Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr. successfully performed his 400th robot-assisted mitral valve repair Friday, June 20, 2008. The surgeon has performed more of these surgeries than anyone else.The operation took place at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, the teach

A new study confirms that hospital compliance with two national standards of the Leapfrog Group for elective abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair is effective in improving operative outcomes. Researchers compared trends in the in-hospital death rate and

OAK BROOK, Ill. – July 31, 2008 – A multicenter U.S. registry study examining the treatment of Barrett's esophagus (BE) with high-grade dysplasia (HGD) showed that in 92 patients treated with endoscopic circumferential ablation who had at least one f

Flexible Stenting Solutions Inc., a leading developer of third generation peripheral arterial stents, announced that a physician at Auckland City Hospital in New Zealand successfully implanted several of its third generation arterial stents for the treatm

Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (NYSE: KCI) announced that it is another step closer to introducing its V.A.C.® Therapy wound care system in Japan with the completion of a two-phase clinical study designed to determine the clinical efficacy, safety and utility of