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Patient Information Leaflets
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Extended right hemicolectomy
What happens during an operation to remove the right side of your colon and most or all of your transverse colon and occasionally some of the left colon
Femoral endarterectomy
Explains an operation to surgically remove the narrowing or blockage within an artery
Femoral popliteal bypass surgery
Explains an operation to bypass a blocked portion of an artery in the leg using a piece of another blood vessel.
Femoral to femoral crossover surgery
Advice about an operation to bypass the blocked arteries in your pelvis that supply your leg, so that the blood supply is improved
First 6 weeks after weight loss surgery
Outlines what to expect in the first 6 weeks following your weight loss surgery and provides information and advice to support you
Foam sclerotherapy treatment for varicose veins
A procedure used to seal off varicose veins using ultrasound guidance - what it entails, risks and aftercare advice
Full thickness skin graft aftercare advice
Information for patients who have had plastic and reconstructive surgery
Gastric band adjustment
Information about a procedure called gastric band adjustment
Gastric band surgery (LAGB)
Information about gastric band surgery, including risks and benefits.
Gastro oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) surgery
Outlines surgery offered for acid reflux disease (GORD), as well as the related complications and side effects of surgery
General Surgical Unit discharge
Aims to answer your questions about leaving the General Surgical Unit (GSU)
Getting ready for elective (planned) surgery (not hip)
Advice on how to get yourself and your home ready for when you leave hospital after an elective (planned) operation
Getting the best results from your gastric band
Gives dietary advice following your bariatric (weight loss) surgery
Going home with a Redivac drain following breast surgery
Explains why you have it, how to use it safely and how to care for your wound after leaving hospital
Hadfield's procedure
Explains what happens during a breast operation to disconnect and remove part of (i.e. biopsy) the major nipple ducts
Haemorrhoid (piles) outpatient treatment options
Outlines outpatient treatment options for haemorrhoids
High anterior resection
What happens during surgery to remove the sigmoid colon, which lies on the left side of your abdominal cavity (tummy), and the upper part of the rectum
Holding on exercises
Series of exercises that may help you with your symptoms of faecal urgency (urgent need to poo)
Implant based breast reconstruction
Information for women who are having a mastectomy and who are suitable for breast reconstruction using implants
Intermittent claudication
Information about and management of intermittent claudication (leg pain) due a narrowing or blockage in the main artery taking blood down to your leg