Wyss Institute

While there are situations when it is still preferable, open surgery means longer hospital stays, longer recovery, more pain, larger scars, and higher risks of complications such as bleeding and infection. Minimally invasive laparoscopic…

In addition to the language, field of vision, and other deficits caused by stroke, 8 out of 10 stroke survivors suffer from "hemiparesis,” a paralysis that typically impacts the limbs and facial muscles on one side of their bodies. It often…