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Motherhood After Chemo: Current Approaches to Fertility Preservation
In the past, young women newly diagnosed with cancer typically received no fertility counseling or were assured they’d be fine if their periods resumed after treatment.Mitchell Rosen, MD, explains, it’s a more hopeful world for these patients, with better ways to predict the likelihood of ovarian failure or early menopause.
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How to Assign Malignancy Risk to Adnexal Masses Based on Imaging Features
Adoption of the Ovarian-Adnexal Reporting and Data System (O-RADS) by UCSF radiologists, gynecologists and gynecologic oncologists has reduced ambiguity in ultrasound (US) and MRI reporting of ovarian and adnexal lesions, with enormous potential to improve patient outcomes.
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Physician Referral Guide - Focused Ultrasound for Essential Tremor
Essential tremor is the most common movement disorder, affecting an estimated 10 million Americans. Using MR guidance, focused ultrasound can alleviate essential tremor by targeting the ventral intermediate nucleus (Vim) of the thalamus.
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When the Nose Doesn’t Know: Identifying Types of Smell Loss in the Time of COVID
In this guide to understanding the condition and counseling patients appropriately, rhinologist Jose Gurrola II, MD, covering types of smell loss, the impact on patients’ lives, when to order labs or imaging, expected recovery times for COVID patients, and therapies worth trying.
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The Value of Focused Ultrasound for Essential Tremor: Safety, Precision, Sustained Results
The most common movement disorder, essential tremor often doesn’t respond to meds and depresses quality of life. As neurosurgeon Doris Wang, MD, PhD, explains in this short, information-packed presentation, focused ultrasound can bring immediate and lasting relief to many.
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Bladder Cancer Home Test Reduced Need for Cystoscopy During COVID-19
A study led by UCSF urologic cancer surgeons Sima Porten, MD, MPH, and Maxwell Meng, MD, found that use of a home urine test during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased the frequency of surveillance cystoscopy for patients with a history of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).
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Lumbar Fusion: Strategies to Lower Complications and Optimize Corrections
Focusing particularly on the needs of obese patients, neurosurgeon Aaron Clark, MD, PhD, discusses anterior and lateral approaches to lumbar interbody fusion.
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Update on Brain Metastases: Navigating Treatment Decisions, Reducing Long-Term Harms
In three parts, UCSF neuro-oncology specialists present the latest on managing brain metastases.
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Pediatric Spondylolisthesis: Identifying Surgical Candidates and Selecting the Approach
In a talk with relevance for both adult and pediatric spinal care providers, orthopedic surgeon Sigurd Berven, MD, discusses complex decisions on whether and how to treat a child with high-grade spondylolisthesis.
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Using AI in Electrocardiogram Analysis Can Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a leading cause of sudden death in adolescents and initial detection is often difficult. A new UCSF study finds that Artificial Intelligence-enhanced (AI)-Electrocardiograms (ECG) may help identify the condition in its earliest stages and monitor important disease-related changes over time.
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Positive Patient Outcomes With Minimally Invasive Skull Base Surgery: UCSF Case Studies
The following case studies describe how Ezequiel (Eze) Goldschmidt, MD, PhD, and the UCSF Brain Tumor Center team used the EEA to successfully remove different types of tumors, including a pituitary adenoma, a craniopharyngioma, an epidermoid cyst and a chondrosarcoma.
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Navigation in Spinal Surgery: An Advantageous Tool of the Trade
Shane Burch, MD. Offering tips from his own experience in both complex and minimally invasive procedures, he explains navigation’s benefits – which include reducing radiation exposure, highlighting individual anatomy and supporting tasks such as screw placement – as well as how to avoid common user errors.
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Deep Brain Stimulation for Medication-Resistant Dystonia: A UCSF Case Study
A 10-year-old boy developed left-foot inversion, which made it difficult for him to walk. He subsequently developed a tremor in his right arm, and then his neck and trunk began to twist. He was seen by several practitioners but did not get a correct diagnosis. At age 17, he was referred to the UCSF Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center.
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Current Menopause Care: Understanding and Explaining a Patient’s Options
Gynecologist Mindy Goldman, MD, offers keys to individualizing care in menopause and beyond by looking at factors ranging from family history to having undergone hysterectomy.
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It’s Good to Hear Your Voice: Helping Patients With Vocal Fold Paralysis
Otolaryngologist VyVy N. Young, MD, provides tools for assessing the problem, explains when a workup is needed, and describes treatment options that can make a big difference to patients.
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Lung Cancer Screening: Who, How and When to Refer
†horacic radiologist Brett M. Elicker, MD, and thoracic surgeon Johannes Kratz, MD, present about current lung cancer screening guidelines: who, how, and when to refer.
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Immune Cells Leave Fingerprints on Tumors Metastasized to the Brain Offering Clues to Future Therapies
Using data from over 100,000 malignant and non-malignant cells from 15 human brain metastases, UCSF researchers have revealed two functional archetypes of metastatic cells across 7 different types of brain tumors, each containing both immune and non-immune cell types. Their findings, published the February 17 issue of CELL, provide a potential roadmap for metastatic tumor formation that could be used to design therapies to improve the treatment of metastasized patients.
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Pass the Smell Test: How to Assess Olfactory Loss Linked to COVID and Other Conditions
Otolaryngologist Patricia A. Loftus, MD, discusses what’s known about smell loss in COVID patients as well as its general prevalence in our aging population.
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Pancreatic Cancer Patient Exceeds Life Expectancy After Complex Whipple Procedure at UCSF
A team of UCSF surgeons devised a successful reconstruction approach during a complex Whipple procedure in a 69-year-old man with locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
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Breast Cancer Treatment Strategies: Experts Break Down the Latest
Reporting from the renowned San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, UCSF specialists present new research findings relevant to the complicated decisions made daily in designing treatment plans for individual patients.
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Will It Pass? Will It Recur? Get Current on Kidney Stone Management
Urologist Justin Ahn, MD, answers crucial questions on preventing and managing kidney stone disease – a condition affecting 10% of the U.S population, with young patients increasingly at risk.
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Treating Severe Depression with On-Demand Brain Stimulation
UCSF Health physicians have successfully treated a patient with severe depression by tapping into the specific brain circuit involved in depressive brain patterns and resetting them using the equivalent of a pacemaker for the brain.
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Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Tried-and-True Versus New Treatments
Justin Ahn, MD, covers evaluation essentials for patients with signs of BPH; what to know about various medical therapies, including side effects; and the bounty of today’s surgical options.
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Sorting Cancers by “Immune Archetypes” Represents Potential New Approach to Developing Precision Immunotherapies
Using data from over 300 patient tumors, UCSF researchers have described 12 classes of “immune archetypes” to classify cancer tumors. Their findings, published today in CELL, reveal that cancers from different parts of the body are immunologically similar to one another. These classifications provide unique strategies for enhancing each patient’s choice of cancer immunotherapies.
