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Mark E Ginsburg, MD
… Dr. Mark E. Ginsburg is an associate Professor of Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center and surgical director of the Diaphragm Program and the Lung Volume Reduction program. …
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Jennifer Hong Kuo, MD
… Dr. Jennifer H. Kuo is a board-certified surgeon-scientist nationally recognized … leader in ultrasound-guided percutaneous ablation of thyroid nodules. Among the earliest adopters of radiofrequency ablation (RFA), …
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Pulmonary Embolic Disease
… A pulmonary embolism is a life-threatening blockage of the lung’s blood supply, …
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How Getting Colon Cancer at 21 Changes Everything
… Transcript: I was diagnosed in May of 2013 which was my graduation day. I'm gonna cry I'm sorry. Do you guys get criers? My name is Adalis Martinez and I'm 23 years old. I think I was 18 … and I insisted and eventually they did it and they found the polyp there. So the hospital that I originally went to …
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Clinical Training
… The Columbia General Surgery Residency is a robust clinical experience both in and out of the OR. Throughout the course of the training program, …
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Whipple Procedure (Pancreaticoduodenectomy)
… Reviewed by the physicians of Columbia’s Pancreatic Surgery Team , October 2024 About … often referred to as the Whipple procedure, is the most common operation to treat pancreatic cancer. The …
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Minimally Invasive and Endovascular Aortic Procedures
… aortic procedures involve making small incisions in the skin to perform a surgical procedure. It is sometimes possible to repair valves, such as the aortic or … the need to open the chest completely. These kinds of minimally invasive procedures can result in reduced …
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What We’re Reading: 09/06/19
… A few highlights from around the web that made it into our feeds this week. Here’s How a Single Session of Vaping Can Hurt Your Lungs Doctors have been sounding the … may lead to permanent vascular damage. “If the blood flow is decreasing, so is the flow of oxygen,” said Dr. Lori Shah …
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Autologous Islet Cell Transplantation After Total Pancreatectomy
… transplantation Autologous islet transplantation involves the infusion of the patient's own pancreatic islet cells into his or her … enzymes and hormones including insulin, this surgery is reserved only for those in whom pain is so severe and …
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Tomoaki Kato, MD
… Tomoaki Kato, MD, is a noted pioneer in multiple-organ transplantation, … University Irving Medical Center and is a professor of surgery at Columbia University Vagelos College of … liver, making immunosuppressant drugs unnecessary and the first successful human partial bladder transplantation …
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Bronchoscopy / Lung Biopsy
… Bronchoscopy is a diagnostic procedure used to obtain a small amount of lung tissue and fluid samples (a lung biopsy). Key Info … can help detect infections, tumors, and bleeding in the lungs For people who have undergone lung transplant, …
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Sex-hormone Producing Tumor
… estrogen, or both. These tumors are found in 2 out of every million people and can be either benign (adenomas) … while larger tumors are more likely to be malignant, the only way to determine if a sex-hormone producing tumor is cancer is if there is spread into nearby organs (i.e. …
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Pancreatitis Diet
… | Auto Islet Transplants | Diet | Prognosis | FAQ The Importance of Nutrition Nutrition is a vitally important part of treatment for patients with …
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Megan Sykes, MD
… an approach that has been evaluated in clinical trials of non-myeloablative haploidentical HCT whose safety and efficacy allowed trials of HCT for the induction of organ allograft tolerance, allowing … of manipulations used to achieve clinical goals is essential to the translation of these manipulations to the …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 4/15/20
… Each day during the COVID-19 crisis, Dr. Craig Smith, Chair of the Department of Surgery, sends an update to faculty and … adrenaline may wane at a time when effort cannot. It is prosaic in mountaineering to emphasize the frequency of …
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