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GI/Oncology Surgery: Physicians' Newsletter, April 2016
… CONTENTS Message from the Chair Role of BRCA in Pancreatic Cancer Minimally …
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Breast Cancer: Second Chances & New Advances
… our experts discuss the latest breakthroughs and more, from ABC TV’s primetime Breast Cancer Special. …
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Weight Loss Surgery Newsletter April 2016
… Message from the Director Patients Finding Success with Gastric …
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What We’re Reading: 07/10/20
… some of the confusion about testing in the media. ( From nytimes.com ) America Is Refusing to Learn How to Fight … brink in our city. Lessons we didn’t learn quickly enough from the experiences in China, Italy, Spain. Yet, ICUs are … Why does it appear our nation has already given up? ( From nymag.com ) On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On …
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Learn About Our Clinical Trials
… care. Open Clinical Trials at RecruitMe Additional Trials From Our Team What Are They | How Do They Work? | … is translational research, which builds off the findings from basic research and determines which interventions are … a successful method for preventing a disease or condition from developing. Diagnosis : Measuring the effectiveness of …
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Aortic Repair & Replacement
… valve to be sewn in place. Biological valves can be made from pig tissue (porcine), cow tissue pericardial (bovine), or pericardial tissue from other species. These valves allow patients to avoid … is an aortic or pulmonic valve that has been removed from a donated human heart, preserved, treated with …
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How Our Pediatric Heart Surgeons Decide Between Aortic Valve Repair Techniques in Complex Cases
… properties. The native aortic valve leaflet—taken from the pulmonary valve—used in a Ross procedure grows with … templates (standardization) with a tissue substitute taken from the patient’s own pericardium or bovine pericardium. … shorter, less extensive operation that doesn’t preclude us from doing a Ross down the road or using a mechanical valve.” …
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Am I a Candidate for Weight Loss Surgery?
… a shortened life span. There is also added potential risk from continued weight increase. The risk of severe obesity is …
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Heart Transplantation
… is the surgical placement of a healthy heart from a human donor into the body of a person whose own heart … reserved for those individuals with a high risk of dying from heart disease within one or two years. Most patients who … transplant candidates must be under age 65 and suffering from end-stage heart disease, but be in relatively good …
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Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) may be one of the most common health problems you’ve never heard of
… and care is very important because it could save you from having a heart attack or stroke. There can be … important thing a person can do to reduce complications from vascular disease is to quit smoking. For patients with … the narrowed vessel and the surgeon removes the plaque from the inside of the artery. Endovascular procedures treat …
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A Phase II Study of Chemotherapy and Immune Checkpoint Blockade With Pembrolizumab in the Perioperative and Maintenance Treatment of Locoregional Gastric or GE Junction Adenocarcinoma
… and serum samples (pre-treatment and post-treatment) from individually treated patients to explore the immune …
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healthpoints Summer 2012
… Endocrine Surgery : Answers after Fukushima from world-renowned expert Robert McConnell, MD. …
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ECMO Patient Story - Nichele Calhoun
… how Nichele's life was saved by ECMO. Nichele suffered from pulmonary hypertension. Her body began to fail and ECMO …
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After K-Pouch Surgery, Sara’s Enjoying her 20s
… Sara’s early 20s were marked with constant issues stemming from ulcerative colitis. After meeting colorectal surgeon and …
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B. Payne Stanifer, MD, MPH, Joins the Department of Surgery
… at Dartmouth, he obtained a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard with a focus on management and health policy. … was a Carson Family Scholar. He graduated medical school from the James H. Quillen College of Medicine at East …
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