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Attain Your Personal Best Ask-the-Surgeon Webinar — Robert T. Grant, MD, Plastic Surgery (Part III)
… out there, it's hard to separate advertising ploys from their real results. Dr. Robert T. Grant, the highly …
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healthpoints Fall 2012
… CONTENTS Greetings : Message from the chairman Transplant Immunology: Advances in …
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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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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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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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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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Liver Connection Spring/Summer 2012
… Reflecting on My Ten Years as a Liver Transplant Recipient From the OR, Dr. Samstein — Hernias and Long Term Transplant …
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One in Ten Lung Transplants Go to Covid-19 Patients: Here’s What We Know
… due to COVID-19 in the United States. According to data from the United Network for Organ Transplants (UNOS), in the … of the transplants in the US have been for COVID-19. To go from not existing to becoming nearly 10 percent of the … How does a lung transplant operation for COVID-19 differ from lung transplants indicated for other causes? We have our …
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About the Heart
… the left side of the heart receives oxygen-rich blood from the lungs and delivers it to the rest of the body; the right side of the heart receives oxygen-depleted blood from the body and delivers it to the lungs. The left and … during the heart’s pumping cycle to allow blood to flow from each chamber to the next. When the valves function …
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Liver Connection Spring 2010
… CONTENTS Transplant News Marathon Tales — From 10 Minutes to 335.29 Minutes Silvia's Corner — Silvia …
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery: Physicians' Newsletter, Fall 2018
… Message from the Chief Columbia Heart Team Leads Nation—Performing 75 …
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Platinum Center of Excellence Celebration
… institutions in the world to receive the Platinum Award from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO). Our …
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Roy Oommen, MD
… Dr. Oommen comes to NYP from Boston, where he served as a thoracic surgery attending …
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Patient Stories
… a wily and unpredictable disease that behaves differently from any other liver cancer. It’s ultra-rare, with only 200 … for a Chance to Live Haydee Yanesa came to NYP/Columbia from the Philippines after suffering for many years with … Jentai Tsai is no stranger to hard work. Coming to the US from Taiwan in the 1970s, he worked countless hours founding …
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