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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery: Physicians' Newsletter, Spring 2018
… Message from the Chief Early Referral Critical for Heart Failure …
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Weight Loss Surgery Newsletter June 2018
… Letter from the Director Bariatric Surgery Reduces Risk of Cancer, …
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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital campuses collaborate to use ECMO, saving patient’s life
… who underwent ECMO treatment at NYP/Columbia and recovered from a severe case of what was believed to be pneumonia. … …
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Spencer Eugene Amory, MD
… Dr. Amory received his medical training from Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities. He developed …
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History of Medicine: Whipple's Improvised Breakthrough
… visitors. He would be removing a portion of the stomach from a patient with gastric cancer--a procedure Dr. Whipple … the best treatment option available for many suffering from this deadly disease. Today, most call a …
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“The Gross Clinic” by Thomas Eakins
… twentieth president of the American Medical Association from 1868-69, and published many surgical texts throughout … at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a few blocks away from where it was originally painted. Learn more about “The …
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Research at the Columbia University Department of Surgery
… of Columbia. So that our patients can continue to benefit from the best medical practices available, we conduct basic, … at optimizing translation of advances in basic immunology from the laboratory to the clinic, understanding …
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When Food Is Not An Option: The Basics of Small Bowel Transplant (Intestinal Transplant)
… While some patients do well on TPN, others suffer from complications, including: episodes of severe infection … intestinal failure with TPN dependence and complications from TPN. A small bowel transplant is the only long-term …
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Aeroform: A Newer, Faster Method of Breast Reconstruction
… yet there are built-in safety feature that prevents them from over-inflating. Once fully expanded, the device is … Fernandez, a high school chemistry teacher, who benefitted from the Aeroform, tells her story on Fox News. …
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Lung Transplant Surgery
… must be transplanted within six hours after being removed from the donor. As soon as the new lung(s) arrives in the … allow the lungs to fully re-expand. The surgery can take from four to eight hours, depending on whether it is a single …
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Ruth Leff Siegel Award Winners
… Hutchinson Cancer Center. Dr. Kugel received her B.Sc. from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and her … started his professional career in Japan. He earned his MD from Shiga University of Medical Science, trained in surgery … and received his PhD in cancer biology and immunology from the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. He …
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Ways to Help
… combat the injury that the organ sustains while in transit from the donor to the recipient, as well as testing novel … has enormous capacity for regeneration, so liver grafts from healthy, living donors can be effectively and … us to study new models of organ treatments, analyze data from people who have previously donated, study new ways to …
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The Four Steps to Your Successful Transplantation
… in the country. In the New York region, most patients wait from 10 to 14 months for their replacement organ(s) to become … you plan your transportation well in advance of this call. From the moment you arrive at Columbia, you are under the … recovery and guard against infection and organ rejection. From there, you begin the life-long process of returning to …
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Stories of Hope: David Mankuta
… at Columbia). We contacted Dr. Chabot’s office and flew from Florida to NY five days later for more evaluation. The … than it is on the patient. Many hours later, still fogged from anesthesia, I was told surgery was a success. Dr. Erik … Our confidence in my surgeon and the facility kept us from panicking as we moved towards surgery. And Dr. Chabot’s …
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