Hydrocele : -A hydrocele occurs when fluid collects in the membranes surrounding the testes. Hydroceles may cause swelling in the scrotum around the testicle but are generally painless. In some cases, surgery may be needed to correct the condition. ...
Heart bypass surgery is when a surgeon takes a blood vessel from another part of your body to go around, or bypass, a blocked artery. The result is that more blood and oxygen can flow to your heart again. Imagine you’re on a highway. An accident causes traffic to pile up ahead. Em...
Fluid retention after open-heart surgerydoi:10.1016/0047-0740(73)90050-8S. Garnett and C. WebberInternational Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology
hemolymph to the various body organs, where they end in tissue spaces. The hemolymph then collects in the hemocoel and returns to the heart by two parallel veins, one through the kidney and one through the gill. Although the Aplysia heart is innervated, its normal beat persists after ...
The purpose of surgical therapy is to remove or correct the pathology mechanically. According to the disease it can be ablative when it deals with the partial or total surgical removal of the sick organ or corrective when it is aimed at the restitution of the organ or system integrity, which...
Proximally, the resection should include the thickened and chronically inflamed or fibrotic colon segment but need not remove all of the colonic diverticula. Thus, when the inflammation and fibrosis are limited to the sigmoid colon, an anastomosis from descending colon to rectum is adequate, whereas...
If these treatments don’t work for a low-grade tear, or your doctor finds that you have a Grade 3 tear, you will probably need surgery. The goal of surgery is to remove or repair the meniscus. By doing this, you should have more stability in the knee and reduce the risk of arthrit...
critical time in the recovery process because it’s when your body is most vulnerable. However small, surgery is another form of injury to your tissues, so your body responds to it with inflammation. Right after surgery, you may experience pain, swelling, and fluid buildup around the knee ...
in order to avert the cancer from recurring in that area. Sometimes it is not possible to remove the whole tumour, and a surgery known as "debunking" is done to remove as much of the tumour as possible and to relieve indications such as airway obstruction, pain, or bleeding. However the...
Abdominal distention becomes apparent after 24 to 48 hours duration. This is caused by gas and fluid distention of the forestomach and intestines, and sequestration of ingesta within the gastrointestinal tract results in progressive dehydration and electrolyte depletion. Heart rate will increase ...