University Hospitals is now offering endoscopic spine surgery for patients needing treatment for back pain due to herniated ...

Recently, Dr. J. Alex Sielatycki, a fellowship-trained spine surgeon at Pioneers Medical Center (PMC) in Meeker, started ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Surgical treatment of lumbar disc herniation is a widely debated topic, with several techniques available. Percutaneous endoscopic discectomy (PELD) has gained popularity due to ...

A percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram (per-kew-tay-nee-us trans-hep-attic col-an-jee-o-gram) is a way of looking at your bile ducts using x-rays. This test is also called a PTC. You may have a ...

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is a type of spine surgery used for the treatment of neck or arm pain caused by cervical radiculopathy. This surgery involves the removal of a protruding ...

If they don't help, then they could suggest a laminectomy. Reasons to get a lumbar laminectomy The most common kind of laminectomy focuses on relieving nerve pain in your lower back (lumbar spine.) ...

[26] Haaker et al. treated 16 patients with spondylodiscitis by using percutaneous lumbar discectomy. They concluded that it is a useful and minimally invasive technique for the conservative ...

Percutaneous lumbar discectomy is indicated in noncontained disc herniations. Transforaminal endoscopic microdiscectomy differs from other percutaneous discectomy procedures in that direct ...

We describe a case of percutaneous transjugular TVR with a 22-mm valve in a 28-year-old woman with a history of bioprosthetic tricuspid valve replacement (27-mm Medtronic Mosaic valve, Minneapolis, ...