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Current treatment of cystic echinococcosis is surgery or percutaneous aspiration, injection and reaspiration (PAIR) using hypertonic saline or ethanol. It is aimed at causing permanent damage to the endocyst - the thin, delicate, and translucid inner membrane that produces the cystic fluid and generates new larval elements able to expand the infestation. Surgery and PAIR on liver and lung can result in biliary or bronchial fistulae, prompted by endocyst detachment; chemical cholangitis or...

Infertility problems, caused by polycystic ovary syndrome may be helped by acupuncture, a U.S. researcher suggests. University of Virginia Health System's Lisa Pastore reports preliminary results in a trial in which she showed acupuncture may help women with PCOS -- a disease that causes hormone imbalances that interfere with ovulation and can cause infertility. "Over the last year we have seen women who never had a regular menstrual cycle start having regular periods. We can also boast...

William Postwaite, left, and Niles Stewart ride out of the American Fork Campgrounds after the Scooter Rally organized by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to raise money for research of the disease on Saturday. The rally started in Pleasant Grove at Planet Power Toys, which sponsored it. (c) 2008 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Our grandson, 7 years old, has a disorder called VCF. It's a genetic condition. Neither his father (our son) nor his mother has it. How can this be genetic when neither parent has it? He has trouble keeping up with the other children in school, and his speech is hard to understand. Please provide information. His parents don't know where to turn. - L.I. ANSWER: Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, long strands to which all our genes are attached. Chromosomes are like...

By Setacci, F Sirignano, P; de Donato, G; Chisci, E; Palasciano, G; Setacci, C Adventitlal cystic disease (ACD) is an uncommon condition with only around 300 cases reported in the literature. ACD consists of a collection of gelatinous material within a cyst, that is adjacent or surrounding a vessel. In the last five years three cases of ACD have been observed: the first case was a 48-year-old man, ex nicotine abuser, with a four-month history of progressive claudication; the second case was...

By Johnston, Jeffrey Wheatley, Grayson H III; Sayed, Hosam F El; Marsh, William B; Ellison, E Christopher; Bloomston, Mark Gastric duplication cysts in adults are very rare and usually found incidentally during evaluation for an unrelated ailment. When they are found in close proximity to the pancreas, they can be confused with cystic neoplasms of the pancreas, which are typically also asymptomatic yet more common. As part of the evaluation of cystic pancreatic lesions, cyst fluid analysis...

Veterinarians at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle combined their efforts with pediatric surgeons to remove a cyst near the spine of a baby gorilla, which is thought to be the first type of this surgery performed on any animal. The procedure, performed on Thursday morning at the zoo, took roughly an hour. Surgeons from the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center joined zoo vets in removing the mass, which was around 1.5 inches in size. The surgery also confirmed that the baby gorilla...

Corrects March 13 story to read in third paragraph "He had laparoscopic surgery to remove..." instead of orthoscopic surgery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Sean Connery had surgery in New York to remove a cyst on his kidney a few weeks ago and has recovered and received a clean bill of health, his representative said on Monday. The Scottish actor best known as the original James Bond in films such as "Dr. No," "From Russia with Love" and "Goldfinger" is now 75. "He had laparoscopic...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Sean Connery had surgery in New York to remove a cyst on his kidney a few weeks ago and has recovered and received a clean bill of health, his representative said on Monday. The Scottish actor best known as the original James Bond in films such as "Dr. No," "From Russia with Love" and "Goldfinger" is now 75. "He had orthoscopic surgery to remove a cyst on his kidney," spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer said. She said Connery had spent a short time in hospital in New...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The damage to "ovarian reserve" is quantitative rather than qualitative when ovarian cysts are excised using minimally invasive laparoscopy, Italian researchers report. Importantly, they say, this approach has a good chance of preserving a woman's fertility.An ovarian endometrioma is a cyst that is attached to the ovaries and that often contains ovarian tissue.Dr. Guido Ragni and colleagues from Universita Degli Studi di Milano studied 38 women who had...