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Electrophysiology
… hospital. If you are scheduled to come into the hospital from home the morning of your test, ask your doctor if you …
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Heart Transplantation For HIV Positive Patients
… traditional practice, which excluded HIV positive patients from receiving transplants due to concerns about the …
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Putting the Experience of Hypothyroidism into Words
… Excerpts from Lydia Davis’s New Yorker story “Thyroid Diary” “ Thyroid …
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Webinar – 2020 Annual Research Symposium
… and Improved Survival with ECMO: Single Institution Study from High-Volume Referral Center – Alexey Abramov, PhD …
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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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Pediatric Update: Hope for Children with Lymphatic Malformations
… some are even bed-bound due to pain and constant drainage from their skin. Difficult to identify Moreover, many suffer … and Gynecology, it was discovered that cells they isolated from LMs were sensitive to a common blood pressure medication … safe doses, and perhaps even to know who will benefit most from it. Drs. Wu and Shawber are doing a fantastic job of …
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A Fun Time Was Had By All In The City By The Bay!
… stronger than ever! Nearly 70 attended with representation from Graduation classes as far back as the 1950s and every … Keung (first John Jones Fellow), and Alodia Gabre-Kidan from the residency program, and several P&S students keenly … discussions among old and new acquaintances. Topics ranged from the usual professional and familial developments to …
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What We’re Reading: 11/17/23
… A couple of highlights from around the web that made it into our feeds this week. … the question, where do priorities lie and for whom? ( From theatlantic.com ) How digital twins may enable … your heart to craft treatment plans, it’s already here! ( From theguardian.com ) Doctors are among the many dead in …
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