procedure – MD Update

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Bringing Pioneering Procedures to Kentucky

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Donna Ison abnormal liver test, advanced procedure, advanced therapeutic endoscopy, age 45, Alexandra Rogers Nathan Liu, bile, bile duct, bowel, camera visualization, camera visualization of lesion, cancer, colon, colon cancer, colonoscopies, colonoscopy, complex condition, complicated colon polyp, curative resection, duct, Emily Billingsly, endoscopic, endoscopic procedure, endoscopic submucosal dissection, endoscopic therapy, endoscopy, ERCP, ESD, esophagus, extensive higher-risk polyp, field of gastroenterology, full range of gastrointestinal cancer, gastroenterologist, gastroenterologist arsenal, gastroenterologists, gastroenterology, gastrointestinal cancer, GI, GI wall, high-risk procedure, higher-risk polyp, image001 photography, intermittent right upper quadrant pain, interventional gastroenterologist, invasive surgery, Kawasaki 's disease, late therapeutic agent, Liu, Louisville, medical movement, myotomy, Nathan Liu, natural GI wall, new tool, obesity, ongoing treatment, pancreatography, pediatric surgeon, Peter Draganov, pioneer procedure, polyp, pre-oral, pre-oral endoscopic myotomy, procedure, quadrant pain, quick diagnosis, remove stone, required open surgery, retrograde pancreatography, revolutionary endoscopic therapy, screen colonoscopies, single layer of the colon, small bowel, submucosal, submucosal fellowship, surgery, suture, third-space endoscopy, three year fellowship, university of Florida, UofL, UofL health

LOUISVILLE In the field of gastroenterology, innovations in endoscopy and minimally invasive surgery have led to much improved results and

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Heart Care Takes a Multidisciplinary Village

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 MD-Update Staff administrative time, appointment, artery monitor, assistant chief of medicine, baptist health, baptist health 's Louisville heart failure, baptist heart failure clinic, battery, battery technology, big disease, blood clot, cardiologist, cardiology, CardioMEMS, cardiothoracic, cardiovascular disease fellowship, care of patient, catheterization, clinic, clinical trial, clot, COVID, CRT-P, disease fellowship, echocardiograms, ER, ER visit, excite option, FACC, failure, flare state, heart disease, heart failure, heart failure clinic, heart failure program, heart failure trial, heart transplant, Heatherly, HF, HF clinic, HF patient, Honor 's college, Honor 's college of western Carolina university, hypertension, hypertension clinic, implantable pulmonary artery monitor, inpatient hospital stay, J., Kentucky, life look, Louisville, Louisville heart failure, Louisville Steven, Louisville Steven J., lung, LVAD, LVADs, MD-UPDATE, MD-Update Q, MDU, MDU Kentucky, medical director, medical school, medication, misconception, monitor, multidisciplinary village, need defibrillator, new PAH clinic, new treatment plan, out-patient, out-patient arena, PAH, PAH clinic, PAH patient, patient population, PH, PH clinic, PhD, physician, principal investigator, procedure, professional life look, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary hypertension clinic, randomized clinical heart failure trial, religion major, remote patient monitor, research meet, solid schedule, special pacemaker, specialized area, STEP-HFpEF, Steven Heatherly, surgery, surgical procedure, Uber, valve, varied background, wake forest, WiFi scale

LOUISVILLE Steven J. Heatherly, MD, PhD, FACC, is the system medical director for heart failure and pulmonary hypertension for Baptist

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Knowledge Is Power

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Jim Kelsey Ain sham university, artery, Baylor, blockage, blocked artery, cardiac catheterization, cardiologist, cardiology, cardiology fellowship, cardiovascular doctor, cath lab, catheterization, chest, chest pain, chief medical resident, clinic, clinical investigation science, duPont manual high school, El-Refai, environment reward, graduate of duPont manual high school, healthcare decision, heart attack, heart disease, image001 photo, internal medicine train, interventional cardiologist, interventional cardiology fellowship, investigation science, Louisville, Louisville school, medical train, medicine train, Mostafa Osman El-Refai, need procedure, nice perspective, Non-Invasive, non-invasive thing, Norton, Norton Healthcare, Norton Healthcare Mostafa Osman El-Refai, Norton heart, outpatient, outpatient clinic set, overall physician-patient, pain, physician, private suburban hospital, procedure, stable set, Texas heart institute, university of Louisville school of public health, VA, vascular institute, wide variety of clinical experience, young patient

LOUISVILLE To borrow from Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility. Another way to say that is, just because you

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Stroke of Genius

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Jim Kelsey address sleep apnea, amulet, amulet procedure, anticoagulation, appendage, artery, atrial fibrillation, atrium, attractive field, bedside evaluation, bedside evaluation of the patient, big philosophical growth, cardiac rhythm problem, cardiologist, cardiology, cardiovascular care, chi saint, chronic health condition, clot, clot formation, common patient presentation, complicated patient, consequence of hypertension, course of care, data-driven, data-driven decision help, data-driven decision make, director of the structural heart program, Falluji, fibrillation, good understand of the patient, heart 's left atrial appendage, heart program, image001 photo, image002 photo, intervention, interventional cardiologist, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph hospital, left atrial appendage, left atrium, less-scientific, less-scientific information, majority of the condition, Mark Mahan Erin Caldwell, Mark Mahan Nezar Falluji, medicine, MitraClip, Nezar Falluji, non-surgical option, normal contraction, one-half of the arrhythmia, paternal approach, perception, peripheral vascular artery, photo, procedural medicine, procedure, reward realization, rhythm problem, rigid guideline, risk of stroke, source of less-scientific information, stroke, stroke of genius, structural cardiovascular care, structural heart program, TAVR, use of non-invasive test, valvular abnormality, watchman, WATCHMAN™ coordinator

LEXINGTON Trusting the science comes naturally to Nezar Falluji, MD, MPH. As an interventional cardiologist at CHI Saint Joseph Health

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Informed Consent: Not a Mere Formality

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Stephanie M. Wurdock 7th-to, 7th-to 8th-grade level, appropriate person, category of risk, condition impact cognition, consent, consent claim, consent discussion, consent process, consent statute, conversation, designated Healthcare power, designated Healthcare power of attorney, discussion, documentation, follow-up discussion, healthcare, healthcare malpractice claim, healthcare power, important aspect of patient care, important component of care, informed consent, informed consent claim, informed consent discussion, Kentucky, Kentucky 's informed consent statute, Kentucky 's patient population, KRS 304.40-320, lack of informed consent, litigation exposure, malpractice, means provider must, means provider must avoid use complex medical terminology, mere formality, necessary medical care, non-medical person, outcome, patient 's ability, patient factor, patient representative, patient return, procedure, provider, provider guideline, reasonable alternative, reasonable individual, risk of the procedure, significant complication of a procedure, specific risk, term patient, treatment 's success, valid informed consent

Most healthcare malpractice claims allege a failure to properly diagnose or treat a medical condition, which is what most providers

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The Evolution of Gynecological Cancer Care

October 1, 2021December 10, 2021 MD-Update Staff ablation, abnormal bleed, Alexandra Rogers Margarita Terrassa, all-female practice, American cultural mainstream, bladder, bleed, board-certified, Botox, breast, breast cancer, cancer, CDC, cervical cancer, cervical cancer awareness, comprehensive care, Denise Kirkham, diagnosis, educational act, endometrial, endometrial ablation, evolution of gynecological cancer, female cancer, Gil Dunn, gynecological care, gynecology, happy Rockefeller, HPV, HPV vaccine, hysteroscopy, image001 photo, image002 photo, in-house, in-office, in-office service, in-office surgery, in-office surgery suite, incontinence, Jamie Baldwin, Kim Aldridge, l-r, large surgery suite, Louisville, Louisville obstetrics, majority of doctor, mammogram screen, Margarita Terrassa, new sign of the time, OB-GYN generalist, OB-GYN practice, OB/ GYN, obstetrics, ovulation, pain, pap, pap smear, patient demand, Patient-Oriented, pelvic pain, phase of comprehensive care, physician, ponce, ponce school, ponce school of medicine, procedure, procedure suite, recognizable symbol promote mammogram screen, smear, Specialty-Focused, state-of-the-art equipment, suite, surgeon, surgery, surgical procedure, surgical solution, surgical suite, teal-colored, teal-colored ribbon, Terrassa, tissue, treatment of abnormal pap smear, Tulane university hospital, ultrasound, unique female perspective, urinary incontinence, uterus, vaccination, vaccine, wait room of the calm, well-known woman, woman enter medical school, woman provider

LOUISVILLE The years 1971-1972 were pivotal for cancer treatment for women in the U.S. Three prominent, well-known women, Betty Ford,

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News – Aug 2021

August 1, 2021October 18, 2021 MD-Update Staff $, $10.6 million partnership, 10.6, accreditation, American college, Aslam, Bahasa Indonesia, baptist health, baptist health team, Bardstown, Behnke, board-certified, cancer, cancer program, cardiology, Care, Care center, Care clinic, central Kentucky, chi, chi saint, chief executive officer, Cleveland, clinic, CoC, De La Cruz, Dimeling, Elizabeth, Elizabeth hospital, emergency, emergency room, ER, Flaget, Flaget memorial, Floyd, formal groundbreaking, freestanding ER, good care, group practice, gynecology, heart procedure, hospice, hospice center, hybrid emergency room, image001 image, innovation, intensive program, internal medicine, intuitive health, invasive heart procedure, J., Jefferson ridge development, JEFFERSONVILLE, Jewish hospital, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph medical group, Kentucky, large group practice, Lexington, Lexington clinic, Louisville, Mary, MBA, medical degree, medical school, medicine, MedOne, MedOne hospital physician, Neltner, News, NSLI-Y, obstetrics, Ohio, onsite, patient care, photo, physician, primary care, procedure, provider, residency, Southern Indiana, Stephen J., stroke, stroke center, surgeon, surgery, TAVR, thoracic surgeon, thoracic surgery, transcatheter, undergraduate education, underserved, university of Virginia, UofL, UofL health, urgent care, urgent care clinic, Vasdev Lohano, year of experience

Baptist Health Teams Up with Intuitive Health, Breaks Ground on Southern Indiana’s First Freestanding ER and Urgent Care JEFFERSONVILLE, IN

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“It’s Just Scar Tissue, No Big Deal” Wrong!

August 1, 2021September 9, 2021 Tim Corkran achy jointed weekend warrior, active senior, big deal, bursitis, central Kentucky healthcare ecosystem, comfortable movement, connective tissue, Danesh Mazloomdoost, Dr. Danesh, effect of relieve constriction, elbow, fluid vibration, focused physical therapy, four-to-six, four-to-six week, Gil Dunn, Gil Dunn prior, high-pressure, hip, image001 photo, inter-fiber, inter-fiber scare, invasive procedure, joint pain, Kentucky healthcare ecosystem, length of the tendon, Mazloomdoost, micro-scar, micro-scar tissue, non-arthritic, outpatient, outpatient procedure, pain, patient year, patient year of comfortable movement, percutaneous tenotomy, physical therapist, physical therapy, procedure, reduce tendinitis, regenerative medicine specialist, regenerative treatment, relieve constriction, scar, scar tissue, shoulder, single-treatment, small area of tendon fiber, source of persistent pain, sufficient relief, surgery center, tendon, tendon debridement, tendon fiber, Tenjet, tenotomy, therapist, therapy, tissue, traumatized tendon, treatable area, treatable area of a tendon, ultrasound, use of percutaneous tenotomy, weekend warrior, Wellward, Wellward 's service, Wellward regenerative medicine

LEXINGTON The achy jointed weekend warriors and active seniors of our modern culture often need more than physical therapists and

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Today’s VBAC Options Make ‘Once a C-section, Always a C-section’ Old News

June 1, 2021September 9, 2021 Menisa Marshall ACOG, Ann Grider, approved VBAC candidate, attempted VBAC, baby, birth plan, c-section, c-section delivery, candidate 's delivery, care nursery, cesarean, cesarean birth, cesarean history, cesarean section, childbirth-related, childbirth-related complication, common operate room procedure, comparable risk, complication, critical element of a successful VBAC delivery, delivery, emergency c-section, Grider, labor, laborists, legal factor, long-time assumption, Louisville, low rate, low risk, low-risk woman, maximize safety, mom, mom 's overall health, multiple c-section, national success rate, neonatal intensive care nursery, neonatal staff, OB/ GYN, online risk calculator, patient 's plan, personal birth plan, personal worry, personalized birth, personalized birth plan, physician, plan 's component, potential VBAC risk, procedure, reasonable option, repeat, repeat c-section, risk factor, room procedure, scar-related, scar-related risk factor, significant VBAC risk factor, success rate, successful VBAC, successful VBAC delivery, trial of labor, vaginal birth, VBAC, VBAC candidate, VBAC delivery, VBAC risk, VBAC risk factor, VBAC success rate

LOUISVILLE When Ann Grider, MD, joined Women First of Louisville in 1998, the pendulum had gone from the long-time assumption

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The Patient-Centered Surgeon

April 1, 2021June 16, 2021 Tim Corkran achalasia, anti-reflux, anti-reflux procedure, associate professor of surgery, associate program director, combination of technical practice, creation of a swallow, daVinci, daVinci robot, duty of associate program director of the residency program, ENT collaborator, esophageal disease, esophageal procedure, esophageal surgical procedure, esophagus, Farid Kehdy, good solution, hernia, hiatal, hiatal hernia, image001 photo, Kehdy, Kehdy 's successful approach, Louisville UofL, Louisville UofL health surgeon, medical treatment, native of Lebanon, paraesophageal, patient population, patient recovery, Patient-Centered surgeon, PPIs, practice cardiologist, procedure, reflux, reflux center, reflux issue, surgeon, surgery, surgical management, surgical management of esophageal disease, surgical management of reflux, technical practice, UofL, UofL health, UofL health surgeon

LOUISVILLE UofL Health surgeon Farid Kehdy, MD, brings an approach to surgical management of esophageal diseases that makes his patients

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