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CLINICAL CARE SERVICES
Surgery – Adults and Children
- Surgical techniques in the management of ventral, incisional, and inguinal hernias – including both open and laparoscopic
- Cholecystectomy and Appendectomy – both open and laparoscopic
- Laparoscopic colectomy and splenectomy
- Exploratory laparotomy
- Debridement procedures
- Central line, venous access, and port placements
- Gastrostomy placement
Trauma/Burn/Plastics
- Specialty care for complex traumatic injury both adult and children – Level I Trauma Center with Pediatric commitment
- Surgery of complex soft tissue infection such as necrotizing fasciitis
- Burn Treatment Center verified by the American Burn Association and the American College of Surgeons
- Care for pediatric and adult patients with electrical, chemical, thermal, scalding, frostbite and inhalation injuries from point of initial injury to discharge and rehabilitation
- Burn treatment includes specialized monitoring and bathing equipment as well as a hydrotherapy facility
- Reconstructive breast surgery including reconstruction of congenital and acquired breast deformities with breast implants with or without myocutaneous flap coverage
- Care and reconstruction of chronic non-healing wounds, including diabetic wounds
- Breast reconstruction
- Breast reduction for gynecomastia
- Panniculectomy and abdominoplasty for morbid obesity
- Cosmetic surgery including facelift, blepharoplasty and rhinoplasty
Gastroenterology
- Surgical management of Crohn’s disease
- Evaluation and treatment of fecal incontinence and defecation disorders
- Specialized continence preserving procedures such as proctectomy with coloanal anastomosis, proctocolectomy with ileoanal anastomosis, including removal of the entire colon and rectum with construction of a new rectum out of the small intestine
- Diagnostic services including sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, and manometry for evaluation of complicated anorectal problems as well as inflammatory bowel disease
- Treatment of anorectal disease, including anal fistulas, fissures, condylomas, and hemorrhoids
- Thoracoscopic esophageal surgery including Heller myotomy for achalasia, total esophageal myotomy for diffuse esophageal spasm, thoracoscopic Nissen fundoplication, esophagectomy for cancer, thoracoscopic vagotomy for recurrent ulceration, thoracoscopic esophageal diverticulectomy for pulsion diverticulum
- Blue Distinction Center for Bariatric Surgery
- Obesity Surgery includes gastric bypass operation and biliopancreatic diversion most often done laparoscopically
- Endoscopic procedures including laser ablation for palliation of esophageal cancers
- Ablation of Barrett’s mucosa to eliminate Barrett’s esophagus
- Multidisciplinary treatment of esophageal cancer
- Splanchnic nerve resection for pain from chronic pancreatitis
- Laparoscopic abdominal surgery to treat familial polyposis
Oncology
- Sentinel node biopsy for melanoma and breast cancer
- Multidisciplinary services for patients with benign and malignant breast problems seen in the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Hepatic resection
- Chemoembolization for hepatic tumors
- Ablation of multiple metastatic lesions to the liver
- Surgical management of colorectal cancers
- Management of pancreatic cancer
- Removal of abdominal tumors
Endocrinology
- Laparoscopic adrenalectomy and removal of adrenal tumors.
- Pre-operative radiological studies for localization of tumors of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and pancreas
- Minimally invasive surgery for the removal of thyroid and parathyroid tumors with intraoperative PTH assays
Vascular Surgery
- Non-invasive vascular diagnosis
- Endovascular surgery/angioplasty/stenting/atherectomy/aortic pathology
- Cerebral revascularization and carotid endarterectomy
- Treatment of varicose veins
- Treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome
- Treatment of upper extremity vascular disease
- Complex and distal lower extremity vascularization
- Repair of infrarenal and complex abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Surgery for dialysis access
- Management of patients with peripheral vascular disease
Transplant Surgery
- Liver transplantation for both adults and pediatrics
- Pancreas transplantation – pre-uremic and sequential
- Living related, unrelated, and cadaveric renal transplantation for adults and children
- Multiorgan transplantation including renal/pancreas, liver/heart, liver/renal
- Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy
- Multidisciplinary team to manage solid organ transplant patients
Pediatric Surgery
- Reconstruction of the esophagus in patients with esophageal atresia
- Surgical treatment in children with imperforate anus through functional reconstruction
- Orchiopexy
- VATS procedure
- Pyloromyotomies
- Malrotation Ladd’s procedure
- Meconium ileus
- Nuss procedure – minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum
- Surgical treatment of biliary atresia utilizing the “Kasai Procedure”
- Treatment of Hirschsprung’s disease through surgical removal and correction of the rectum
- Surgical procedure developed at the UIHC to elongate the bowel for the management of short gut syndrome
- Excision of ovarian cysts
- Repair of abdominal wall defects
- Excision of teratomas
- Cecostomies
- Aortopexy
- Cloacal extrophy reconstruction
- Excision of urachal cysts
- Duodenal and colon atresia repair
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia repair
- Robotic surgery used for the following procedures:
- Heller myotomies
- Nissen fundoplications
- Splenectomies
- Cholecystectomies
- Adrenalectomies
- Small bowel resections for Meckel’s diverticulum, Crohn’s disease and duplications
- Colon resection
- Total proctocolectomy with pull-through for ulcerative colitis
- Mesenteric cyst resection
- Ovarian teratoma resection
- Neuroblastoma resection
- Resection of CCAM, sequestration, and bronchogenic cysts
- Mediastinal tumor resections
- Congential diaphragmatic hernia repair
- Resection of choledochal cysts
- Kasei portoenterostomy
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