Posts Tagged ‘surgery’
New cataract removal technology brings safer, faster relief for eye surgery patients
An Eye on Innovation At Inova Alexandria Hospital, a new device for treating cataracts, called the Centurion Vision System, is making procedures safer and faster, says Ellen Bushmiller, Service Line Leader for the Ophthalmology Department. The technology offers improved surgical control since it adjusts to changes in eye pressure in milliseconds. It also has advanced…
Read MoreDr. David Weintritt at Inova pioneers SPY Imaging for breast cancer surgery
SPYing on Breast Cancer Inova is the first in the world to use a groundbreaking technique that reduces complications during breast reconstruction To improve outcomes in breast cancer surgery, a surgeon at the Breast Cancer Program at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital has added a new tool in the fight. Known as the SPY Portable Handheld Imaging…
Read MoreSpine Surgery Pioneers: Inova Spine Program Surgeons Teach New Techniques to International Visitors
Ronald C. Childs, MD, is a board certified orthopaedic spine surgeon and medical co-director of the Inova Spine Program at Inova Fairfax Hospital. Spinal fusion is a common surgical procedure to treat spine pain and instability by fusing together the painful vertebrae that have degenerated or are unstable. The procedure has been around for decades,…
Read MoreLocal toddler thrives after lifesaving heart surgery at Inova Children’s Hospital
A Happy Heart Faced with a difficult diagnosis, parents-to-be find comfort and expert care Now two years old, Eliza George was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot while still in utero. With the help of the Inova Children’s Hospital Fetal Care Center in Northern Virginia, her parents Ginny and Erik George were guided through the process of…
Read MoreInova Fair Oaks helps spinal surgery patient return to the golf course
Back In The Swing When Mickey Filipponi slipped on a tile floor and fell during a vacation last year, the pain was excruciating – but in some ways, the frustration was even worse. At age 68, he’d experienced back and neck issues for nearly 30 years, partially as a result of a severe car accident.…
Read MoreSpine surgery patients, doctors benefit from Inova’s new O-arm imaging tool
Seeing Is Believing O-arm Mobile Surgical Imaging System helps lessen radiation exposure and improve spine surgery results In February, Inova Mount Vernon Hospital (IMVH) added a new element to their award-winning surgical program: a spine surgery imaging system for the operating room called the O-arm. Manufactured by Medtronic, the O-arm is the gold standard of intraoperative spinal imaging…
Read MoreFormer Inova Doctor Receives First Brain Surgery at Inova Loudoun Hospital
Brains at Work This former Inova physician was diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) and received life-altering brain surgery at Inova Loudoun Hospital To say that Gregory Bentz, MD, PhD, was in great health at age 67 is an understatement. An avid runner, the retired Inova physician spent his days training for his 10th marathon. That…
Read MoreSpinal deformity corrective surgery gives new life to Northern Virginia resident
Patricia Keller had nearly given up hope that she would ever be able to walk normally again. The 70-year-old had been through four spinal surgeries over the course of a decade, and the last had left her worse off than she’d ever been. Unable to stand without support, she was hunched over a walker just…
Read MoreA Tale of Two Valves: Why Is Surgery Still the Preferred Treatment for Mitral Valve Disease?
Shahram Yazdani, MD, is an interventional cardiologist at the Inova Heart and Vascular Institute. He is board certified in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology. Read Dr. Yazdani’s profile. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has become a mainstream treatment for aortic valve stenosis, a disease that affects the heart’s aortic valve. As the technique has grown…
Read MoreInova Loudoun Hospital named national education and training epicenter for da Vinci robotic-assisted surgical technology
Innovation at its Best Inova Loudoun Hospital was recently named a national education and training epicenter for surgeons using da Vinci® robotic-assisted surgical technology. The program is one of fewer than 20 general surgery programs nationwide given the distinction. In a little more than a decade, robotic surgery has become the standard of care for…
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