FOCUSING ON YOU

Ten years ago, Jack Edwards received a life-changing phone call.

Ignacio Escallon, an avid cyclist, knew something was wrong when he felt unusually tired.

This holistic approach includes dieticians and exercise physiologists who tailor personalized treatment plans based on a patient’s specific needs.

Dr. Ellen Koo is an ophthalmologist and LASIK specialist at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Palm Beach Gardens. For more information about LASIK surgery, click here or visit the UHealth blog.

Multiple myeloma is the second most common blood cancer in adults. World-renowned myeloma researcher, Dr. Ola Landgren, is bringing his expertise directly to patients as the new Chief of Sylvester’s myeloma program. He explains how innovative new therapies are prolonging the lives of patients who are thriving like never before. Inas Elattar is one of those patients.

For more information about Dr. Lamelas and his minimally invasive heart procedure, click here or visit the UHealth blog. He needed surgery to replace a failing heart valve and went to see UHealth cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Joseph Lamelas, who pioneered a minimally invasive heart procedure. Ad“Why would someone need reoperative minimally invasive cardiac surgery?” asks Focusing on You anchor Pam Giganti. And performing the operation through a minimally invasive approach has many benefits,” Dr. Lamelas says. Instead of open surgery where the sternum is cracked to access the heart, Dr. Lamelas was able to perform the reoperative minimally invasive procedure on Rene to replace the infected valve.

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Dr. Michael Wang is chief of neurosurgery at the University of Miami Health System. For more information on outpatient spinal surgery at UHealth, call 305-243-6946 or visit the UHealth health news blog. After pain management treatments failed to help, she was referred to Dr. Michael Wang, chief of neurosurgery at UHealth, the University of Miami Health System. For more stories like this one, visit YouTube channels for UHealth, the University of Miami Health System. Above content provided by UHealth, the University of Miami Health System

Dr. Victor Hugo Hernandez is an orthopedic surgeon at University of Miami Health System. For more information on whole joint replacement surgery at UHealth, call 305-243-3000 or visit the UHealth health news blog. In addition to knee replacement, hip replacement surgery is also performed as an outpatient procedure at UHealth. For more stories like this one, visit YouTube channels for UHealth, the University of Miami Health System. Above content provided by UHealth, the University of Miami Health System

Dr. Dushyantha Jayaweera is a physician-researcher at University of Miami Health System. COVID-19 CLINICAL TRIALAs the work continues to find a vaccine for COVID-19, researchers at the University of Miami Health System are hopeful an anti-inflammatory drug may help hospitalized patients better recover from the disease. According to Dr. Jayaweera, Aviptadil has been widely studied and is considered safe for treating some chronic pulmonary diseases. For more stories like this one, visit YouTube channels for UHealth, the University of Miami Health System. Above content provided by UHealth, the University of Miami Health System