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(MedPage Today) -- Surgery successfully relieved pressure on the brain in patients with cases of severe traumatic brain injury, researchers reported, but the procedure did not improve long-term outcomes.

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- Achieving sustained virologic response is a boon to patients even 20 years down the road, researchers said here.

Surgery for torn knee ligaments and meniscal cartilage may have improved patients' short-term outcomes, but it did not seem to prevent the eventual development of osteoarthritis, researchers said.

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Refractive surgery provides good long term outcomes for kids when lasers are used to correct anisometropia, but problems arise over time after lens implantation, two studies revealed.

LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (MedPage Today) -- Insurers' billing claims may provide an easy and accurate means of tracking the long-term outcomes of kidney transplant recipients, researchers found.

GRONINGEN, The Netherlands (MedPage Today) -- Conventional cold storage for cadaver kidneys does not appear to yield the best transplantation outcomes, an international randomized trial showed.

PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Live kidney donors who are obese do well after donation, at least in the short term, and so do the recipients, according to a retrospective cohort study.