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Complex Spine Surgery: Secrets of Successful Closure
Dr. Scott Hansen discusses techniques, options and strategies to stabilize soft tissues and prevent post-op wound complications, even in the most challenging cases.
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Optimize Spinal Surgery Outcomes Through Teamwork
Vascular surgeon Dr. Charles Eichler discusses UCSF’s success with including vascular surgeons in lumbar fusion procedures and finding the least invasive approach for each patient.
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2019-20 Referral Services Guide
UCSF Health is recognized throughout the world for innovative treatments, advanced technology, collaboration among clinicians and scientists, and a highly compassionate team of patient care providers.
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Oral Dysplasia Program
Oral dysplasia patients at UCSF benefit from an internationally recognized team of multidisciplinary experts with the highest level of expertise in this difficult-to-manage and often unpredictable disease.
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Considerations for Deformity Surgery in the Young Adult
In this presentation Lionel N. Metz, MD, will discuss considerations for the young adult deformity patient, case examples, common pitfalls and modes of failure, and causes of pain after adult reconstruction.
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Adrenal Tumors and Posterior Retroperitoneoscopic Adrenalectomy (PRA): A Case Study
Sanziana Roman, MD, an endocrine surgeon, discusses a patient’s treatment for a tumor in the retroperitoneum, near the adrenal gland.
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How to Do a Knee Injection
Carlin Senter, MD, and Elizabeth Marshall, MD, discuss how to properly perform a knee injection, focusing on the supplies needed and the proper anatomic landmarks, including a discussion of both the anterior and lateral joint lines approaches for injection.
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Meniscus: Intrasubstance Tear
Nicholas Colyvas, MD, presents a case study of 28-year-old hiker and cyclist who sustained an intrasubstance tear in her medial meniscus.
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Medial Meniscus Root Tear with Bone Fragment: Repair Technique
Nicholas Colyvas, MD, presents the arthroscopic repair technique for a 36-year-old male police officer with a medial meniscus root tear with a bone fragment.
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How to Do a Subacromial Shoulder Injection
Carlin Senter, MD, and Elizabeth Marshall, MD, discuss how to perform a subacromial shoulder injection, focusing on the supplies needed and the proper anatomic landmarks, including the advantages of both the posterior and lateral approaches for injection.
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Limb Preservation for Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Michael S. Conte, MD, provides an overview of the various noncardiac and extracranial blood vessel conditions treated by the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery.
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Redefining Sudden Cardiac Death
Zian H. Tseng, MD, discusses the conclusions of the UCSF Prospective Countywide Surveillance and Autopsy Characterization of Sudden Cardiac Death (POST SCD) Study.
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Minimally-Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery
Tobias Deuse, MD, discusses the advantages of minimally invasive approaches for the treatment of mitral valve insufficiency.
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Mostly Benign, Sometimes Lethal
Theodore Abraham, MD, discusses hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a common inherited heart disease that is usually benign, but can be fatal in up to 10 percent of cases.
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Overview of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing
Charles Chiu, MD, PhD, provides an overview of metagenomics next-generation sequencing (mNGS), a clinical test he and his UCSF colleagues have developed that allows millions of DNA sequences to be decoded from a single clinical sample.
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Clinical UCSF mNGS Assay for Diagnosis of Neurological Infections
Despite extensive conventional testing, acute neurological illness in hospitalized patients is difficult to diagnose. Charles Chiu, MD, PhD, discusses an mNGS test that identifies pathogens causing neurological infections from cerebrospinal fluid and how a recent multi-hospital study has demonstrated the clinical utility of this test.
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Clinical Case Reports and New mNGS-Based Technologies
Charles Chiu, MD, PhD, discusses cases where mNGS testing saved the life of a patient with undiagnosed neuroleptospirosis, and spared another patient from a potentially unnecessary liver transplant.
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Interstitial Lung Disease Program
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) patients at UCSF benefit from an internationally recognized team of ILD experts with the highest level of expertise in this rare and difficult-to-diagnose disease.
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UCSF Center for Next-Gen Precision Diagnostics
UCSF was the first in the world to provide metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) as a clinical test for diagnosis of neurological infections.
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Center for Limb Preservation and Diabetic Foot
The first and only dedicated amputation-prevention center in the Bay Area
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Pancreas Center
Novel therapeutics and state-of-the-art surgical techniques combined with an array of support services for patients
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Approaches to Hematologic Cancers
Jeffrey Wolf, MD, director of the Myeloma Program at UCSF Health, discusses the traditional approaches to hematologic cancers.
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Approach to the Older Patient with Spinal Disorders: Surgery
Shane Burch, MD, MS, FRCSC, discusses surgical approaches for patients with spinal disorders including the various options to achieve decompression and realignment, stabilizing the patient and obtaining a fusion. The rationales behind these choices are also discussed.
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Approach to the Older Patient with Spinal Disorders: Diagnosis
Shane Burch, MD, MS, FRCSC, presents case examples of older patients with spinal disorders and focuses on approaches that are integral at arriving at an accurate diagnosis: patient history, physical examination and imaging, including X-ray, CT and MRI.
