In the not-too-distant future, he thinks new minimally invasive technologies will make the controversy obsolete.
Little hard data exists comparing the minimally invasive operation with the old "open" version.
He has devised minimally invasive techniques that have transformed spinal surgery and made him a billionaire.
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We developed the robot to bring the benefits of minimally invasive surgery to more women.
Boston Scientific Corporation is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of minimally invasive medical devices.
Basco-Yu's operation in 1998 was a type of minimally invasive surgery performed at Duke University Medical Center.
Gracias' microgrippers could be used for things like very minimally invasive biopsies, but he has much bigger--or, smaller--plans.
Minimally invasive prostate removal was pioneered in the late 1990s by two French surgeons, Guy Vallancien and Bertrand Guillonneau.
Rabiner, who helped launch minimally invasive surgical devices while at American Cyanamid in the early 1990s, formed the Wilmington, Mass.
Studies show that patients undergoing minimally invasive surgery have a quicker recovery and less short-term pain than with open repair.
This minimally invasive process freezes fat cells and causes them to die and disappear over the course of a couple months.
The heart plug is implanted through a transcatheter tube inserted through the groin, a minimally invasive procedure compared with open-heart surgery.
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But some surgeons who perform traditional open surgery warn that the rush to offer the minimally invasive operation may compromise patients' health.
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In 2001 Yun and Lee came across FoxHollow Technologies, which was developing a minimally invasive device that removes the plaque from clogged arteries.
Today researchers are building force feedback surgical instruments for use in simulating--and eventually performing--minimally invasive surgical procedures like angioplasty or laparoscopic gall bladder removals.
Other minimally invasive technologies (no surgery) are being used to stop heartburn, zap enlarged prostates and destroy painful uterine fibroids, making a hysterectomy unnecessary.
The culturally frugal Japanese enjoyed low taxes, minimally invasive regulations and sound monetary policies that encouraged reinvesting profits back into their infrastructure and productive capacities.
Using a Da Vinci surgery platform, made by Intuitive Surgical, surgeons can perform minimally invasive procedures on the abdomen as an alternative to laparoscopies or laparotomies.
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"We are shifting the nature of health care from maximally invasive to minimally invasive therapies, " says Joshua Hirsch, director of interventional neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
While she will have to review her surgical options when the time comes, "it does sound like the minimally invasive option would be the best, " she said.
In 1989 he was recruited for his first chief executive job, at Target Therapeutics, which then made catheters for minimally invasive liver surgery and later for brain surgery.
Gastric band surgery is pitched as a minimally invasive procedure.
While minimally invasive techniques have been around for about the last decade, this particular type has been offered at Mayo for just the last three years, Suri said.
So our charge is to do all that we can to protect those that travel, but also to do so in a way that's, as I said, minimally invasive.
In his view a surgeon who wants to perform even minimally invasive bariatric surgery should attend specific courses, take fellowships and operate under the trained eye of an expert surgeon.
Renal denervation therapy is a minimally invasive, catheter-based procedure that modulates the output of nerves that lie within the renal artery wall and lead into and out of the kidneys.
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But now medical device makers are introducing an array of new, minimally invasive procedures to provide long-term pain relief without all the costs, risks, complications and recovery time of full-scale surgery.
But new, minimally invasive surgeries now allow people to be out of the hospital in about three days and back to their normal routine in a week or two, Suri said.
Self-assembly was very useful in eye-of-the-needle problems in cases where you had to get something very large through a very small hole and Leuthardt wondered if it might be helpful in minimally invasive surgery.
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