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Nassau University Medical Center announced the opening on Friday, March 7, of its new thoracic surgery clinic, which will expand specialized surgical care for patients with chest conditions ...

Scoliosis is a curvature in the spine. Most cases of scoliosis develop just before you reach puberty. In those cases, the cause is not known. However, certain diseases like cerebral palsy or ...

Scoliosis (curvature) in the thoracic spine might cause pain in between the shoulder blades if the condition is serious. Some people experience an imbalance in shoulder structure because of the spinal ...

After your scoliosis diagnosis, you’ll be referred to an orthopedic doctor, who will work with you to determine the best way to treat your curved spine. How your condition is managed depends on ...

These guidelines have been developed at the request of the Standards of Care Committee of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and with the agreement of the Royal College of Radiologists and the British ...

of scoliosis grade III. The thoracic segment, thoracolumbar segment and lumbar segment accounted for 35.57%, 26.84%, and 37.58%, respectively. There was no statistically significant difference in the ...

A) Thoracic scoliosis treated with Gruca Springs. B) Double curve scoliosis treated with Gruca Springs. Gruca’s findings were further developed by Prof Jorge Draper Mineiro, who extensively researched ...

What is an aortic dissection? An aortic dissection is a tear (dissection) in the wall of the body’s main artery (aorta). The aorta sends blood from your heart to the rest of your body. A tear causes ...

Notably, among the patients categorized under the scoliosis subtype, CS Type I exhibited the highest prevalence, constituting 40% of the entire patient population. These spinal curvatures primarily ...

Second, the authors include both thoracic and abdominal aneurysms in their study. These are 2 highly disparate diseases (Figure), 9 reflective of different embryological origins of the aortic segments ...