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Resection of Pineocytomas Offers Symptom Relief
Sunil J. Patel, M.D., chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at MUSC, is one of a handful of surgeons in the world who resects symptomatic pineal cysts.
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MUSC Health orthopaedic surgeon Josef K. Eichinger, M.D., discusses the case of a 13-year-old baseball player with left elbow pain who was successfully treated with elbow arthroscopy.
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New Rule-Out Test for Lung Cancer Increases Diagnostic Precision
Gerard A. Silvestri, M.D., a lung cancer pulmonologist at MUSC, led a study that shows that a new biomarker is 98 percent effective at distinguishing benign from malignant lung nodules.
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Reanimating the Paralyzed Face
Samuel L. Oyer, M.D., discusses a technique used in facial reanimation surgery — masseter-to-facial nerve transfer — that can restore a patient’s ability to smile.
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Instagrams of the Immune System - Predict Responses to Immunotherapy
Carsten Krieg, Ph.D.,discusses how “Instagrams of the immune system,” captured by a new technology, made it possible to identify biomarkers of response to immunotherapy in patients with melanoma.
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Edward C. Jauch, M.D., interim chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, discusses what’s new in this update regarding thrombolytic therapy, endovascular surgery, in-hospital care, credentialing and more.
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Optimizing Care for Children with Vascular Anomalies
Lara Wine Lee, M.D, discusses types of vascular anomalies in children, their medical and/or surgical management, the goals of therapy and the multidisciplinary approach taken to their treatment at MUSC Children’s Health.
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Preliminary Results of a Head-to-Head Trial of Stent Retrievers vs. the Direct-Aspiration, First-Pass Technique (ADAPT)
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Improving Quality of Life for Patients with Movement Disorders Through Deep Brain Stimulation
MUSC Health neurosurgeon Istvan Takacs, M.D., describes how deep brain stimulation (DBS) works, the advantages of performing it awake and how it can dramatically affect the quality of life of patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.
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TELL-TALE BLOOD Liquid Biopsy offers a Useful Diagnostic Companion for Targeted Therapies
Conventional biopsies are invasive, costly, and sometimes impossible to conduct, but they yield valuable information other methods were unable to provide—until now.
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Testing Stem Cells as Possible Treatment for Heart Failure
Stem cells are being tested at the Medical University of South Carolina as a possible treatment for heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF.
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Genomics screening can improve the odds for some cancer patients, potentially identifying mutations associated with cancer subtypes for which targeted therapies exist or are in development.
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