For intractable epilepsy in children with this genetic disorder, successful surgery hinges on identifying the culprit tuber and ensuring resection won’t cause new deficits. Here’s why a multispecialty program makes sense.
Cleveland Clinic Florida Launches Heart Transplant Program
Cleveland Clinic Florida has hired Cedric Sheffield, MD, as Surgical Director of its new, UNOS-approved adult heart transplant program.
Finding Success with a Nontraditional Approach to Opiate Dependence
A hybrid approach pairing office-based Suboxone-assisted treatment with variations on traditional inpatient care yields recovery rates from opiate addiction that compare well with top rates in the literature.
When Designing a Cancer Facility, Patient Outcomes Come First
A look at Cleveland Clinic’s future 377,000-square-foot cancer building.
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Leaders Are Out of the Office On the Floors
Monthly rounding brings nursing leaders and other executives face to face with frontline staff and patients. Since rounding has been implemented many patient care issues have been addressed.
Digital Technology Keeps Nurses in the Know
Nurses and other caregivers at South Pointe Hospital are kept up to date on departmental news with digital signs. Monitors in the break room scroll useful information on staffing, education and more.
Newly Described Disease Entity: NOD2-associated Autoinflammatory Disease
Newly described entity NAID involves multiple organs. All patients to date have been white, and there is a slight female predominance. Common manifestations include flu-like symptoms, weight loss and fatigue.
How Care Paths Can Foster Consistent, Evidence-Based Practice in Total Joint Arthroplasty
Learn why our orthopaedic surgeons have embraced care paths for total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty. Read about the clinical and economic impacts.
Reduced Levels of Radiation Exposure in Pediatric Heart Disease Patients is Possible
Cleveland Clinic Children’s cardiologists are curbing patients’ radiation exposure by shortening procedure times, adopting leading-edge equipment and deploying new techniques that promote low- or no-radiation testing
Is Giant Cell Arteritis Related to Takayasu’s Arteritis?
Giant cell arteritis and Takayasu’s arteritis may not be separate diseases but rather skewed phenotypes of a single disease, influenced by genetics, age-related structural changes, immunologic senescence and environment.