Neurosurgical rehabilitation is a complex medical process that involves therapeutic and pedagogical measures aimed at restoring the patient’s work capacity or the ability for self-care after neurosurgical procedures. Operations on the spinal cord or brain performed to remove tumors or treat strokes, injuries, and other conditions...
Immune system is one of the most complicated and poorly studied among other system of the human body. Nonetheless, German doctors learned how to detect and treat many diseases of immune system. Immune status can be checked with the laboratory methods. Immune status of a person represents functional and...
Phimosis is the impossibility of retracting the foreskin from around the glans penis. This is a normal physiological condition in young boys, as it protects the penis and the external urethral opening from trauma and infections. As a rule, physiological phimosis goes away on its own during the first few years of a boy's life.
Many diseases, even with a timely and high quality treatment, are still accompanied by side effects. These can be movement disorders, loss of coordination, speech and mental disorders, deterioration of appearance, and many other residual effects. Rehabilitative measures are used to eliminate, reduce, or compensate them.
Robot-assisted procedures have been used in medical practice for over 30 years. Most often, doctors perform a prostate removal (prostatectomy) with the help of the da Vinci robotic system. The second place in terms of the number of surgeries performed is taken by the removal of the uterus (hysterectomy) and other types of urogynecologic...
Neuropsychiatric disorders significantly worsen the quality of life, not only for the patient but also for their family. Treatment for these diseases is long and is associated with many side effects and relapses. However, it does not guarantee the desired result. Deep brain stimulation may be indicated to the patient in such cases.
Worldwide health community pays special attention to the development of innovative neurosurgical techniques, since general brain tumors incidence reaches 20 per...
A timely diagnosis of prostate cancer allows for successful treatment in most patients. Modern oncology, however, has reached a point where simply curing cancer is not enough. Ideally, it should be done quickly, without significant physical suffering, without a long recovery, and without complications such as impotence or urinary incontinence.