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History of Medicine: Beautiful Exploitation
… 17,000 nail salons across the five boroughs, New Yorkers can get pampered for next to nothing on nearly every block around the city. … the owners locked all but one exit. Apparently they didn’t want the employees to take extended breaks or to steal …
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Watch: Thoracic Surgeons Gives Advice to Young Doctors
… Dr. Sonett, the director of The Price Family Center for Comprehensive Chest Care, shared personal experiences in … related to the chest and gave students the opportunity to ask questions and seek advice. Watch the video for more. …
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Repairing Heart Valves without Surgery
… including heart failure, a condition in which the heart can’t pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs. Because our … Center is one of the first to study and test new devices for heart valve repair and replacement. As a result, our …
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Celebrating New York’s Top Doctors in 2020
… Surgery Lyall A. Gorenstein, MD | Thoracic Surgery* Robert T. Grant, MD | Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Tomoaki Kato, … Castle Connolly’s peer-reviewed directory was much more reliable than review sites when it comes to identifying … quality care. Virtual Care 24/7 Did you know that you can see many of the doctors at Columbia, including this …
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Predatory Artery Treatment for PAD: A Vascular Surgeon Weighs In
… procedures they did not need for a condition that doesn’t often require surgical intervention. Some people in this … Nicholas Morrissey, MD , to discuss how device companies can exploit and, in turn, harm patients through funding … this stuff is regional and local. In other words, it's the folks in the field that are allowed to have some leeway to do …
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Innovative New Treatment Reported for Pectus Excavatum
… resulting in a caved-in, or sunken appearance. It occurs more often in boys than in girls. Although its causes are not … magnet attached to a brace the patients wear at all times for two years. The idea is that slowly the chest wall will be … Until then, read about the surgical treatment options for pectus excavatum Dr. Gorenstein performs on pectus …
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An Interview with Dr. Craig Smith, Heart Surgeon, Chair of Surgery, and Author of Nobility in Small Things
… writing the Updates. And he was right then. Because I didn't know what I was doing. I barely had the nerve to get … comes in. It’s an immediate tennis game in real-time. You can't prepare for that. You can't read books on that … I'm good at it. I've had some striking failures. I have to ask, with your leadership duties and operating, how do you …
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Valve Sparing Aortic Root Replacement (David Procedure)
… the native aortic valve, patients avoid the need for lifelong anticoagulation therapy (coumadin). The patient … The remainder of the ascending aorta is removed except for the valve tissue. Step 2 : Sutures (stitches) are placed … positioned within the graft to eliminate leaking. A fair bit of customized tailoring is then performed to ensure …
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Hernias: What You Need to Know
… (groin) and umbilical hernias. Inguinal hernias are more commonly found in men and often begin developing shortly … usually used to close the hole formed by the hernia. This can often be done on an outpatient basis, under local … is placed through these tubes. This approach can be used for both small and large abdominal wall hernias. While some …
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What the “Big Three” outcomes mean for you
… Heart Valve Center at Columbia. Data is an invaluable tool for patients seeking to make an informed decision about their healthcare. “You can use this data to help your loved ones get the best … patient. Given all of these factors, I think that it is fair to say that, as a quaternary referral center, we tend to …
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Could your thyroid problem actually be an autoimmune disease?
… The American Thyroid Association estimates more than 20 million Americans have some form of thyroid … your immune system attacks your thyroid, which can cause inflammation and lead to an underactive thyroid … or a family history of thyroid problems. The symptoms for Hashimoto’s are often vague and easily confused with …
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Advances in Treating Pancreatitis: Autologous Islet Cell Transplantation
… transplantation. Patients who need a total pancreatectomy for chronic pancreatitis or other benign diseases may be … This condition, inflammation of the pancreas, can be very painful – so painful, in fact that relief may … in patients’ quality of life. If the islet transplantation can prevent the onset of diabetes, that is an added bonus.” …
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What Is Interventional IBD ?
… need to be diagnosed and treated? If left untreated, what can that lead to? For ulcerative colitis, there is a window … , abscesses, and then dysplasia or cancer. If you don't have adequate control over the disease by medicine, that … a bike and there's a Mercedes. Mercedes are very fancy; reliable, but expensive. It's like surgery. Now, take the …
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Bots for Tots: The First Program in the U.S. for Robotic Liver Surgery in Children
… of these rare conditions. The only cases that we wouldn't offer a minimally invasive robotic approach would be if a … Those are a minority of cases; for the vast majority we can offer the robotic approach. What challenges did you face … four or five days. What specific questions should families ask their care team if their child needs liver surgery? Dr. …
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Pancreatic Cancer Support Group
… half of the meeting is open format, in which participants can share or discuss whatever they choose. Attendees may talk … any matters of concern with our social worker and may also ask the nurse practitioner medical questions. Perhaps most … every 3rd Tuesday of the month 4pm-6pm Call (212) 305-9467 for more information …
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