What PRK Results Usually Look Like Once Healing Finishes and How Long They Hold
PRK reshapes the cornea after its surface layer is removed, so vision is blurry for the first several days and sharpens gradually rather than…
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Acibadem Health Blog
4,139 plain-language articles across 62 topics, symptoms explained, nutrition, lab results, medical technology and everyday wellbeing, written by Dr. Şule Eren, published daily by the group behind 45 hospitals and clinics in Türkiye, Bulgaria, Serbia, Netherlands and North Macedonia. For clinical guidance on a condition or procedure, see the Patient Guides.
What Does Image Guidance Change in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (ESS)? Navigation Explained
Image guided sinus surgery adds a real-time navigation system to standard endoscopic sinus surgery. A pre-operative CT scan is matched to the patient's head…
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Root Canal Recovery: What the First Days Feel Like and When to Check In
Most people recover from a root canal within a few days. Mild soreness or tenderness when biting typically peaks in the first 24 to…
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How X-Rays and CT Scans Guide Trauma Surgery Decisions After a Serious Injury
After a serious injury, X-rays and CT scans give trauma surgeons a map of what is broken, bleeding or displaced before anyone decides to…
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Preparing for Hand Surgery: Nerve Tests, Imaging and the Medicines Your Team Reviews
To prepare for hand surgery, most people complete nerve tests such as a nerve conduction study or EMG, imaging such as X-ray, ultrasound or…
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Food Noise: Why GLP-1 Medicines Quiet It, and What Helps When You Are Not on Them
Food noise is the persistent, intrusive stream of thoughts about food that continues when the body does not need fuel. GLP-1 medicines such as…
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Bowel Prep Before Robotic Colorectal Surgery: Colonoscopy, Blood Thinners and the Day Before
Bowel prep before colorectal surgery usually means a colonoscopy to confirm and mark the site, a clear-liquid day with an osmotic laxative and often…
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When Is a Wound Considered Chronic? How a Wound Clinic Finds the Cause Behind Stalled Healing
A wound is generally considered chronic when it has not moved through the normal stages of healing in about four weeks, or has not…
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After Contrast Imaging: The Changes That Mean Your Kidneys Need a Check Sooner
Most people who receive contrast dye for a CT scan or MRI have no lasting effect on their kidneys, but anyone with reduced kidney…
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Before Lupus Nephritis Therapy: Pregnancy Plans, Infection Risks and Vaccination Status
Before lupus nephritis therapy begins, care teams usually ask three linked questions: whether pregnancy is planned, because some immunosuppressive medicines can harm a developing…
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Why Does Adrenal Insufficiency Need a Plan Before Surgery or During Infection?
Adrenal insufficiency needs a plan before surgery or during infection because the adrenal glands cannot release the surge of cortisol a healthy body produces…
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Reformer Pilates vs Mat Pilates vs Yoga: What Each Builds and Who It Suits
Reformer Pilates uses a sliding carriage and adjustable springs to add resistance and support to Pilates movements, so it tends to build more measurable…
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What a Squint (Strabismus) Is, and How It Is Treated
A squint, called strabismus in the US, is a condition in which the two eyes do not point in the same direction: one looks…
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Puffy Eyes and Eye Bags: Fluid, Fat or Skin? How the Cause Decides the Fix
Puffy eyes come from one of three things: fluid pooling in the thin eyelid tissue, orbital fat pushing forward as the tissue holding it…
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Facial Reconstruction After Trauma: How Bone, Nerve and Soft-Tissue Repairs Are Sequenced
Facial trauma reconstruction surgery is sequenced by priority, not by appearance. Life-threatening problems come first: the airway, bleeding, the brain and the neck. Sight-threatening…
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Follow-Up After Thyroid Cancer: What Blood Tests and Ultrasound Track Over Time
After treatment for differentiated thyroid cancer, follow-up usually rests on three blood tests, thyroglobulin, thyroglobulin antibodies and TSH, paired with a neck ultrasound. Thyroglobulin…
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Basal Cell Carcinoma in Older Adults: How Treatment Is Tailored to Health and Skin
Basal cell carcinoma treatment in older adults is tailored to the tumor's size, location, subtype and growth rate, and to the person's overall health,…
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Flying Home After Cruciate Ligament Surgery: Clot Precautions, Bracing and Timing
Most people can fly after ACL surgery once the surgical team has confirmed that swelling is settling, the wound is healing and clot risk…
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