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Chronic Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis: Part 1
Jeannette Lager, MD, describes the complex etiology of chronic pelvic pain, including its visceral, musculoskeletal and neuropathic causes, and presents a systemic approach to the assessment of a chronic pelvic pain patient.
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Chronic Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis: Part 2
Jeannette Lager, MD, describes a directed pelvic examination for chronic pelvic pain, including a general pelvic exam, Q-Tip test for vulvodynia, abdominal exam (including testing for Carnett’s Sign), an exam of the pelvic floor muscles and an assessment of myofascial trigger points.
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Chronic Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis: Part 3
Jeannette Lager, MD, details endometriosis treatment options including expectant management, hormonal medical treatments, hormonal modulating medications, pain management, integrative regimens and surgery. She also explains the importance of a multidisciplinary program to address this multifactorial condition.
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Trigeminal Neuralgia Symptoms and Treatment Options
Edward Chang, MD, describes the symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia, a very serious pain disorder that affects the face and is usually caused by a blood vessel that compresses against the trigeminal nerve.
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Cervical and Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformity Treatment Strategies, Part I: Historic Review
Lee A. Tan, MD, provides a review of past and current treatment strategies for spinal deformities, including breakthroughs such as Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring.
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Cervical and Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformity Treatment Strategies, Part II: Radiographic Parameters
Dr. Lee Tan reviews cervical deformity radiographic parameters, including cervical lordosis, C2-7 sagittal vertical axis, chin-brow vertical angle, T1 slope, thoracic inlet angle and neck tilt.
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Cervical and Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformity Treatment Strategies, Part III: Case Examples
Lee Tan, MD discusses three recent cervical spine and thoracolumbar spinal deformity cases and the surgical interventions used to treat these diverse conditions.
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Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgery
UCSF Health offers a robotic thoracic surgery program specializing in treating thoracic disease.
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Minimally Invasive Skull Base Surgery Center
The role of minimally invasive skull base surgery is expanding in the management and treatment of benign and malignant tumors of the paranasal sinuses, skull base and intracranial compartment.
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Neurology and Neurological Surgery Services
Our internationally renowned centers, clinics and programs deliver compassionate clinical care while accelerating advances in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of complex disorders of the brain, spine and peripheral nervous system.
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Breast MRI and Advanced Breast Intervention
Bonnie Joe, MD, PhD, discusses how breast MRI is performed, common indications for breast MRI and advanced methods for biopsy and pre-surgical localization of tumors.
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Mammography 101
Bonnie Joe, MD explains the differences between screening and diagnostic mammography, shows evidence for screening, answers common questions about radiation risk and false positives and discusses digital breast tomosynthesis, also known as 3D mammography.
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: What's All the HYPE?
Theodore Abraham, MD, discusses hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) a genetic heart disease in which the myocardium becomes abnormally thick.
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Imaging in HCM Management: Diagnosis, Monitoring & Treatment
Theodore Abraham, MD, discusses the critical role of imaging in the diagnosis and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the world’s most common genetic heart condition.
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Awake Spinal Surgery Treatment Options
Praveen Mummaneni, MD, provides an overview of lumbar spondylolisthesis, the advantages and disadvantages of fusion and non-fusion treatment, and outcome data for specific populations, including female, elderly and obese patients.
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Awake Spinal Surgery Case Study
Praveen Mummaneni, MD, presents a lumbar spondylolisthesis case study and discusses the short- and long-term surgical outcomes for minimally invasive and open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusions.
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Burden of Stroke in Women
Vineeta Singh, MD, discusses stroke in women and the relationship between gender and symptoms, risk-factors, prevalence and mortality. Dr. Singh also examines stress and depression as a possible risk factor for stroke in women.
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Gender-Specific Differences in Stroke Clinical Presentation and Risk Factors
Vineeta Singh, MD discusses sex-specific risk factors in women – including oral contraceptive use, carotid disease and obesity -- and examines whether these risk factors are adequately assessed.
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Pregnancy Complications and Stroke Risk
Vineeta Singh, MD discusses the pregnancy- and post-pregnancy-associated risk factors for stroke and the management of these conditions.
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Gender-Specific Differences in Stroke Management and Outcome
Vineeta Singh, MD discusses gender-specific differences in primary and secondary stroke prevention, including an examination of gender-specific issues surrounding patient consent to receive an IV tissue plasminogen activator (tPA).
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Medical Management of Seizures and Epilepsy
An in-depth look at the many medication options for patients with epilepsy, addressing safety issues such as driving, the success of surgery when meds don’t work, and other options, from thalamus stimulation and RNS to ketogenic diets for kids and adults.
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Multiple Sclerosis and Other Inflammatory Disorders of the Central Nervous System
Learn the latest thinking on MS and the genetic and environmental causes, preventing nerve loss in the brain and elsewhere, the role of vitamin D and UV exposure, breakthroughs on the horizon, and other inflammatory diseases like sarcoidosis.
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Headache Update - Module 1
Our headache expert summarizes, simplifies and lists on-screen the primary headaches defined by the International Classification of Headache Disorders, including migraine, tension-type, cluster, and exertional headache, and introduces three case studies.
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Headache Update - Module 2
Here’s a guide to secondary headaches caused by trauma, infection, intercranial pressure, and more, including red flags for when to investigate further. Headaches related to vascular disorders, for example, can be dangerous and require early diagnosis.
