Journals

A surgeon at new York’s Montefiore Medical Center is receiving press coverage for his “breakthrough” spinal procedure to correct adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Angiographically determined aneurysm recurrence was less common with hydrogel-coated than with bare-platinum coils, but clinical relevance remains unclear.

The results of the first randomised controlled trial comparing percutaneous mitral valve repair against conventional mitral valve surgery suggests the short term advantages of the technique may be outweighed by inferior long term results compared with conventional surgery.