All posts by Dr. Lloyd Hey

Anterior/Posterior L5S1 Reconstruction for L5S1 Discitis likely secondary to Dental Infection. Sep 13 2007 Hey Clinic Surgery

Wednesday at Hey Clinic we saw Nell, from New Bern in Clinic.  She had been doing well after multilevel instrumentation and fusion.  However, over the past couple of months, she developed severe lower back pain and difficulty walking.  Her Xrays showed some severe degeneration below her previous fusion at L5S1, and her CT scan showed […]

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Hey Clinic Sep 13 2007 AM Surgery: New “QUAD ROD” technique for stabilizing thoracic kyphotic fracture with history of rod breakage.

Yesterday morning, September 13th 2007, we helped a Nancy, a 75 yo woman who had a T12 severe wedge fracture above a previous fusion which caused myelopathy and severe pain. This was fixed using a laminectomy, and extension instrumentation and fusion. Postoperatively, she had trouble with rod breakages at that high load area around T12, […]

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Hey Clinic Postop Visit for Iona, who had severe kyphoscoliosis, and now stands up and walks straight as “Miracle Woman”: Video Interview 6 wks postop

Yesterday we shared some preop and postop photographs of Iona, who had major kyphoscoliosis surgery done by our Hey Clinic team at Duke Raleigh Hospital just 6 weeks ago.Iona came back for follow-up this week, and is doing just great.She tells her “before/after” story in brief video discussion with Dr. Hey at Hey Clinic. Lloyd […]

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