has improved health. Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (April 22, 2021) — The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also referred to as UT Health San Antonio), University Health and Texas Biomedical Research Institute are reporting promising results following a minimally invasive procedure […]
April 8, 2021
Dr. Elizabeth Thomas, Transplant Surgery, is mentioned in this KTSM-TV story as the surgeon who will perform this living donor transplant. Watch the story.
March 31, 2021
Severely injured trauma patients who received a blood-clotting drug before arriving at the hospital had a better chance of surviving than those who didn’t, according to new research published in Journal of the American Medical Association Surgery.
March 26, 2021
Physicians aren’t alone. A published letter by Dharam Kaushik, MD, associate professor of urology and surgeon with the Mays Cancer Center, also references a large study of burnout and trauma in nurses during the pandemic.
March 26, 2021
The surgery, called tracheotomy, is performed either in the operating room or at the bedside, depending on patient risk factors. The team analyzed 17 studies that included more than 3,000 patients.
February 18, 2021
Patients should be assessed for frailty before having many types of surgery, even if the surgery is considered low risk, a review of two national patient databases shows. Frailty is a clinical syndrome marked by slow walking speed, weak grip, poor balance, exhaustion and low physical activity. It is an important risk factor for death […]
