Heart attack: ablation is a better first-line treatment for survivors
After a myocardial infarction, ablation, generally reserved for adults whose condition does not improve with treatments, may be more effective ...
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Atrial fibrillation: a new treatment that changes the game
A new clinical trial demonstrates the effectiveness of a treatment technique for atrial fibrillation: ablation by isolation of the pulmonary ...
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Removal of cancerous tumors: this new robot could be better than humans
A newly designed robot could soon perform resections as good as surgeons. THE ESSENTIAL Removing a tumor is a difficult ...
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World first: his kidney cancer was treated outside his body
Doctors from Toulouse carried out an ablation outside the body of several tumors located on a kidney, before replacing the ...
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Atrial fibrillation: up to what age can an ablation be performed?
Up to what age can an ablation be performed as part of the treatment of atrial fibrillation? This is a ...
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Atrial fibrillation: towards an outpatient management of ablation?
On the occasion of Atrial Fibrillation Week 2022, we interviewed Dr Guillaume Duthoit, cardiologist and rhythmologist, at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital ...
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Frédéric, 65, operated on for atrial fibrillation: “This feeling that the heart is racing…”
Atrial fibrillation would affect more than 750,000 people in France. As part of the 2021 Week of Action concerning this ...
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Marie-Ange, 55, managed to control her atrial fibrillation: “I lost weight and my treatments became effective”
Atrial fibrillation would affect more than 750,000 people in France. As part of the 2021 Week of Action concerning this ...
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Frédéric, 71, operated on for atrial fibrillation: “I don’t even pay attention to my heart anymore!”
Atrial fibrillation would affect more than 750,000 people in France. As part of the 2021 Week of Action concerning this ...
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Actress Amy Schumer had to have her uterus removed due to endometriosis
The American comedian and actress underwent surgery to relieve the pain associated with endometriosis from which she has suffered for ...
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Breast cancer: new personalized and sexy prostheses for well-being after the disease
The Toulouse University Hospital is launching a clinical trial so that the first personalized breast prosthesis is scientifically guaranteed and, ...
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Breast cancer: dare breast reconstruction in the wake of mastectomy
Although removal of the breast remains necessary in 20% of breast cancer cases, it is increasingly possible to have the ...
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Prostate cancer: ultrasound ablation helps prevent incontinence or erectile dysfunction
Ultrasonic ablation of the prostate in the event of cancer would not only demonstrate a reduced recovery time, but would ...
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Radiologists denounce too frequent removal of uterus
In an article in the “Parisien”, interventional radiologists regret the systematization of ablation of the uterus or prostate while less ...
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Surgeons warn of risks associated with knee surgery
The removal of the menisci, located in the knees, is an operation too often performed according to some surgeons. They ...
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Prostate cancer: fewer heavy treatments thanks to “active surveillance”
Men with "low-risk prostate cancer" have less and less recourse to radiotherapy or prostatectomy. Many men with low-risk prostate cancer ...
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Kidney cancer, the winning strategy: in Angers, two doctors invent a revolutionary treatment
In 2015, two doctors from the Angers University Hospital developed a revolutionary technique to treat kidney cancer. Today, a hundred ...
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Russian tattooed on 90% of body, gets penis and nipples removed
At 32 years old, Adam Curlykale made the decision to have his penis, testicles and nipples removed so that he ...
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Atrial fibrillation: catheter ablation reduces risk of death and stroke
Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart disorder in adults over 40 years old. Researchers recently discovered an effective way ...
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Breast cancer and sex life: staying in love
Ablation, chemotherapy, radiotherapy ... Treatments for breast cancer are heavy, and sometimes lifelong. This long journey often upsets the couple's ...
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Localized prostate cancer: follow-up works as well as surgery
Prostate removal and radiation therapy do not improve survival in cancer patients when compared to active surveillance. This is the ...
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Prostate cancer: what if ablation was not essential?
September 21, 2016. According to a study conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Oxford, UK, prostate ...
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Kidney patients uneven facing transplant
Kidney transplantation remains the best treatment for kidney failure. It improves life expectancy and quality of life compared to dialysis. ...
Read moreOncogenetics consultations
The identification of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes predisposing to breast or ovarian cancer has allowed the introduction of biological ...
Read moreRadio Frequency Ablation
A heart arrhythmia can be treated with radiofrequency ablation. It heart is a muscle that continuously contracts and relaxes rhythmically ...
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A kidney removed through the navel using a robot
A kidney removed through the navel in a single incision using a robot. A first in Europe. French, the technical ...
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Why Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy
Angelina Jolie revealed that she had had a double mastectomy. The actress carries a gene that significantly increases the risk ...
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Like Angelina Jolie: 5% of French women at risk have a mastectomy
In France, women carrying a gene predisposing to breast cancer, such as Angelina Jolie, are a minority to have a ...
Read moreAppendicitis or the stool sign
Would appendicitis have disappeared in our millennium? Even if today, the diagnosis is faster, perhaps easier, and the intervention a ...
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