Diathermy is a deep heating treatment for achy joints and muscles. Learn about how it works, the benefits, the risks, and more. Skip to main content . Home ; Conditions . Back Conditions View All .

Aug. 24, 2009— -- Question: What is laser photocoagulation, when is it used to treat diabetic retinopathy and what are the risks/benefits of this procedure? Answer: Laser treatment uses a ...

Medical diathermy has been defined as the therapeutic use of heat generated in body tissues by a high-frequency current that has insufficient local intensity to produce temperatures high enough to ...

Dr. Miller answers the question: 'How Can Photocoagulation Treat AMD?' Aug. 24, 2009— -- Question: What is photocoagulation, when is it used to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD ...

The most common treatments include medical management, laser photocoagulation, transscleral diathermy, and surgical cyclopexy. ... argon laser photocoagulation to the cleft was necessary.

Results revealed that there was no significant difference with cutting diathermy compared with scalpel incisions in wound complication rate (odds ratio, .87; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.66 - 1 ...

You might have diathermy alongside other treatments. Preparing for diathermy treatment. Your doctor or specialist nurse explains what happens and how they do the treatment. They ask you to sign a form ...

Prophylactic argon laser photocoagulation should be used in myopic patients with retinal tears or breaks before those patients undergo LASIK, a study suggests. The authors contend that repairing ...

Diathermy smoke extraction should be compulsory in operations, research shows Date: February 13, 2015 Source: University of Huddersfield Summary: The electrical devices that are used to cauterize ...

We read with interest the article ‘Subthreshold diode micropulse panretinal photocoagulation for proliferative diabetic retinopathy’ by Luttrull et al. 1 We would like to congratulate the ...

Evidence-based recommendations on electrosurgery (diathermy and coblation) for tonsillectomy. This involves using heat (diathermy) to 'cut' away the tonsils or radiofrequency energy (coblation) to cut ...