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Improving Pediatric Drug Development
Andrew M. Atz, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina, outlines the problem about the efficacy and safety of drugs in children.
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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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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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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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Satish N. Nadig, M.D., Ph.D., discusses the advantages of a new kind of kidney chain one in which all participants – from the altruistic donor to the final (often pediatric) recipient — are MUSC patients.
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Left Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
In this minimally invasive operation, the kidney is removed through the umbilicus. Because there is less surgical trauma, donors often go home one day after surgery.
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Case Study: Surgical Correction of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
MUSC Children’s Health pediatric orthopaedic surgeon Robert F. Murphy, M.D., performs surgery to correct scoliosis in the small subset of patients who have a large curve that does not respond to bracing
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Optimizing Treatment for Scoliosis
MUSC Children’s Health pediatric orthopaedic surgeon Robert F. Murphy, M.D., discusses treatment options for patients with scoliosis, from bracing to surgery, and when each is indicated.
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Diagnostic and Therapeutic Uses of Balloon-Assisted Enteroscopy in Children
J. Antonio Quiros, M.D.,discusses the advantages of balloon-assisted enteroscopy, a form of deep enteroscopy that enables the physician to explore much further into the small intestine than would be possible with traditional endoscopy.
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Changing Young Lives (School-Based Telehealth)
Disrupting that cycle by empowering school nurses is the mission of the MUSC Center for Telehealth’s school-based telehealth program.
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A Knockout Punch for Pediatric Brain Tumors? Targeting DIPG with Nanotechnology
Despite decades of clinical trials to find effective therapies the prognosis for children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a pediatric brain tumor, remains grim.
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Buying Time: Unique Laser Treatment on a Child Slows her Aggressive Tumor
It was located near the basal ganglia and the thalamus, areas deep within the brain that are hard to reach and packed with the neurons that control critical functions, such as movement, sensory relay, temperature regulation, and slee/wake cycles.
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The Gift of Growth: High-Tech Extendible Implant Enables Femur to Grow Despite Limb Salvage Surgery
Osteosarcoma (bone cancer) in children is rare. Approximately 400 cases are diagnosed in the U.S. every year according to the American Cancer Society.
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Pioneering New Therapies for Pediatric Patients
A phase 1 clinical trial of a treatment for severe sickle cell disease (SCD) using gene therapy opened at MUSC in 2015.
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Coming out of the Shadows: Identifying Eating Disorders in Primary Care
As many as 13 percent of adolescents live in the shadow of an eating disorder (ED), almost three precent of whom have a severe ED.
From promoting healthy lifestyles to offering life-saving treatments, MUSC Children’s Health delivers comprehensive and compassionate care to children throughout South Carolina and beyond. Our integrated health care system consists of a 186-bed pediatric hospital providing the most advanced care possible in more than 26 specialty areas as well as multiple neighborhood locations throughout coastal South Carolina offering primary, urgent and specialty care. As a Level 1 Trauma center, our pediatric emergency department specializes in providing emergency care for any serious injury or illness. In addition to the clinical care MUSC Children’s Health provides, we are a major pediatric clinical research center conducting significant and ongoing research efforts through the Charles P. Darby Research Institute. This involvement allows us to enhance our ability to provide the highest level of care to children by translating laboratory advances to the bedside, developing new technologies and providing clinical trials.
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