A ventricular shunt is a surgically implanted thin, plastic tube that drains extra fluid and relieves pressure on the brain. Children receive ventricular shunts for hydrocephalus, a condition where ...

Doctors in Washington last week made surgical history when they slipped an ingenious and incredibly small ultra sound probe inside a patient’s eyeball for the first time and located a sliver of brass.

WASHINGTON, March 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A recently published article in Experimental Biology and Medicine (Volume 247, Issue 6, March, 2022) describes a novel treatment for dry eye disease ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Temporal artery ultrasound and EULAR score are reliable means for diagnosing giant cell ...

Use of an eye ultrasound may quickly and safely identify children with brain drainage tube failure in the emergency department, according to a new study. The research will be presented at the ...

The ultrasound stimulation system: Acoustic waves targeted at the retina excite the retinal neurons, which generate neural signals that are transmitted through the optic nerve to the brain. Brain ...

A review of clinical records of children with the diagnosis of retinoblastoma at the Hospital for Sick Children from January 1995 to December 2007, for whom UBM was used to determine the extent of ...

We examined sclerotomies that were performed using 20-G systems and non-stitch 23-G systems, one-step (23/1) and two-step procedures (23/2), as well as one-step 25-G systems for pars plana vitrectomy ...

Dublin, May 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Ophthalmic Ultrasound Imaging System Market by Product (A- Scan, B- Scan, Combined Scan), Modality (Portable, Standalone), End User - Cumulative ...

Barnaby, the 70-or-so-year-old Aldabra tortoise at Blank Park Zoo, has a problem. In his left eye, which is shiny and black like an onyx gemstone, there's been an off-and-on pool of blood between his ...

Medical devices are proving a primary driver of semiconductor innovation, according to Texas Instruments. Valued at $2.67billion in 2007 by Databeans, and with double-digit growth predicted for ...