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A 90-year old woman (and her daughter) surmount countless obstacles from misdiagnoses to COVID chaos

Zofia Morena is a successful fashion model, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and lifelong devotee of wellness and integrative lifestyles. She is married with two boys. But despite a successful, satisfying, and busy lifestyle, Zofia suffered for six long years with hyperparathyroid disease.

Dr. Lee and several other surgeons from the Department of Surgery collaborated with doctors in the Nuclear Imaging Department to invent a new type of parathyroid imaging, which fuses key aspects of both the nuclear medicine scan and the traditional CT scan, allowing surgeons to not only tell which parathyroid gland was malfunctioning, but also where exactly it is located and what its shape is.

In order to understand the parathyroid glands, we are going to take you back in time – far, far back, to about 375 million years ago when a group of vertebrates climbed out of the water and onto land.