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Fighting Peripheral Artery Disease One Step at a Time
… age 51, she worked up slowly from a brisk walk to jogging and started feeling pretty good. Then one day her calves … When the pain became severe, Jean went to a local hospital and was diagnosed with peripheral artery disease (PAD), a … Dr. Morrissey said. “Unfortunately that repair didn’t hold and she was in pain again. We put a stent in to open up the …
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Thyroid Cancer Causes
… of radiation exposure depend on the amount of radiation and the age at which a person is exposed: the higher the dose of radiation and the younger the age of exposure, the greater the risk of … radiation in routine medical tests like mammograms, x-rays and CT scans is low and not thought to significantly raise …
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Post-Transplant Recovery
… have expertise in monitoring patients recovering from lung and heart transplantation surgery. From there, lung … in this 32-bed unit bring years of specialized training and experience to provide the very specific care required by … specialist. You will begin your many (often between eight and ten) medications immediately following the surgery. Among …
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ECMO Helps Save the Life of a Young Man After a Football Injury
… game with friends. He broke his leg — both his tibia and fibula — and was rushed to the ER at Hudson Valley Hospital Center. On … 6th, he was visited by his orthopedist, Dr. Steven Small, and surgery to place a rod in his broken leg was scheduled …
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JJSS Welcomes Our 2020 Graduates
… Clinic, FL Benjamin Kuritzkes, MD Fellowship: Colon and Rectal Surgery Institution: University of Pennsylvania, … Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood, FL Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery Residency Program Graduate Adam … Los Angeles Philip Lofti, MD Private Practice: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery New York City Andrew L. Weinstein, …
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at NYP/Columbia
… is the most common genetic condition affecting the heart and is a leading cause of heart failure symptoms and sudden cardiac death in the young, although it can affect patients well into their 80s and 90s. In this disease, the heart muscle becomes abnormally …
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New Device for Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure
… in the world for patients with end-stage heart disease, and one of the first to allow those with end-stage heart … study reported in New England Journal of Medicine and presented at American Heart Association in November 2016, … is director of Columbia’s Cardiac Transplantation Program and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program. Columbia enrolled …
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Correcting Tetralogy of Fallot in a Single Operation
… in Los Angeles to relieve a blocked pulmonary artery and further operations will be needed to correct other heart … of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic & Vascular Surgery and Director of Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. “Today, we can do what was …
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GI/Oncology Surgery: Physicians' Newsletter, September 2017
… center of excellence in clinical care for Gastroenterology and GI Surgery by U.S. News and World Report . In this issue we feature our Center for Motility and Neurogastroenterology and our multidisciplinary team's …
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Director’s Welcome
… NYP/Columbia is a nationally recognized, high quality and innovative center with high surgical volume that utilizes advanced techniques and procedures. The Program began in 2010 when the first two … the General Surgery program with rotations in the cardiac and thoracic specialties, including cardiology interventional …
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Nurses’ Symposium
… attending physicians, our co-chief nurse practitioners, and our ECMO surgical fellow. Dr. Darryl Abrams began the … of ECMO support available at NYP/Columbia, indications and contraindications for ECMO, and a brief overview of historical ECMO trials. Paul Boerem …
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North American Thyroid Cancer Survivorship Study (NATCSS): A Multicenter Quality of Life Study
… has increased substantially in the past several decades and is estimated to become the 3rd most common cancer in women of all ages and the 2nd most common cancer in women under age of 45 by 2019. With 5-year and 10-year survival rates reaching 95%, a relatively younger …
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