————- Lloyd A.  Hey, MD MS Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery Raleigh, NC USA http://www.heyclinic.com Begin forwarded message: From: Jane <@nc.rr.com>Date: December 12, 2008 2:07:37 PM ESTTo: dr. HeySubject: Update My dear, dear Dr. Hey:   Ten years ago, on December 23, 1998, I entered the post op of Duke Medical Center with fear […]

My second surgery today was a 12 yo girl, who had a progressive scoliosis and a large R rib hump. She had a large compensatory lumbar curve that corrected very well with bending films. We subsequently were able to correct her upper curve while sparing her lumbar spine for motion and activities. Her surgery went […]

This morning we helped John, a 20 yo tall college student who had a severe kyphoscoliosis with a 55 degree thoracolumbar curve, and severe hypokyphosis with actually thoracolumbar lordosis.  This hypokyphosis causes his chest to look “sunken in”, which also causes decreased lung volumes. His surgery today went quite well, but was more difficult due […]

Today we helped Alex, a 22 yo woman who I have followed for a couple years with her painful double curve scoliosis. She has spent the past 18 months in Sudan, Africa, and the pain has really gotten bad in the low back area. Today I fixed her upper and lower curve T5-L3 at Duke […]

Yesterday morning, we straightened up Matthew, who is 20 years old with a near 90 degree Scheuermann’s Kyphosis. His surgery took approximately 3 hours, and required no blood transfusions. We used the cell saver as usual, in our laminar flow operating room. I did several osteotomies to help with the correction, and used pedicle screw […]