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Weight Loss Surgery Newsletter December 2018
… Letter from the Director Weight Loss Surgery: Getting Help with …
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery: Physicians' Newsletter, Winter 2017
… Message from the Chair Columbia Introduces New LVAD Technology …
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Danielle R. Bajakian, MD
… Dr. Bajakian comes to Columbia from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, where she …
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Jennifer H Haythe, MD
… Dr. Haythe graduated from Harvard University in 1995. She completed her medical …
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Surgical Instrumentation
… visibility needed to capture a desired location head-on, from above, or from behind. EROS and GERD Endoscopic Surgery The …
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Angioplasty
… show that women are not as likely as men to benefit from the operation; they also have a higher mortality rate from the procedure. Some studies have put the success rate at …
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Bradycardia
… type of bradycardia in which the electrical signals from the atria (top chambers of the heart) to the ventricle … in your symptoms People who experience serious symptoms from arrhythmias will need medical treatment to keep their …
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Joshua R. Sonett, MD
… donor shortage by evaluating lungs that may be rejected from other centers (CS News 2005). Between 2001 and 2003, 53 … Transplant, among many others. Dr. Sonett received his MD from Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University …
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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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Welcome to the Columbia Melanoma Center
… access to a multidisciplinary team, our patients benefit from a coordinated approach to treating, managing, and … are skilled and experienced in a range of procedures, from standard mole removals to more complex resections and … can do to treat melanoma, help you recover, and prevent it from recurring. Scans and Screenings Your comprehensive care …
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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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At-Home Thyroid Testing Kits: What We Know...and What We Don’t. An Interview with Dr. Hyesoo Lowe
… are working, socializing, and even visiting their doctors from home. As people become more and more comfortable with … not standardized. Currently, there is insufficient data from large studies to confirm how well home tests correlate … manageable. If a patient came to see you with results from an at-home kit, would you trust it or repeat testing? …
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What We’re Reading: 09/04/20
… A few highlights from around the web that made it into our feeds this week. We … but also that our healthcare system is dysfunctional." ( From newyorker.com ) Jacob Blake's police shooting highlights … trauma may have long-lasting effects. A critical read. ( From nbcnews.com ) Coronavirus reinfections: three questions …
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