The UAB Department of Surgery’s Arnold G. Diethelm Fellowship in Abdominal Transplant Surgery has received reaccreditation through the Transplant Accreditation & Certification Council (TACC). Through ...

Introduction Surgical site infection (SSI) remains a significant challenge in surgical care, particularly in low- and ...

Exploratory laparotomy is an abdominal surgery that doctors sometimes use to diagnose abdominal issues. While it can be recommended when another testing method has been unsuccessful in diagnosing or ...

The future of surgery is within reach. The first-ever augmented reality (AR) abdominal surgery was performed on March 11 in Santiago, Chile, by Dr. Alberto Rodriguez. A surgeon as well as the CEO of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 13—Attorneys asked jurors Monday to award more than $45 million to a woman who underwent a 2019 surgery at Presbyterian ...

Mortality, length of stay, readmissions, and surgical site infections (SSI) all declined after a six-state hospital system implemented a comprehensive surgical site infection (SSI) prevention bundle, ...

The aorta is the main blood vessel that carries oxygen-filled blood from the heart to the rest of the body. It extends from the chest to the abdomen, where it branches (bifurcates) into the iliac ...

Think surgery automatically means spending days in hospital? Not always. Doctors explain how modern techniques are making day ...

Amy Bamford has taken to social media to talk about her "massive" incisional hernia.