Today, Katie, our “pre-Med” intern, who is shadowing me this week, caught a glimpse of what it was like for Heather’s parents to talk to Dr. Hey immediately after Heather’s scoliosis surgery today.After several years of scoliosis tracking, then bracing, then awaiting surgery — how will Heather’s parents respond when they see the new X-Ray […]
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Heather’s Scoliosis Surgery December 20 2007 with Dr. Lloyd Hey
Heather got here early this morning to Duke Raleigh Hospital, with her whole family for her scoliosis surgery. Heather is 17, and was treated in a night brace for a year and a half, but her double curve scoliosis continued to progress. Her surgery today went very well. Her fusion is from T4-L3. Correction was […]
14 yo Chelsea has her scoliosis surgery today with Dr. Hey, Hey Clinic
We fixed Chelsea’s right thoracic scoliosis this morning, after taking a bunch of pictures of Chelsea with her family, and many members of our scoliosis team, including Ruth, who does a great job with our evoked potential monitoring. Her surgery took just under 3 hours, and the estimated blood loss (EBL) was 600 cc, with […]
Layla, 14 yo girl goes home from hospital today, postop day #2 after scoliosis surgery with Dr. Hey, Hey Clinic
Layla had her scoliosis surgery Monday this week, and got up quickly with physical therapy yesterday, and met all of her goals to go home today! She got her height checked today by the physical therapist, and she is now almost 2 inches taller (1.75 inches). Her posture looks wonderful, and her postoperative X-Ray show […]
2 14 yo girls having scoliosis surgery 50 years (and 1 day!) apart. Exploring 50 yo time capsule of non-instrumented fusion.
Yesterday I operated on a lovely young lady who had a 50 degree thoracolumbar scoliosis with severe imbalance. Today I did a complex spinal reconstruction on a 64 yo woman, who had a non-instrumented spinal fusion done 50 years ago, when she was 14, and now had severe collapse with an almost 90 degree kyphoscoliosis […]