In the traditional thinking, continuation of preoperative cardiovascular medications, such as β-blockers and calcium-channel blockers (CCBs), was believed to improve patients' tolerance of the ...

More information: Jens Hoeppner et al, Perioperative Chemotherapy or Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy in Esophageal Cancer, New England Journal of Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2409408 ...

The issues surrounding medication use in the perioperative period can be compared to the ethical principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence. These address the obligation of medical professionals ...

Heart surgery is a serious and invasive medical procedure, and that can be intimidating for a patient. A new study published ...

Standalone canaloplasty and trabeculotomy can deliver meaningfully reduced IOP in the long term and require fewer topical therapy agents.

Himani Goyal, MD, takes glaucoma care to the next level by embracing advancements that extend beyond traditional treatment ...

An important question is whether perioperative chemotherapy is preferable to preoperative chemoradiotherapy. In this phase 3, multicenter, randomized trial, we assigned in a 1:1 ratio patients ...

Acute and chronic postoperative pain and functional disability persisted among patients who underwent posterior spinal fusion despite multimodal analgesic management.

A recent study published in recent issue of The Journal of Arthroplasty revealed that preoperative statin use is associated ...

Heart surgery is a serious and invasive medical procedure, and that can be intimidating for a patient. A new study published ...

Topical ABT-263 effectively reduced several senescence markers in aged skin, preparing it for improved wound healing.

Overall survival at 3 years was 57.4% and 50.7% in the FLOT and preoperative-chemoradiotherapy groups, respectively, with a median follow-up of 55 months. Jens Hoeppner, MD, from Bielefeld ...