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Raising Awareness and Building Community Around Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
… cancer, connecting with one another has immense value, from sharing personal stories to raising awareness about the … for patients. Don’t miss an update on news and content from Healthpoints, the blog from the Department of Surgery at Columbia …
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About Our Health Guide Team
… need in a clear and accessible manner. We don’t shy away from sharing all the details, we just try to present them in … center websites share guides that they’ve purchased from existing health libraries. At Columbia, we leverage our … everyone, but with enough high-quality options to choose from, there should be something for anyone. Second, by …
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Frankenstein and the Electricity of the Heart
… own electrical organ. Each beat begins with a spark; not from the heavens, but from the sinoatrial (SA) node, a cluster of cells in the … across the heart in a perfectly orchestrated sequence. →From SA node to atria The atria contract, pushing blood into …
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History of Medicine: Beautiful Exploitation
… horrifying stories of cancer diagnoses, fingerprints lost from repeated handling of corrosive chemicals, women with … was that it’s amazing how many people are put at risk from various kinds of chemicals and how it took this kind of … are exposed to all sorts of dangers. We somehow just block from our consciousness the horrors these kinds of exposures …
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Immunosuppression and Organ Rejection
… your health. It recognizes and attacks anything different from the substances normally present in your body, even those …
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Endocarditis
… the surrounding debris, known as an embolus, can break off from the heart valve and travel through the bloodstream to …
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Pediatric Surgery Fellowship
… surrounding the main Columbia Campus. Our properties span from West 164th Street to West 170th Street and are located …
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Frontline Humanity in Lampedusa: How Migration Shapes the Island’s Medical Mission
… arrive each year seeking safety. Positioned just 70 miles from Tunisia and about 180 miles from the Libyan coast, Lampedusa has become a natural—albeit … especially since they’re dealing with critical situations, from severe burns to complicated pregnancies. What specific …
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Amanda L. Cantor, MD
… specializing in pediatric liver diseases. She graduated from Sackler School of Medicine in 2016 and went on to … Residency at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore from 2016-2019. She pursued a fellowship at Columbia-MSCHONY from 2019-2022, specializing in Pediatric Gastroenterology. …
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K-Pouch Surgery: Continent ileostomy preserves continence and quality of life
… K-pouch surgery entails the creation of an internal pouch from a section of the small intestine. The pouch is … which prevents the escape of liquid waste and gas from the pouch. Waste thus collects in the pouch, remaining … a bag is so important to their quality of life. Freedom from an external appliance allows patients to wear better …
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Aiwu Ruth He, MD, PhD: Bridging the Lab and the Clinic to Transform Liver Cancer Care
… to improve outcomes for patients with liver cancer . From bench to bedside, and back again Can you tell us a bit … what led you to focus on liver cancer? After graduation from medical school in China, I came to the United States to … Pharma and innovative, hypothesis-driven trials emerging from the Columbia University laboratory discoveries. From a …
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Overcoming Fear Before Open Heart Surgery
… the valve narrows, preventing the proper flow of blood from the heart to the aorta and throughout the body, his … For example, several of the videos concerned awaking from surgery still intubated. Already fearful of this the … he thought he had found his solution — his escape from the bigger, more involved surgery. The consensus, …
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A Primer on Parathyroid Surgery in 2024
… This conversation has been adapted from a comprehensive interview on thyroid, parathyroid, and … become very enlarged. The parathyroid hormone levels go up from a normal range of 70 to in the thousands. And a good percentage of those patients would benefit from an operation. But again, a lot of them never actually …
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State of the Union: Pediatric Heart Surgery
… to take on the cases others cannot, and where innovation, from partial heart transplantation to 3D modeling and … cardiac surgery stands today, what feels most different from when you began? Pediatric cardiac surgery is inherently … in 1998, almost 30 years ago, and the change hasn’t come from one single breakthrough. It’s been many small advances …
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Care Within Reach
… set the standard for patient-focused treatment. Patients from all over the world come to us for the very best care—and … diagnosis, care, and recovery can require support from many different specialties. As part of Columbia … to help critically ill patients who have been turned away from other centers. From high-risk cardiac patients to …
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