Thu,09 February 2012
Because the course of Peyronie's disease is different in each patient and because some patients experience improvement without treatment, medical experts suggest waiting 1 to 2 years or longer before attempting to correct it surgically. During that wait, patients often are willing to undergo treatments whose effectiveness has not been proven.
Some researchers have given men with Peyronie's disease vitamin E orally in small-scale studies and have reported improvements. Yet, no controlled studies have established the effectiveness of vitamin E therapy. Similar inconclusive
Sun,15 January 2012
A compelling University of Michigan Health System study made assumptions about the role of complications in distinguishing good and bad hospitals. The report in New England Journal of Medicine confirms that serious complications are common after major surgery - about 1 in 6 patients - but the study shows what drives hospital mortality is failure to rescue. Low mortality hospitals have medical teams with the ability to rescue patients by recognizing and heading off potentially catastrophic complications such as deep wound infections, pneumonia, kidney failure, blood clots, and strokes. In spite of |
