News from the Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery
Few medical centers perform this procedure and even fewer offer training. To do so, surgeons need skills in liver resection and live-donor liver implantation surgeries, says hepatobiliary surgeon Christopher Shubert.
Johns Hopkins cardiac surgeons publish studies on the use of arterial grafts during coronary bypass, as well as a new surgical approach for mitral valve regurgitation.
Lilah Morris-Wiseman aims to expand the endocrine surgery program and Comprehensive Adrenal Center. Her interests include inherited endocrine diseases and thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgical diseases.
With a $40M grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dorry Segev, William Werbel and colleagues aim to better understand immune response, reduction of immunosuppression and the safety of mixing vaccine types.
Johns Hopkins surgeons offer the full spectrum of surgical treatments for patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
During the pandemic, a team of breast surgeons and plastic and reconstructive surgeons developed adaptive guidelines to continue standards of care for patients throughout the Johns Hopkins Health System.
At the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, inpatient mortality rates have been under 5%, compared with 20% or higher reported nationally.
Johns Hopkins is the highest-volume center in the United States for the condition, with a multidisciplinary team devoted solely to monitoring and treatment.
