| Plastic Surgeons Warn Of Malnutrition In Body Contouring Patients Identifying malnutrition before surgery in massive weight loss patients seeking body contouring will significantly decrease surgical complications, accelerate wound healing, improve scar quality and boost patient energy levels, according to a study in the December issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery(R), the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). medicalnewstoday.com |
Paraplegic Receives Rare Nerve Transplant To Relieve Life-Altering Pressure Ulcers The Plastic Surgery Center today announced that in a highly rare procedure, a paraplegic received a nerve grafting to relieve life-altering posterior pressure ulcers. The surgery was performed by a New Jersey medical team under the direction of Dr. Andrew Elkwood. World-renowned in the field of nerve transplantation, Dr. Elkwood utilized his expertise in a way that can be life-altering for paraplegics worldwide whose lives are subjugated by acute posterior sores. medicalnewstoday.com |
Peru’s Police Say Gang Drained Victims’ Fat A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, the police said Thursday. nytimes.com |
Ability To Blink Restored, Eyesight Saved By Artificial Muscles Surgeons from UC Davis Medical Center have demonstrated that artificial muscles can restore the ability of patients with facial paralysis to blink, a development that could benefit the thousands of people each year who no longer are able to close their eyelids due to combat-related injuries, stroke, nerve injury or facial surgery... mnt.to |
Patients Find Computer Imaging Before Rhinoplasty Moderately Accurate, Useful Computer imaging to predict how patients will look following plastic surgery involving the nose appears to be moderately accurate, and patients value its inclusion in the preoperative consultation, according to a report in the November/December issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals... mnt.to |