New robotic technology has arrived at Puyallup’s MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital – and it creates a world of difference for ...

John Mauceri had a complicated health history, but his sudden swelling and fatigue left his team of doctors stumped.

Surgical bioprosthetic aortic valves made with bioengineered Resilia tissue (Edwards Lifesciences) appear to suffer less structural deterioration over 8 years compared with similar devices made of ...

Background— The clinical significance of pericardial biopsy is controversial. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and diagnostic value of 3 approaches to pericardial biopsy: fluorosco ...

This includes extracting fluid from the pericardium or ordering a biopsy of pericardial tissue. A pericardial biopsy involves extracting a small amount of tissue. Samples are sent off for testing.

A surgeon may choose to perform a pericardial window if cardiac tamponade recurs, there is active bleeding within the chest or heart, or if a biopsy (a tissue sample taken and analyzed in the lab) is ...

Pericardial biopsy is reserved for patients with a high ... imaging to evaluate the anterior interatrial septal tissue rim, since a deficient anterior rim has been proposed as one of the ...

Liquid Biopsy over Tissue Biopsy Currently, tissue biopsy is the "gold standard" for diagnosis of cancer. The medical procedure involves taking a small sample of the tissue where the cancer may be ...

In addition, a CT-guided percutaneous needle biopsy was conducted, and subsequently, histopathological analysis of the tissue sample supported the diagnosis of pericardial sclerosing rhabdomyosarcoma ...

Testing blood samples from patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) for tumor mutations prior to their receiving a confirmed diagnosis via tissue biopsy can help shorten the ...

His synovial sarcoma diagnosis was diagnosed 2 years prior after a biopsy was ... to look for pericardial effusions in the context of chest pain, dyspnoea and muffled heart sounds, clinicians would do ...