But Vaughan had another option for Caletti--a new, less invasive procedure called balloon sinuplasty.
High-tech scans sometimes yield murky results, so patients have to get the more invasive procedure anyway.
Thirteen people who were in invasive procedure group died, compared with just six in the medication group.
They saw that this non-invasive procedure had the potential to revolutionize cancer treatment as a non-toxic alternative to chemotherapy.
Most women still choose to live with pain or undergo a hysterectomy or a less invasive procedure called uterine artery embolization.
The heart plug is implanted through a transcatheter tube inserted through the groin, a minimally invasive procedure compared with open-heart surgery.
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If the new tests are adopted, eventually only women who find a fetus has a condition would need to confirm the results with an invasive procedure.
Even if the trials succeed, another concern is that because the device is threaded into the heart, it carries its own risk for complications as an invasive procedure.
Gastric band surgery is pitched as a minimally invasive procedure.
But researchers said half of those deaths had occurred in patients who had been allocated to the invasive procedure group but were unsuitable for revascularisation or unwilling to have it.
In one of the biggest shifts in two decades, dozens of hospitals have started offering the new approach, a less invasive procedure that entails making five or six keyhole incisions through which instruments and a tiny camera are inserted.
C-sections a risky and invasive procedure.
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She vocally opposed the forced vaginal ultra-sound bill in Idaho that would impose an unnecessary and invasive medical procedure on women seeking abortions.
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Unsurprisingly, the primary application is to handle tasks inside your body, such as deploying it via a "minimally-invasive catheter procedure" rather than implanting it through surgery.
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The new procedure was coronary angioplasty, a far less invasive and expensive procedure than coronary bypass surgery that is now performed over a million times each year in the U.S. alone, while saving countless lives.
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The best performers included Mako Surgical, which makes a less-invasive knee surgery procedure, was the best-performing stock in August.
Her frisker was very polite and the procedure was barely invasive, if a bit more aggressive than in the past.
Renal denervation therapy is a minimally invasive, catheter-based procedure that modulates the output of nerves that lie within the renal artery wall and lead into and out of the kidneys.
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Bolli has refined his procedure to make it less invasive -- stem cells can now be taken through a catheter -- and none of the patients in cardiac stem cell trials have suffered serious adverse effects.
"The Essure procedure is typically performed as an outpatient procedure and is intended to be a less invasive and a less costly alternative to tubal ligation, the leading form of birth control worldwide, " says Oberweis.
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