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Fall 2010 (HTML | PDF)

Nipple-sparing Mastectomy: An advanced surgical technique allows women to maintain normal breast appearance while undergoing mastectomy to prevent or treat breast cancer.
Screening for Diabetic Foot Ulcers: NYPH to launch a comprehensive program to detect, prevent, and advance evidence-based treatment of diabetic foot ulcers.
ECMO for Pulmonary Failure: For adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome, innovations at the new Adult ECMO Program provide lifesaving options.
New Faculty: New Faculty appointments in 2010 and 2011 at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Department of Surgery.

Hybrid Heart Surgery: This issue of healthpoints discusses advances in heart surgery that have been made possible by new hybrid heart surgery procedures.
Pediatric Hybrid Heart Surgery: Hybrid procedures ease the burden for babies undergoing surgery for hypoplastic left heart syndrome and other conditions. Emile Bacha, MD, specializes in hybrid heart surgery in children.
Hybrid Aortic Arch Surgery: A new hybrid procedure combines open surgery with endovascular repair, significantly shortening the length of the procedure, reducing risk, and making for a shorter hospital stay and a more rapid recovery.
Renal 3000: The Circle for Life event at Columbia University Medical Center: celebrating a milestone in kidney transplantation.

Chronic Pancreatitis: With autologous islet cell transplantation, a diabetes-free future may be possible after total pancreatectomy.
Surgical Science Update: RAGE research, now in clinical trials, sheds light on the mystery of diabetes-related complications.

Adrenal Surgery: Selective venous sampling identifies patients whose hypertension may be surgically curable.
Cosmetic Surgery: Staging of 'age maintenance' procedures through adulthood provides superior results.
Pediatric Cancer: Laboratory research at Columbia yields new treatment options for some of the most difficult-to-treat tumors in children.

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