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Certain patients with obstructive sleep apnea who are deemed eligible candidates may be offered the hypoglossal nerve stimulator as an alternative. FDA-approved hypoglossal nerve neurostimulation is considered medically reasonable and necessary for the treatment of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea when all of the following criteria are met: [4]
The process of implantation of medical devices is subjected to the same complications that other invasive medical procedures can have during or after surgery. Common complications include infection, inflammation, and pain. Other complications that can occur include risk of rejection from implant-induced coagulation and allergic foreign body ...
Pascual et al. (2011) revised the follow-up results of the first 50 people that submit to sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) to treat fecal incontinence in Madri (Spain). The most common cause for the fecal incontinence was obstetric procedures, idiopathic origin and prior anal surgery, and all these people were refractory to the conservative ...
The fact that IUD insertion is uncomfortable (to put it mildly) has made headlines in recent months, but many of the one in five sexually active American females who have gotten the device still ...
Cochlear implantation surgery is considered a clean procedure with an infection rate of less than 3%. [32] Guidelines suggest that routine prophylactic antibiotics are not required. [ 33 ] However, the potential cost of a postoperative infection is high (including the possibility of implant loss); therefore, a single preoperative intravenous ...
Implant that has been used for fixation of a broken wrist. Closed reduction internal fixation (CRIF) is reduction without any open surgery, followed by internal fixation. It appears to be an acceptable alternative in unstable distressed lateral condylar fractures of the humerus in children, but if fracture displacement after closed reduction exceeds 2 mm, open reduction and internal fixation ...
A magnet in the process of insertion into the tip of the ring finger. The magnets used for implantation must be carefully selected and coated in order to successfully implant them. Size is important in this consideration, as too large of a magnet obstructs blood vessels and is likely to reject, or push out of the skin.
An eyeball implant, or extraocular implant, is a cosmetic implant involving a tiny piece of decorative jewelry which is implanted within the superficial, interpalpebral conjunctiva of the human eye (the covering of the white of the eye, in the area that is normally visible between the eyelids).