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And this is just a tiny part of a wholesale re-imagining
of medicine.
Carilion is out front in a number of these exotic areas.
Specifically:
* With " fenestrated-endovascular aortic repairs "
surgeons are able to customize grafts for a patient's
individual branching arteries. Few systems in the
country have this service. Dr. Joshua Adams does
the procedure at Carilion.
* Interventional gastroenterologists perform a lot of
minimally invasive procedures using the gastrointestinal
tract. For example, early-stage esophagus
cancer can be removed through a scope with no
incision. For advanced esophagus cancer, physicians
can place a large stent across the tumor
blockage, allowing patients to swallow and giving
chemo and radiation time to work.
* Carilion has teamed up with DroneUp, a leading
autonomous drone delivery provider headquartered
in Virginia Beach, to investigate how drones
could be used to improve health care delivery in
the Commonwealth.
Author Debbie Seagle of Radford has had two surgeries
for brain aneurysms in the past few years, the first
saving her life (and resulting in six weeks' hospitalization)
and the second preventing the aneurysm from forming
(overnight in the hospital). The blood vessels were
leaking in the first instance, causing intense pain, she
says, and she had surgery at the University of Virginia
Hospital in Charlottesville, just hours ahead of checking
out permanently.
Her physician, Dr. Mary Jensen, entered her body
through a vein at the top of her thigh, proceeded through
the heart, the back of the eye and into the brain, where
she wrapped the leaking vessel with drops of titanium
and stopped the bleeding. There obviously is no scar on
her scalp and the skull remains intact.
Two years ago, a potential aneurysm was detected, and
quick robotic surgery took care of the problem. Jensen
" showed me what she did on a 3D computer, and I was
like, 'Wow!' " says Seagle. She was so impressed that she
dedicated a chapter in her recent memoir, " Coffee Cups
and Wine Glasses, " to the surgeries.
LewisGale vascular surgeon Dr. James Taylor speaks
of a " trans aortic valve procedure where the valve is not
opening properly; we now go through the groin, and
don't put the patient all way to sleep. We put the valve
in the same way you would have a stint put in. The procedure
takes an hour and a half, and the patient goes
home the next day. "
Taylor explains an esophagectomy thusly: There is one
robot, two consoles, two physicians working together.
" With the robot we get right in there and move the
Ribbon-cutting ceremony at
LewisGale Alleghany for a new
nuclear medicine machine.
LewisGale's Dr. James Taylor:
" We now go through the groin,
and don't put the patient all
way to sleep. "
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