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Surgery: Pulmonary Thoracic
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TOS surgery saves pitchers' careers
Ribs lost, careers saved: WUSM surgeon gets athletes back on the field
July 16,
2008 --
Colorado Rockies All-Star pitcher Aaron Cook always has a spare rib for good luck. It's not part of his pregame meal. The rib came out of his own body and sits in his locker. Cook suffered from Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS), a condition in which the space between the collarbone and the uppermost rib gets cramped, pinching nerves, veins or arteries. Rather than cut his career short, he turned to WUSM surgeon Robert Thompson, one of the few doctors in the country using a surgical procedure that gets athletes back on the field.
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A model for success
First lung transplants in mice lay groundwork for preventing rejection in humans
July 11,
2007 -- Lung transplants have been performed successfully for more than 20 years in humans but never before in mice - until now. Surgeons at the School of Medicine have developed the first mouse model of lung transplantation, and they're hoping it will help explain why the success of the procedure in humans lags far behind other solid organ transplants.
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Smoking after lung cancer
More than one third of lung cancer patients resume smoking after surgery
Dec. 22,
2006 -- Smoking is a powerful addiction. A study at the School of Medicine shows that even after lung cancer surgery, some patients return to smoking within a year.
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Medicare says it will pay, but patients say 'no thanks'
New York Times
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March 3,
2006 -- To test whether federal health spending actually helps patients, Medicare has been requiring more and more of the nation's retirees to participate in clinical trials to measure the effectiveness of a growing range of treatments, before agreeing to pay for them. After seeing the clinical trial's results and the risks involved, many patients and the doctors who refer them to surgeons seemed to lose their enthusiasm for the procedure.
That first was a study of a risky but popular operation for patients with advanced emphysema, that was developed by then WUSTL surgeon Joel Cooper, who is now at U. Penn. Cooper published reports of his patients that were so promising that his medical center, Washington University, could hardly keep up with the demand. Cooper still stands by the lung volume reduction operation.
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