Gastric bypass is a type of weight-loss surgery involving creating a small pouch from the stomach and connecting the newly created pouch directly to the small intestine. After the surgery, swallowed food will go into this small pouch of the stomach and then directly into the small intestine, thereby bypassing most of your stomach and the first section of your small intestine.
Dermatologists diagnose and treat conditions affecting your hair, skin, and nails. They also treat conditions that affect mucous membranes, or the delicate tissue that lines your nose, mouth, and eyelids.
A cochlear implant is a small, complex electronic device that can help to provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard-of-hearing. A cochlear implant is not the same thing as a hearing aid. It is implanted using surgery and works differently.
A cataract is when a cloudy area in the lens of the eye, causes a decrease in vision. Cataracts often develop slowly and can affect one or both eyes. Symptoms of cataracts may include faded colors, blurry or double vision, halos around light, trouble with bright lights, and trouble seeing at night.
Kidney transplant rejection occurs when the recipient's immune system identifies the donated kidney as foreign and mounts an attack against it. This can happen despite the close matching of tissues and the use of immunosuppressive drugs designed to minimize immune response.
An arm lift is a cosmetic surgical procedure to improve the appearance of the under portion of your upper arms. During Brachioplasty, or arm lift, excess skin and fat are removed from between the armpit and elbow. You might choose to have an arm lift if the undersides of your upper arms are sagging.
LASIK eye surgery is the best-known and most commonly performed laser refractive surgery to correct vision problems. During this, a special type of cutting laser is used to precisely change the shape of the dome-shaped clear tissue at the front of your eye (cornea) to improve vision.
Strabismus or crossed eyes refer to the condition in which your eyes do not line up with one another. Simply put, one eye is turned in a direction while the other one is not. Normally, the six muscles in charge of controlling eye movement, work together and point both eyes in the same direction.
While blepharoplasty is the surgery that removes excess skin from the eyelids, canthoplasty involves reshaping the corner of the eye. As blepharoplasty fixes sagging eyebrows, droopy upper lids, and bags under the eyes, canthoplasty is used to correct drooping or sagging of the outer corner of the eye by elevating the canthal angle to achieve a bigger and brighter-looking eye.
A breast reduction (reduction mammaplasty) is a surgery used to remove fat, breast tissue, and skin from the breasts. For those suffering from large breasts, this surgery may offer comfort, and improve appearance and self-image. Some of these patients suffer physical discomforts such as back pain or neck strain.
